Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-03-03
cmcAoo March 2-The strike is sill

] NlSel7S lA WAGES VI l'sl - NJ on lut DeSlS OF
- 30. The Reading railroad in Septem-
| Der granted the iUCresst; the Lehigh com
panIes Cf which Mr. Harris is the chief
mogu., refused even t. receive the COM
mitteo Of their men The result was that
| il the Lehich region there was a strike,
and twenty thousand men were either On
a strike OF locked out. The Reading rail
road employees organization then turned
in and gave the Lehjgh miner8 all the
N raj and financial Support our organiza-
ton hal. We had the strike virtually Won
when the Reading railroad insisted on our
hauling certain freight and doing other acts
injurious to them. We believe that there
was Il common movement on December -,
by all the combinations and big corpora
tlOas in tie State of Pennsylvania to inau-
guratr this strike ''
Mr.. C.hill looked upon the Burlington
strike as connected with the Reading I'VE
hal the attempt to crush out labor Organi-
zltious there Ae said, to-day we have
il here ~
OFFICIALS DECLARE AGAINST A COMpRO-
MISE
General Manager Stone, of the Burling-
ton road, was seen by reporter and in
formed of the agreement reached by the
Brotherhood and Knights Of Labor at
makes Eo difference to US, said he I'VE
will 20 on Just the same"
SETTLEMENT RUNroE ENPHATICALLY DE
MED.
When General Passenger Agent Morton
gylch,I his office in the Burlington build.
.ug thit mouiny, he found dispatch
from enc of the largest EASTERN stock
holders grkjng If the report; in the New
York p9i .r~, that ac'wpromise was about
q be- roWhei, were true. After confer
en,s with General Manager Shne, he re
turned the following reply:
"E.Iprt absolutely untrue We have
not and will moi compromise. Oar husi-
ness is i'm better shape than ever to-day
After this VS. cent there was another
conference between the two officials which
resulted in the U.iuicsS u supcrintendeLts
already sent being issued. Speaking in
behalf OF Mr. Stone aud the Pr, sldent, Mr..
Morton said.
''No wc ale not to compromise. This
step Of the Brotherhood's was taken to
late As things stand now We cannot he
crippled. Ouy uiy,y,5 this morning say
that more ir,igh'3 have started out on the
-. Louis, Iowa and Nebraska division
Yesterday and tina; the passenger bUsi
neg i4 in the very lest OF shape We had
haen anticipating the move between the |
Brotherhood and the R.r.diug men, owing F!
- private aigicc9 that We had received !
hu. they ,trnot deliver the goods. The |
E1ighls Of Labor who are hyrcpropose to |
,uay. We know this because the ques
ton had bean put plaiuly to them.
We propose - pay the ~ to - !
per cent more wagcs than they can
inclination to back in the face of the prob
ability that Mr. Corhin will refuse t. have |
anything to 90 with them. II his test- !
mOny before the investigating committee |
meant ans thing, aud be Is noted ~ a uan |
of his word, he would shut down his road |
before taking these men back. They all /
seem to knew aud feel this and out OF the |
two hundred men that came in Last night |
there is not a m3I who wants TO run any |
more chance with the certainty OF good /
iob before him. Btaldes this. We are not /
pending solely upon the knights ga Ell
good proportion of four new men do not be .
long to the orgtnztjon, and many more I.
are en- route here In hricl !, may he said T.
that the dyll has not FASTENED The proha
bilily OF settlement in any dtgrce.
\ GENERAL STRIKE THREATENED.
Mr., Arthur and his lieutcnants, and the
officials Of the Burlington road both re-
port no important development IN thc |
strike situation THE morning
At the Brotherhood headquarters it vA-