The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-03
THE BIG STRIKE.
Further Developments in the
Matter.
WITH THE LAWMAKERS.
The MOrmons Again-A Benefit to
CarAda-Notes From Britain
General News.
THE BIG STRIKE.
ITH THE LAWMAKERS i.
The Strike.

Chicago, March 2-Tne agreement
between the Brotherhood of Engineers
and Firemen and the Knights of Labor
had no apparent effect on the number
of applicants at Burlington offices this
morning. The majority of men, how
ever, look more like firemen than en-
gineers. Officials of the company cl aim
the situation is steadily improving;
fourteen passenger trains were sent
out from Chicago to-day and sixteen
came in. The company commenced
running coal trains on the Chicago di-
vision to-day, and claim they are rum
ming local freight trains on most parts
of their system.
At the Round House on Twelfth
Street, the foreman said TO reporter
to-day; lam tired oflooking at some
of the men who are employed to take
the places of strikers. Engines are in a
horrible shape. Three of our finest
locomotives are ruined and others badly
broken down.
A most important move was made to-
day by Chief Arthur in the strike. The
following telegram was sent to each
chairman of the general grievance
committee of the Brotherhood of En-
gineers and Firemen on the following
lines OF. railroad, viz: Chicago & Alton,
Chicago q Northwestern, Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific, Wabash Rail
road, Wabash and Western, Missouri
Pacific. Union Pacific, Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe and Wisconsin Gen.
trail.
Dear Sir and Brother-You are here
by authorized and ordered to come to
the City of Chicago at once and report
=
portaut matters to consider in connec-
ton with the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy strike, and your immediate
presence is imperative. Be prepared to
convey your committee from here at
moments notice.
THE BRoTHERHooD's POSITION.
CHICAGO. March 2.-Chief Engineer
Arthur to night gave out long state
ment concerning the position of the
engineers and firemen as to their pres
ent attitude toward the Burlington
road. In 1t he says, in part: The men
are striking, not TO compel the railway
company to payI them for services they
do not perform, nor to compel the
company 60 accept blind men to run
engines. Neither do the men demand
passes for all their relations. The main
issue is, shall the G.. B. & Q. Company
pay the same wages for the same work
that is paid by ninety percent. in mileage
of all the railways in the United States
This is almost the only question at
issue. The principle of grading men
according to years of service as en-
gineers, adopted by the C. B & O., is
illogical and Unjust. Under that system
a man serves from three to five years
as q fireman, when he is supposed to be
an Apprentice learning the rudiments
of engineering. He then takes place |
as hostler and runs an engine from the
round-house, in which capacity he may
serve for year or more before he sets |
a switch engine for another year or
two, when he may get on the road. By |
this time he has served an apprentice |
ship of from five to nine years, and still
the company expects him to serve three |
years longer before he gets full pay. |
There is no other trade in existence |
that is asked to or would submit to the |
injustice of being q candidate for the |
suporannuated list before becoming |
full-hedged master of his trade. There /
is practically no difference in the |
service rendered or the results |
to the railway, between an engineer OF |
the first grade and one of the third. |
There is no trade or calling in which |
years Of service will determine mans |
ability. An engineer of one years |
service is often better qualified to run |
an engine than one who has twenty |
years experience. There is one and |
only one just rule to determine the |
question, and that is equal pay for |
equal service. In the present contro-
versv the engineers and fremen can
afford to lose the fight but there is no
possible way in which they can recede |
from their demands on the question of
wages, except at the sacrifice of their
entire organization. There is no other
way cut of the difficulty than by a con-
,cession on the part of the company on
the question of wages, or q fight to the
bitter end.
One of the chief topics talked of in
railroad circles, to-day, was the alleged
threat of the Engineers and Firemen to
extend strikes to the lines connecting
with the Burlington road, If such lines
sold the latter tickets. The threat was
received with surprise by the various
officers and representatives, and all de-
clared that they were maintaing strict
neutrality in the direction as we'll as in
the matter OF handling Burlington cars,
etc.
DENVER, March 2.-The situation of
the Burlington to-day is unchanged at
this point. The company are sending
out but one train day, and that is the
local mail. They are making no at
Sempt to get eastern business, and will
not guarantee anything. General
Agent Crosby said this evening, that
while the road was doing some business
on eastern lines, he could give no idea
as to when they would begin receiving
freight or through passenger business
in this city. They had train in at
4.36 this morning, consisting of six
cars, the engine run by man named
Jefries who, some railroad men
said, was found on ranch near
McCook. The same train was sent out
at. 10 O'Clock this forenoon with two
local mails and about fifteen passengers.
The afternoon train from Chicago is
reported three hours late and is said to
be the through Kansas City and Omaha
mail. Gillen, the photographer who