, 1888-03-31
THE STRIKE.
Men on the St. Paul Road Stop
Work.
The Burlington Aiming Its
Employees.
Particulars of the Rich Hill
Horror.
The sltuat1on on the ST. PauI

The Situation on the st. Paul.
CHICAGO, March 3O.-The st. Paul
yard men who started to go to work last
night at 10 o'clock, had but begun to get
their engines started when a message
came to the Western avenue round house
that all the men should wait until Assist
ant Superintendent Earling had seen
them before resuming work. Earling
stated the case briefly to the men as he
understood it, and her said I'VE have
submitted to many acts that We have con-
sldered uniustitiable on your part. This
afternoon men in our employ deliberately
derailed and wrecked a plumber of cars
that are u property We will consent
to overlook this and Jon can go to work,
but the first thing that is done will be to
replace those cars upon the track"
This the men positively refused to do,
as the cars were pulled by & 20" engine.
The strikers hung around for awhile, and
one by one ven home, and the strike was
on. The men who struck last night en-
braced twenty-four switching crews a
total of 100 men. The strikers held a
big meeting in a hall adjacent to the round
house, lasting until late this morning.
They were enthusiastic in the position
they have taken.
The switchmen, engineers and firemen
Of the st. Paul road who struck yester-
day assembled at the yards this morning,
but none of them went to work. They
are ~reticent and refuse to talk of their
action or outline their demands, but were
unanimous not to return to work.
Superintendent Collins SAID that the
company would at once begin prepare
tions to secure new men to take the places
vacated by the strikers.
The riot of yesterday had its effect on
the new switchmen in the employ of the
Burlington. Only those whose duties
kept them within the %" yards were
on duty this morning. Those delegated
to work along the tracks between differ
ent points refused to go to work unless
given arms to defend themselves if set
upon by strikers. Ninety-eight switch
men from the Reading road arrived last
night. They were warned by the strikers
not to go to work on the 90" and a
quarrel ensued, in which the Reading
men drew revolvers and declared they
would protect themselves if interfered
with. This morning they were escorted
to the %" yards by Pinkerton men.
Twenty seven more switchmen arrived
this morning.
Switchman Quirk. who figured SO
largely in the St. Paul riot Yesterday and
was arrested for beating a 90" engineer,
was dismissed this morning with So and
costs. A %" fireman named Thomas
was knocked senseless this morning by a
coupling pin thrown by a switchman on a
Panhandle engine. Otherwise there has
been no serious trouble on account of the
strike to-day.
The force of armed men at the Bur-
llngton yards was increased to-day by fifty
and the new engineers and fremen were
provided with arms also to a large extent,
the rest being promised arms at once.
At the headquarters of the brotherhood
TINS evening an extension of the strike to
the Fort Wayne line was considered as
among the possibilities of the failure, but
whether as a result of the meeting this
afternoon wouldn't be stated. The an
nouncement was made authoritatively
that the brotherhood on the Milwaukee &
81. Paul road from Chicago to Savannah,
Ills and Milwaukee had left their en-
glnes and would stay out till the 20"
trouble was settled,
MILWAUKEE, March 80. = Manager
Miller of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul road this morning said: There is
no truth in the statement of the switch
men at Chicago that the st. Paul compa-
nv had been secretly aiding the Burling-
ton company. The trouble is that the
Chicago switchmen have combined to
make a thorough boycottagainst the 20"
company, and our men are in sympathy
with the movement. Our men refused
to handle some new cars brought to us by
the Burlington from the factory of the
Wells, French company, which is on the
Burlington road. We told the men that
if they did not handle. these cars they
could not handle anything, and we pro-
pose to maintain that position. No other
point will be affected. The freight trains
held in this city this morning will be sent
out before night. We are using our road
men in the places of the striking switch
men, and they will stay there until we
can get new gangs. As the strike &C.
CURED only last evening We have been
able to make no permanent arrangements
as yet. We will continue to receive and
deliver freight at Chicago, but will re-
quest terminal agents to ease up a little
on us for a few days. We do not appre-
bend any serious trouble and we are not
~fretting much over the matter"
There are no freight trains moving on
the Chicago division of the st. Paul road
this morning.