, 1888-03-04
The Strike.

CHICAGO, March 3.-The meeting on
Monday Of the chairmen of the grievance
committees is looked forward to with
great anxiety by both the Burlington Off
cials and the brotherhood officers. Upon
the outcome of this meeting depends the
future course of Chief Arthur. Should
a reasonable excuse be found for it on
any one of the Western roads the broth
erhood men will probably be called out.
1t is believed by many that every West
ern road is liable to render a strict neu-
tralty or to have its men taken off by
Tuesday morning. Officers of the broth
erhood now admit that nothing s~atisfac-
tory will come of their order to the en-.
gineers and firemen of the Reading road
to quit work, and dispatches from the
East this morning confirm the belief.
Only about thirty of the Reading men
were induced to go back to their homes.
At the Burlington offices it was not
thought the brotherhood would carry out
their threat to call off the engineers and
iremen on other Western roads.
Their object" said one official, ''is to
endeavor to bring such pressure from the
public and other roads to bear on US that
it wilLcompel us to accede to their de-
mands. We have made no attempt to
make through freight and will not at
TEMPT to do so until we have completely
modified our local traffic. Then we will
receive and handle through freight, and
should any attempt be made to cut us off
from accommodation by connecting lines
we will try what virtue there is in the in
terstate law. We can compel
other roads to handle our cars, or we can
make them pay S., 900 for every car they
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almost to our usual capacity on the Iowa,
Nebraska and Missouri lines, and will have
our line service complete next week. The
fight on other roads by the brotherhood
will be made solely on account of freight
traffic"
There was an apparent change to-day
in passenger service of the Burlington
road and suburban trains arrived and left
on time. Other trains which came in were
the ones which have been running for
several days. An official of the company
said that through passenger business
had not as yet being either solicited or re-
ceived.
A notice was issued this evening that
| the company's freight houses in this city
| will be opened on Monday for the recep-
ton of merchandise for stations in Him
OILS only, and 1t is desired hat only ship
ments for points not reached by any other
road be delivered. The notice y I'VE
expect to make reasonable prompt deliy-
cry, but the time will not be so good as
ordinarily.
Chiefs Arthur and Sargent are not very
hopeful of any good coming from their
request to the brotherhood on the Read
ing road to step out. They are confident,
however, that there are not enough idle
engineers in the East to materially assist
the Burlington and that road will arrive
at the limit of its resources within a few
days. They expressed the belief this
! evening that they hold the whip hand on
the strike, but do not expect that there
| will be many developments until Monday,
when the chairmen of the various griev-
ance committees get together.
To keep up the spirits of the strikers a
circular letter was sent out to-day signed
by Arthur and Sargent, complimenting
the men on their firm stand and devotion
to principle and duty and expressing the
firm belief that their cause will triumph.
Mr.. Arthur was this evening handed a
copy of a telegram which was sent this
afternoon by twelve Reading engineers to
saying: I'VE are on our way back. Stop
the boys" Grand Master Sargentshowed
| to the Associated Press reporter kilograms
| from many Western points showing that
| the men are standing firm and are conf.
dent of ultimate victory.
Chief Engineer Arthur had not heard
of the tragedy at Brookfeld, Mo-, in
| which Bridge Foreman Bostwicke fatally
shot John Roxy, a brotherhood engineer,
until shown an Associated Press dispatch
| tonight. When it was read to him Mr..
| Arthur seemed affrighted, his eyes dropped
| TO the floor and after a minutes study he
said:
Il am sorry; deeply sorry. 1 depre-
| Gated violence of any sort, for there is
nothing to be gained by it. The %instruc-
tons given to our agents who left head
quarters for outlying points were to par
| ticularly request our men to stay away
| from the company's property so that Just
| such trouble as this would be avoided.
This was supplemented by kilograms of
the same tenor to the brotherhood on the
| Burlington system. Icannot discuss the
case further, for | have received no off
cial advices about it.
At A d. m. q special train of three
coaches left the union depot carrying
westward 10 men said to be tried engin-
GERS and fremen. They marched over
from the ~company's headquarters in
charge of the Iowa division superinten-
dent and a few Pinkerton men. The ITO
men will be dropped along the line be-
tween here and Council Bluffs, where most
needed. This last batch makes the third
| since Thursday noon and gives a total of
over 300 shipped to points in Illinois, Iowa
and Nebraska.
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