The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-04-14
The ST. PAUL TIED up.


Brakpmen Quit Work-Ths Pan. Hsndls
Men to Follow Suit--Ths Situation on
Other Roads Decidedly Tioklish-Mors
Violence In Chicago-ChIcf Arthur Goes
East.
CHICAGO, March Stat IL o'clock last
night general tie.up was inaugurated on
the Milwaukee 4 St Paul road Not an en-
gine nor car will be moved to-day by union
men, The engineers, firemen, sWitchmen
and brakemen have all been ordered out
Only the freight and switch engines were
affected by the strike yesterday, while the
passenger trains were running regularly as
usual. To-day all work, even on the pas
senger trains, will be stopped, and it is a
question whether the road will be for some
time in position to carry on its mail serv-
ice.
This decisive move was the result OF a
meeting held at Carr's Hall, corner of Lake
and Wood streets, last night The hall was
packed. Nearly all the local en-
gineers, tiremen, switchmen ana brake
men of the St. Paul road, together with
representatives from all the other roads
leading into Chicago, were present The
temper OF the men was wrought up to the
boiling point and several very fiery speeches
were made There seems to be perfect I'M
derstanding between the various branches
represented, and no one after hear
ing the speeches could have any
possible doubt that movement
exists which threatens to tie up the roads in
Chicago Delegates from the various roads
announced their determination to stand by
the strikers A delegate from the PAN
Handle road said that a meeting of
the Pam Handle SwitChmcn had boon held
and that it had been decided to call
! III or
morning No statement of the grievances
OF the men was made. and the only infer
ence that could be drawn from the speak
er's remarks was that sympathy for the Bur-
llngton and st. Paul men was the real
cause of the threatened strike The Pam
Handle men decided to remain on duty I'M
til z O'Clock this morning in order to clean
up the yards At that hour they will, it is
declared, all go out
The st. Paul officials were as determined
| as those of the Burlington yesterday in de-
claring themselves masters OF their own
property. The striking St Paul switchmen
and engineers were spoken of in
bitter terms by the officials, who
had already conceded to them every
thing out OF which a grievance could
be constructed Their offers to return to
work were rejected unless they made rep
|
day, and this the men refused during yes
terday to do.
A train Of coaches, mail, baggage and ex-
press cars drawn by Chicago, Milwaukee
& St Paul switch engine was discovered to
be on fire about II o'clock last night The
mail car and a Luggage car were consumed
before the flames could be extinguished.
The fire when discovered was in the entry
way on the platform of the mail car: just
as the train was stopped an explosion oc-
| Cured on the platform of the mail car. Lut
the cause of the explosion could not be as
certained. The railroad men are OF the
opinion that the fire was an incendiary one,
but were very reticent in the matter
A train of thirty three stock cars left the
90" yards at Western avenue for the Stock
Yards at 8 o'clock yesterday, with engine
1876 in front and engine 344 in the rear:
There were fourteen Pinkerton men
on board in command of Oscar
w. West The train proceeded with
ont difficulty until Center avenue was
reached. At this point engine 800, of the
o. Chicago, St Louis & Pit sburgh, was passed
AS the engine in the rear of the 60" train
was passing this engine brakeman on the
latter picked up two coupling pins and threw
them at the crew OF the 60" engine One
of them struck ". W. Thomas, the fireman,
in the right eye He fell senseless on the
floor OF the cab with an ugly cut, about
three inches long and half an inch deep
across the eye He was taken TO the Stock
Yards, where he received medical attend
ance. ..... -...
Other trains which entered the Stock
| Yards later were also stoned, but the train
hands escaped serious injuries. All the
trains moved on the 90" tracks during the
day were heavily guarded by Pinkerton
| men.
The St Paul Company yesterday issued a
circular announcing it's refusal to receive,
via it's Chicago terminus, freight for points
reached directly or Indirectly by it's lines or
for switching on it's system in or around
Chicago.
Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of En-
gineers, left Chicago for Cleveland last
evening, and the radical members of the
organization claim that he will not
return, but will send in his resigna-
tion as the chief otficef of that organiza-
ton and thus escape any unpleasant con-
nection with the laWless events which may
follow the combination of the sw1tchmen
and the engineers Chief Arthur, however.
evasiyely denied this, and claimed that pri-
vate business demanded his attention.
He stated, however, that during his stay
in Cleveland he would call special
meeting of the Executive Committee of
the Brotherhood to consider the entire
situation. He disclaimed any knowl-
edge of the action of the st Paul men, and
said that as the men acted as individuals
they could not expect, nor would they re-
ceive, a dollar of assistance from the Broth
erhood He also stated that not dollar of
Brotherhood money would be applied to
assist the switchmen now on strike and
that SO far as he knew no combination
of general railroad employees was in
contemplation. He said the company
could probably keep up this .expen-
sive battle as long as the stockholders
would permit it. but he knew that the men
would hold out rs long as the company did.
He says that at the proper time he will be
prepared to prove the utter inccmpetency
OF a large number of men now running en-
gines on the Burlington road
The Advisory Committee of the Brother
hood, consisting of A. G. Dunn, W. B.
Huskey, A. W. Logan and W. R. Handy,
adopted resolutions yesterday expressing
their confidence in Chief Arthur and
their explicit faith in his Judgment
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