St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-06
They DID NOT GO OUT
An Order From Chief Arthur
Held Off the Threatened
Strike.
1t Came Just Before the Bur-
lington & Northern Engi-
neers Quit Work.
An Enthusiastic Meeting Of
Engineers in Chicago
Yesterday.
The General Situation About
the Same--The Strikers
Confident.

An order from Chicogo prevented the
strike of lhe engineers on the Burling-
ton & Northern railroad, which was to
have taken place at o'clock last night.
The order reached st. Paul an hour
ahead of that time, and, with pos
sibly few exceptions, the men
who came in on the trains were
notified and Staid on their engines.
The prospects for strike of all railroad
engineers in st. Paul was magnitied
two-fold last night, and the enthusiasm
had reached the highest notch. Com
mittees of engineers had visited the
officials of railroads centering in st.
Paul in the afternoon and demanded a
cessation of the support to the Bur-
lington road. As result of
the several conferences, a bulletin
was at once posted in the various rail
road yards directed to the employees of
the roads, saying:
"Do not touch c., B. & Q. car. Do
not unload OF move them. Let them
stay where they stand"
This was concession of no small i'm
pOrtance and gave considerable encour-
agement to the "boys." 1t was fully
expected that the engineers of the Bur
lington & Northern would go out at z
O'Clock as ordered, but at :46 a telegram
was received from Arthur at Chicago
saying:
"Hold all men Oh duty until you hear
from u.s.
A committee was dispatched in hot
haste to the depot to carry the instruc-
tions to the engineers of all incoming
trains, and they moved on schedule time
as usual. This committee boarded
every engine that arrived and not
only informed the sturdy drivers of the
Instructions, ,bnt advised each one OF the
meeting to be held in the hall on the
corner of Seventh and Bradley streets.
WHAT STOPPED IT.
A dispatch from Chicago to the GLOBE
states that Yesterday afternoon General
Manager Harris, of the Chicago, Bur-
lington & Northern, called at Chief
Arthur's private room. Chief Arthur
came from the grievance committee
meeting to meet Mr.. Harris. Mr..
Harris requested Mr.. Arthur'ss
strike. To this Mr.. Arthur replied that
he had not been consulted by the
men about striking, and therefore if
they struck it was their own fight. He
could not interfere either for or against
either side. This made it necessary for
Mr. Harris to discuss the differences
with his own men. The grievance COM
mittee of the road was called in from
the general meeting and a talk was had.
An hours discussion resulted in an
order to the men not to strike. and the
whole matter is held in allegiance until
the chairman of the committee can
roach homo and have a talk
Early i'll the day the Burlington &
Northern had hired four ''scab" engin-
GERS, to be in readiness for the expected
strike at 7 o'clock. Members of the
brotherhood were Oh the lookout, how
ever, and within few minutes had
also hired three of these four men and
persuaded them to their side of the
case. The fourth man was not desira-
BILE, as the gentlemen of the committee
see thirty feet without specta-
cles. Had the man gone out
at o'clock it was claimed that no trains
Oh that road would have moved a foot.
The brotherhood will continue to hire
these men as fast as the railroad COM
panieS do, if possible.
THEY MET LAST NIGHT.
The meeting last night was large and
wonderfully enthusiastic. 1t was impOs-
Sible for all the members to find even
standing room within the hall. Several
representatives of the order were pres
ent from Chicago and in lengthy
speeches unfolded all the latest infor-
nation. The proceedings of the meet
ing were strictly private. The principal
topic of discussion was how to prevent
the other lines from aiding the Chicago.
Burlington & Quincy. A strike will in
stantly ensue on all other roads unless
they refuse to operate Chicago, Burling-
ton d Quincy cars and refuse to honor
the tickets of that road. Of course the
object, as the brotherhood state, is to
cut off the income of that road. An in
telligent engineer of twenty years. ex-
perience at the throttle, in cOnverSatian
with GLOBE reporter last night, stated
as follows:
'"Hhe public does not understand the
situation. 1t is caused wholly by clasSi-
fication. There are half dozen classes,
and the companies pay the men all the
way from So to 1925. An engineer be-
gins as fireman, and works in that capac-
ity from three to five years. Then he
works year or two as hostler, taking
the engine in and out of the house.
Then he goes on the road at about 1925
per day. Another year he gets
ss.25 S' per day. day To ire reduce expenses the he
company lets out fifty OF one hundred
of the highest paid men and promotes
the lowest paid men to 1928. Thus
they save 81 day on 100 men, or $780,
Just as soon as the man is Worn out in
the service and broken down in health
they discharge him and put cheap
man in. That is the whole cause of the
STRIKE"
Now for something else. There are
between 800 and 400 Chicago, st. Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha cars on the Bur-
lington system that the Omaha can't
get off, for the reason that there are no
engineers to haul them. According to
the mileage system, every company gets
"a of cent per mile for cars, The Bur-
lington is showing its own cars out to
get the % cent and is holding back the
cars of other roads. We want to stop,
completely, this hauling of Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy cars. Most of the
companies
HAVE CONCEDED so MUCH
thus far, and where they do there will
be no trouble. When we struck at Chi
cago we allowed our engineers to run
mail trains. Then Stone gave it out
that he had all the engineers he wanted.
Of course, Mr.. Arthur Immediately
withdrew his engineers from the mail
trains. The officials of the railroads
went to him and reminded him of his
promise to keep his engineers on the
mail trains, but then he pointed to MI.
Stones public announcement.
"Please say that we are bound to win
I'm thiS fiOht If if StOOS oVary wheel in