St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-29
NOT A MERRY WAR.
There Is No Nonsense About
the Strike on the Eurling-
ton System.
The Officials Serve Notice
on Their Late En-
ployes
To Return to Work To-Day or
Stay Away for All
Time.
Powderly Tells the Knights
of Labor How to Conduct
Themselves.
Special TO the Globe.

Special to the Globe
CHICAGO, Feb. 2S.-The Burlington
trouble will assume a new phase to-
morrow. Having acted on the defensive
for a couple of days, the officials of the
company now propose to take hand in
the other direction and to fight the
strikers with their own weapons. There
was a prolonged conference to-day be-
tween President Perkins, General Man.
ager Stone, General Passenger Agent
Morton and Chester NJ. Dawes, of the
legal department, and at its conclusion
the following dispatch was wired to the
division superintendent at Omaha, st.
Joseph. KeOkuk and Rochelle: Post
Immediately upon your bulletin boards
and all conspicuous places in and about
all the depotS on your division, the fol-
lowing notice: All engineers and fire
men recently in the employ of this com
pany who do not apply for positions by
noon of Wednesday, Feb. %, will be
considered out of the company's service.
Every man who has not applied by the
above hour can get all pay due him
napplication to the master mechanic
OF his division.'"
ATTACHED TO THE ABOVE
was private message inStructing each
superintendent to make arrangements
for the prompt furnishing of time
checks in order that there might be no
complaint on that score. While none of
the general officers were willing to enter
into literal Interpretation of the dis
patch in question. it was generally un-
derStood around the buildings as an ul-
tlmatum on the part of the company
that it proposed TO cut loose from all
recognition OF the brotherhood and to
deal with the strikers as individuals.
In other words, once the men are paid
of no OvertureS on the part of Chiefs
Arthur and Sargent or the grievance
committees of the men will be re-
spOnded to, nor will the fact that an
organized strike is in progress be recOg-
nized. The company will deal with
the men individually, and what
1t is significant fact as
indicating the perfect machinery of the
strikers, that within half an hour of the
notice being posted at Il Western point,
telegraphic copy was in the hands of
Chief Arthur. Almost Immediately
upon its receipt, accompanied by Chief
Sargent, he left the hotel and neither
a [,
The matter was
EARNESTLY DISCUSSED
among the engineers and firemen who
thrOnged the lobby of the Grand Pacific
tonight, and while not a few were
vehement i'll their assertions that the
company was simply playing game of
bluff, there were many others who re-
gretfully looked upon the order as in
dicating that peaceable solution of the
trouble was much further off than it
was twenty-fOur hours ago. Two other
rumOrS fiOated around the crowd and
caused good deal of talk. One was
that demand precisely similar to the
one that has preclpitated the present
strike would be presented to the officials
OF the Pennsylvania system tomorrow,
and that committee had been sent out
to meet the new men who are Ell route
here from the East and induce
them to return. Neither of
these reports, in the absence of
the responsible leaders of the strike
could be confirmed. The Burlington
people profess tonight to be entirely
satisfied with the outlook. Nine sub
urban trains have been run each way
during the day, against four yesterday,
and there was much less growing and
kicking on the part of the out-of-town
residents. Tomorrow, or by Thursday
at the latest, so say the officials. the sub
urban service will be as complete as
though no strike were in existence.
The noon and 5:35 p. m. through trains,
both carrying mail, went out on sched-
ule time, while the 1880 train tonight
was again abandoned. Three through
trains arrived during the day, from one
to two hOnrS late, and arrangements
have been made for taking out the Can
non-ball mail at 3 O'Clock tomorrow
morning. The officials
ARE EXTREMELY SORE
Over the failure of the Brotherhood to
take out this train this morning Gen
eral Passenger Agent Morton insists
that absolute assurance had been given
that this train would be moved and at
tributes the alleged breach of faith to
desire ON the part of the strikers to in
volve the company with the United
States postal authorities. On the other
hand Chief Arthur is emphatic in his
denials that any such pledge was ever
given or implied, and In this shape the
matter rests. Fortunately the train
went out and made good time, otherwise
the consequences might have been
serious. Around the headquarters of
the strikers, affairs were comparatively
quiet during the day. Many of the men
displayed evidences that they were
openly declared that they would
rather be working than loafing
for full pay. Chief Arthur was dis
posed to be nOn-committal, although he
vouchSafed the information that while
he was willing to attend any conference
which the company might seek with a
view to an adjustment of the trouble
the men on their part would send no
more delegations to the big building on
Adams street. Scores upon scores of
dispatches poured in from different
parts of the territory affected, one and
all declaring that the men were firm
and happy.
There are indications that an ugly
feeling will crop out before many DAYS
# the strike continues. A dispatch
from Aurora this evening stated that
the engineers and firemen had boycot-
ted all of the stores selling provisions
to the new men who are at work, and
that the latter had
LITERALLY NOTHING TO EAT.
A dining car, loaded with eatables,
was at once dispatched by the company
to the point. Another dispatch from the
headquarters of the Western division at
McCook, Neb., was to the effect that the
new crews that have been engaged to
move the trainseast and west had been
dragged from the engines. by the
strikers. At Aurora last night a mob
some 200 strong surrounded Train No. Is.
which was about to start east. and made
an unsuccessful attempt to disconnect
the brakes. In pOnSpnnpnop nf