The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-03
ARTHUR'S MEN STILL OUT
NONE OF THE NEW HANDS HAVE
YET LEFT THE READING.

Applications for Positions Still Pour
ing in at the Burlington Roads Head
quarters at Chicago-Supt. Sweigard
Ridicules the Statement That the
Reading Company Can be Crippled.
CHICAGO, March 2.-It appears that Sec
retary Cahill, of the Executive Board of
the Reading railroad employees, brought
Chief Arthur and Grand Master Sargent
official information that 150 members of
their organizations had taken places of the
Knights of Labor on the Reading road
Both Chief Arthur and Mr.. Sargent have
denied repeatedly that they knew that their
men had taken the places of the Reading
striking employees They assured Mr.. Ca
hill that they had no knowledge other than
vague newspaper reports that this thing
had occurred Both gentlomen expressed a
willingness to play fair with the Knights,
and an agreement was entered into by
which Chief Arthur and Mr.. Sargent agreed
to request their men to quit the Reading IS
employment. In return MIR. Cahill agreed
to keep the $50 to 200 Reading engineers III
the city from taking places on the Burling-
ton road.
TO WAIT ONLY A DAY.
These men, it was agreed would be held
back twenty-four hours. If the Brother
hood men obeyed the request of their chiefs
and quit the Reading road, the Knights
here would return home. After the settle
ment with the Reading men was made,
Chief Arthur and his comrades took fresh
courage and wero Il trihe less ready to make
concessions to the company. They thought
the strike would be brought TO speedy ter
min tgi Mr.
Cahill was enforced. Chairman Hoge,
sof the Engineers and Firemen's Grievance
COMMITTEES said complaints had reached him
that several roads were violating their neu-
trality agreement. He declined to say
which were the offenders but the Rock
Island and companies using the st. Louis
bridge were on the list. Secretary Delos,
of the Firemen's Brotherhood, said that un-
less this assistance was stopped "a general
strike would be ordered within forty y-eight
hours.
NO FALLING OFF IN APPLICATIONS.
The agreement between the Brotherhood
of Engineers and Firemen and the knights
of Labor, whereby the former are to call
their men out of the Pennsylvania coal re
gions on the Reading road, and the latter
are to keep away from the fight in the Chi
| cago, Burlington and Quincy mat
ter had no apparent effect
on the number of applicants
at the general offices of the Burlington
Company this morning. A majority Of
| men, however, were young and looked
more like firemen than engineers. The Off
| cials of the company claim that the situa-
| ton is steadily improving. They accepted
| 100 men yesterday, and expect to put on l5t
| more tomorrow.
Fourteen passenger trains were sent out
from Chicago to-day, and sixteen CAME in,
| The company commenced running Goa
trains on the Chicago division to-day, and
it is claimed that they are running loca
| freight trains on some portions of their sys
tenn A number of switch engines
are at work in tine yards and
lumber district, and the most important
work there is being taken care Of. The
officers of the company are confident that
they will be able to send several freight
trains out tomorrow. They do not think
that the deal between the Brotherhood and
Knights of Labor will have any effect on
| the new men.
ON THE ROAD WEST.
PITTsBURG, PA, March 2 Another cal
| load of engineers, who were formerly EN-
ployed on the Reading system, passed
| this city this morning en- route to Chicago
There were about thirty in the party, sixteen
of them being from Shamokin and the Others
| from PHILADELPHIA One Of the men when
asked about the report that Chief Arthur
would call the Brotherhood engineers off
the Reading said 1--WE have heard the ru.
NOR, but have had no official notification
that it is true. If such prove to be correct
we are willing TO turn around and come
back to fight our fight on the Reading and
leave the Burlington trouble solely in the
hands Of the Brotherhood"
a. O. Carlton, Of the General Executive
| Board of the Knights Of Labor, who passed
! through the city this morning, said that he
had not learned yet whether there was any
foundation for the report that compromise
had been arranged between the Brotherhood
and the Knights Of Labor.
DECLARED EXAGGERATED.
PHILADELPHIA, March 2--Supt. Swei.
| gard, of the Reading road, to-day declared
| the reports from the West, telling about
hundreds Of discharged Reading engineers
taking the places of the strikers on the
| Chicago, Burlir gton and Quincy Rail
road, greatly exaggerated, for "hun-
| dreds of engineers were not discharged
| from the Reading service. Referring 10 the
records Supt Sweigard found that the ell
tire number Of locomotive engineers who
left the service Of the Philadelphia and
! Reading Railroad Company during the O.
cent labor disturbance was lO9. Road Fore
man ColisOn and Master Mechanic Vernon
were seen and both declared that not more
than twenty Brotherhood engineers were
employed by the Reading Company during
| the strike.
READING NOT FRIGHTENED,
NEW York, March 2-No advices had
been received up 10 a late hour this morn
ing at the office Of Austin Corbin, President
of the Reading road, with reference 10 the
latest reported order Of Chief Arthur Of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
| and Chief Sargent Of the Fireman u
the members of the Brotherhood who had
taken tie places Of the late strikers on the
| Reading system Mr.. Corbin is on his farm
| in Clarmont, N. H.. and will not return un-
| til Monday or Tuesday unless telegraphed
| for.
| Il was not thought that the move referred
TO above was a matter Of serious interest Il
the Reading company