Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-02
AN ALLIANCE OF FORCES.
THE BROTHERHOOD AND KNIGHTS
 FORM. 4 COMBINE" -

Tho FofmerSto Desert Their Engines on
 the Beading Road and tho Latter
 tp be Called from the Chicago, Eur
 lington and Quincy.
 CHICAGO, March 2.-A new phase was put on the strike after 10 o'clock last night by the decision of Chief Arthur to yield to the de- mands of the Reading Knights of Labor and call all the Brotherhood men off the Reading engines. Orders to that effect were sent out to the officers in charge of the Brotherhood men in Pennsylvania. The agreement is that all the Reading men now employed by the Burlington arejto return home land no more are to be sent out here in return for Chief Arthur's action. This takes away 175 of the engineers already employed by the Burling- ton, the POO expected to go to work to-day and the POO more who were supposed to be on the way west. Practically it leaves the road without an experienced engineer, undoes nearly everything that has been done, and puts the management about where it was Monday morning. It completely reverses the situation and puts the engineers again on top. - The only question about the matter is whether the Brotherhood men on the Reading will agree to leave their work As they are to be guaranteed full pay while they are idle it is not expected that they will object Chief Arthur's action is a great surprise to the strikers and the company, for he declared Tuesday that he would not call off the Brotherhood men, It is supposed that he saw that some big stroke was necessary to avoid defeat = fgi .fff.cy |. aue fe1.sE f,if
 Intelligence of undoubted reliability was secured at a 1a4e hour last night to the effect that the chairman of the engineers and fire mens' grievance committees upon all the Sraihpad lines intersecting, parallel to or con
 
 Quincy system will meet here to-day or to- morrow. This meeting is preparatory to . general strike upon all these lines. This in- cludes the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul, the Chicago and Alton, the Northwestern the Wisconsin Central, the Rock Island and the Minnesota and Northwestern < \ ! fssi
 Just how the company looks upon the pres ent situation is indicated by the following dis patch, which was wired. to every superintend- ent and master mechanic upon the system last evening by General Manager Stone:
 The reports which understand have been sent to our old engineers and others to the effect that the company is intending to yield the position it has taken is absolutely with out foundation"
 MT. Stone said that the conference of Wednesday night was not sought by him, and that no terms of compromise were offered or suggested He did not think there would be any more conferences yet awhile. He had received no protests from any of the bond holders or stockholders of the road concern ing it's present policy, but, on the contrary, his. course thus far had met the entire approval of the board of directors. He thought that by a week from Monday next, at the latest, every passenger and freight train on. the road would be running as though mo strike had occurreda i = . S7i t5l ].
 The reports received by General Passenger Agent Morton indicate that the company is making substantial progress. The suburban trains are running on time, and so are the most important of the through mails A few freight trains were running yesterday, and more are running to-day. The railroad off cials declare that the freight blockade is broken. ss~e &vs $<ES sN@
 When asked what would be the attitude of the company toward their new men in the event of szap amicable termination of tho strike, Mir. Morton, who spoke in behalf ot MT. Stone, said that all who were competent would be retained, no matter what new phase the contest might assume. -