Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-04
GOING IN FOR RESULTS.


Break the Boycott.
CHICAGO, April THE railroad situation
| Tuesday night can he summed up as follows
Burlington-No change from previous re
| ports
| Milwaukee & st. Paul-Suburban service
| from Chicago resumed. Freight trains par
| TALLY So A large number Of new hands al
work Striking engineers and swtchmen in
| Chicago yards still defiant. In accordance
| with terms of notice issued by General Man
| ager Miller Monday they are considered as
discharged from the company's employ
Fort Wayne-Enginemen and switchmen
| still out.
Michigan Central, Lake Shore, and Illinois
| Central-All quiet viii handle 20" freight
and no trouble apprehended
Rock Island-Firm in its refusal to handle
| 80" cars, Its officials have been cited to APP
pear before Judge Gresham in the United
| States circuit court Wednesday, and show
cause for such refusal.
| At conference of Burlington officials
| Tuesday it was decided that within the ensu-
| ing twenty four hours cars should be sent to
| every road running out of the city.
"wednesday will be a decisive day." said
General Passenger Agent Morton, of the Bur
| lington at will be- a day of action. Every
road will be rendered our freight, and they
The Burlington people have found an unex
| pected ally In the lumbermen. There was q
| secret and prolonged session of the lumber
exchange Tuesday. The paralyzing condi
| ton of the trade was vigorously discussed.
| Leading members of the organization pointed
out that over $50, 00O, 900 worth of lumber
was tied up in the city; that the Burlington
was doing its best to raise the blockade, but
that it was hampered by other roads, while
rt,,fI- f,,Ii
rectly, using the fact of the block
ade as a club to accomplish their
aims. The upshot Of the gathering was the
adoption of a resolution deciding to take
legal proceedings against every road CON
Meeting with the Burlington which should
hereafter refuse to haul out their lumber and
transport it over their respective lines. A
committee was also appointed with full pow
or to take any action which it might think
necessary in order to bring the embargo to
an end. This committee has circular in
type which will be sent to the managers of
all the roads leading east and west. 1t sets
forth the action taken by the meeting, and
adds that legal proceedings will be institu-
tated under the Interstate commerce law
and without further notice, against every
| road which refuses to listen to reason.
| The action of the Michigan Central men in
| returning to work after a strike of seven
| hours, and that of their own volition, and
| upon the understanding that they would han.
| die all 20" freight offered, was in the nature
of a bomb-shell as far us the camps of the
| Burlington and St Paul strikers were con
cerned They were jubilant all the morning
over the stand taken by the Michigan Cen.
trail men, but their joy was turned into
mourning, and their praises into muttered
curses when they learned of the uncon
ditional surrender TIE conservative posi-
ton of the Michigan Central engineers wa!
the cause of the change in base They
stoutly Contended that they had no part oil
parcel In the Burlington trouble, that they
were opposed to the utilization with the
switchmen, and that there was no reason
why the 80" men should not fight their owl
battles, without dragging men who were con
| tented and getting all they wanted into the
mus. These arguments speedily had effect
| the men went back to work, and as an evi.
dence of their good intentions the first thing
| they did was to send out three Burlington
cars loaded with grain for the east.
The vice president of an important western
| road not yet identified with the strike, said
| Tuesday that he looked upon this develop
ment as significant. He believed that it was
| the beginning of the end, and that in the alb
senceiof unforeseen developments the strike on
all roads would be at an end before another
week was over. President Cable, of the Rock
| Island, said that the return of the Michigan
| Central men would have good effect. If
the railroads, he added would take little
time, and not attempt to force the issue with
their employees, he thought that the strike
would gradually go to pieces, and the menre-
turn to work
At the Burlington office the opinion was
expressed that the plan which the strikers
would next put into effect would be to at
tpmnt a erain pnblip SXyODatbv Inv naIliper tho
strike off on all the roads except the Burling-
ton. They see," said an official, that in
tying up all the roads they are arousing pub
lie sentiment against themselves and they
Will probably abandon this policy. while CON
tlnuing guerilla warfare against our road"
The Burlington applied to Judge Gresham
tuesday for an injunction to restrain the
Belt Line railway from refusing to haul 20"
cars, and temporary one was granted.
The answer Of the Burlington to the sensa-
tlonal charges of the Rock Island that the
former precipitated and plotted for the strike
SO as TO lnJure its connecting and competing
lines, and that said 20" road tried to induce
the other lines to form a trust" among the
railways centering here, was also filed in
court In brief it is an emphatic de-
NAL of the Rock Islands charges, and
characterize them as lies out of whole CLOTH
'recklessly false, and known 20 be so by the
INoeA 'sifiHl "heh us oulceTs sWofe TO them.
referring to the assertion that ON March %
the Rock Island was ready to accept "Qn
freight, the answer says The Burlington had
no information of such readiness, nor was it
notified by the Rock Island at any
time prior to the filing of the los" COM
plant that the engineers and firemen of de
PENDANT had given up control of its traffic de-
partment or granted permission to the de
PENDANT TO conduct its business as public |
carrier according to law. On the |
contrary this affiant was advised by tele- |
graph, reesiYed in Chicago at sos D. m. on !