, 1888-04-01
STRIKE UPON STRIKE.
The st. Paul and Fort Wayne
Roads Tied Up.
Lively Times Promised in the
Near Future.
B. E. Hopkins Gets Seven Years
and Two Months.
A Lively Day,

CHICAGO, March 31.-Strike following
strike in rapid succession was the result
to-day OF the Burlington roads first at
tempt to resume forcing freight on the
other roads. Almost at the very outset
a strike occurred on the Fort Wayne sys-
TEN, involving for the first time an I'M
doubted extension of the troubles to the
roads leading east from Chicago. The
ST. Paul road had been completely tied
up between midnight and daylight and
Chairman Hoge, the leader of the
brotherhood, in the absence of Chief Ar
thur, intimated early that before another
midnight there might be p~recipitated a
succession Of strikes unparalleled IN the
city. One on the Panhandle occurred as
early as a. M, but it was overcome by
the officials showing that no workmen
had been asked to handle Burlington cars.
At 10 a. N. the Burlington made up a
train of fifteen cars, which was quietly
transferred to the Fort Wayne road, while
at the same time twenty-five cars were
made up and started for the Lake Shore
road, with forty Pinkerton men
aboard. The transfer, however, was
made without disturbance. At 3 p. m.
The Eft. Wayne officials ordered a
switching crew to take the 20" train
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place it on the Fl. Wayne tracks. The
men promptly refused and ran their en-
gines in. The news spread and for a
few moments all the crews in the yards
quit work-engineers, firemen and switch
men. Just then the 2:20 Fit. Wayne
passenger train, eastward bound. came
along. NJ Sixteenth street the engineer
and fireman learned of the strike and left
the engine. A conductor soon volun-
teered to run the engine, q fireman was
found and the train proceeded after a
slight delay.
Along the line OF the st. Paul road
freight business was paralyzed and pas
senger traffic almost suspended. As soon
as inbound passenger trains reached the
depot and were unloaded, the engineers
backed them out to Western avenue and
abandoned them.
This afternoon the engineers, firemen
and switchmen of the st. Paul road held
4 meeting and sent a communication to
Superintendent Earlipg. They stated to
him they would agree to handle empty.
but not loaded, 20" cars. Earring asked
them to submit their proposition in writ
ing and agreed to forward it to General
Manager Miller at Milwaukee. Fifty
men, said to be regular freight and pas
senger conductors on the Council Bluffs
division of the road, arrived here this
evening, having been brought by the st.
Paul people to fill the places of the strik-
ing engineers, firemen and s~witchmen,
but after a brief talk with the leader of
the st. Paul strikers they decided that
not a man would throw a switch.
During the day as many as a dozen
men called on the mayor with complaints
against the Chicago, Burlington & Quin-
cy managers. They claimed they were
induced to come here from the East by
promises of positions as brakemen,
switchmen, ETC., but on arrival here de-
clared incompent and refused work and
transportation home again. They claim
to be without money and in a bad plight
and say they have as companions in their
misery 200 or 300 Others whose condition
is exactly similar.