Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-29

lion, although it has done wrong in
isolating itself on labor masters. In,
their present strike the trades unions are
with them"
WHAT ARTHUR SAYS.
CHICAGO, ILL Feb. % Chief Arthur
Of the Brotbt rnood OF Locomotive En-
gineers and Mr.. Sargent Of the Firemen's
Brotherhood are still in the city. Arthur
said the striking engineers and fremen
were q solid body, and would hold to-
gether to the end of the fight. "The pub
LEGATION by General Manager Stone," he
said, "of all the propositions offered by
the men might mislesd the public. We
were willing to discuss these propo-
sitions one by one, and In Gaze
we failed to convince Mr.. Stone
that they were Just and fair we would
have made concessions. The strike did
not occur because the schedule we offered
was not adopted, but because when the
question Of wages was reached Mr.. Stone
refused to do anything st all. The fight
is purely question Of wages. We re-
coded from our first proposition and
offared to accept 81 cents, which Mr..
Stone refused In most positive msnner.
He made no proposition to US At all and
the fight now 10 purely on the question OF
pay"
Arthur was asked what attitude ne ex-
pected the Knights of Labor to assume
toward the engineers during the strike.
81 don't see," he said, "Why the
knights would be hostile to the brother
hood engineers, and have no informs
ton that they will try to assist the COM
pany in any way"
at is claimed you sent men to take the
place Of the Reading strikers"
"That is lie. l don't know what indi.
viduel members OF the brotherhood may
have done, but l never interfered in any
way with any strike OF the Knights OF
Labor. l would not do it. At the time
of the Missouri Pacific strike simply
told the brotherhood engineers that we
had q contract with the company and to
keep out Of the strike. II contract
means anything at all then We pursued
the right course"
THE FIRST ACCIDENT
to occur following the commencement Of
the strike took place last evening 81
Nsperville, Ill. No one was killed, bu
the results could hardly be called trifiihg
Six men were more or less injured.
ABOUT CARRYING THE MAILS.
CHICAGO, III, Feb. 2s.-Last evening
Assistant Superintendent Rowland Of tn,
Burlington route, and Superintendent o
Mails Troy from the postoff1ce, called OF
Chief Engineer Arthur at his hotel.
| 'I have come for information" sait
Mr.. Rowland, addressing Mr.. Arthur
81 have Understood from Mr.. Stone tina
no objection would be raised by you
men to taking out the fast mail train
which leaves at 9 q. m, to.mor
row provided 1t contained moth
ing but mail. 1 am now told by tht
men that they will not take the train on
without orders from you or 8 United
States marshal What are the facts?"
"Our position is this" replied MIR. Ar
! thur. ave will offer no obstruction Il
the carrying of mails, and any mail Ell
route to the city We should bring it in
provided the passenger coaches were Gu
of But We are under no obligations tt
start mail from the center of distribution
The % Company has q contract will
the government for carrying mail. LIE
them carry 1t or forfeit their contract
Wei, turning to the postC flee officials
"stand ready to settle the trouble on 1
fair and equitable basis. You snoulC
bring such influence to bear on the com
panY as to bring about its settlement
We cannot take out a mail train, gentle
men,"
every we'll" responded Mr.. Rowland
81 had understood and think Mr.. STONE
understood from Mr.. Hogue Of the griev
ance committee, that the mail service
would be handled and II that were so
wanted to avail myself of that advantage
81 may not have made myself eDtirel.
clear to Mr.. Stone," said Mr.. Hogue, "bu
what meant to say is just what Mr.
| Arthur has said.n