The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-04
LABOR CUTS ITS THROAT.
THE FIGHT BETWEEN ARTHUR
AND THE KNIGHTS STILL ON.


CHICAGO, March S.-The meeting on Mon
day of the chairmen Of the Grievance Com
mittees of the Engineers and Firemen is
looked forward to with great anxiety by
both the Burlington officials and the Broth
erhood officers Upon the outcome of this
meeting depends the future course of Chief
Arthur. Should reasonable excuse be
found for it on any one Western road the
Brotherhood men will probably be called
out 1t is believed by many that every West
ern road is liable under the strict neutrality
construction to have its men taken out by
Tuesday morning. The officers of the
Brotherhood now admit that nothing salts
factory will come of their order to the engi-
neers and fremen of the Reading railroad
to quit work, and dispatches from the East
this morning confirm this belief. Now that
the order has not been obeyed the tenn
porary check put upon the Knights who
places of the strikers has been removed and
the Burlington can resume the work of
hiring willing Knights.
ONLY TWENTY FIVE SENT BACK
Master Workman Cahill only succeeded
in sending back East twenty five to thirty
OF the Reading men, and it required in
ducement in the shape of Brotherhood
money to accomplish even this much.
AT the offices of the Burlington company
1t was not thought that the Brotherhood
would carry out their threat to call off the
engineers and flremen on the other Western
roads. "TheT object of course said one
official, lis to endeavor 10 bring such pres
sure from the public and other roads to bear
upon us that it will compel US to accede to
their demands. We have made no attempt
TO move through freight and will not at
tempt to do so till we have completely
mObilized our local traffic Then we viii
receive and handle through freight, and
should any attempt be made to cut us from
accommodation by connecting lines, we
will try what virtue there is in the
interstate commerce law. We can
compel other roads to handle our cars or we
can make them pay 5000 for every car
they refuse to. We are moving freight
trains now almost to our utmost capacity
on the Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri lines,
and will have our own line service com
plete next week. The fight on the other
roads. by the brotherhood will be made
solely on account of freight traffic."
A CIRCULAR ISSUED.
The following notice to shippers, by F. P
Ripley, General Freight Agent, was issued
this afternoon: The Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy freight houses will be open
Monday, March 5, for the receipt of mer-
chandise for stations in Illinois only, and it
is desired that only shipments for points not
reached by any other road be delivered to
us We expect to make reasonably prompt
delivery, but the time will not be as good
as ordinarily"
SHOT BY A GUARD.
The first fatality of the strike was re-
ported by Supt GRANGE of the Hannibal and
St Joe road to-day as follows: George
Watts, one of our old engineers, was shot
this morning about O'Clock at Brookfield
by one of our guards, Bostwick by name. a
Deputy Sheriff. Watts was on the COM
pany's ground trying to induce or init
madate an engineer who was to take our
No. out. He was ordered several times to
leave and refused, at the same time putting
his hand in his pocket in q very threatening
manner, whereupon Bostwick shot him. In
the same pocket where Watts put his hand
was found large calibre bulldog revolver,
fully loaded. In his pockets were also found
extra cartridges"
A CONSULTATION.
A summons for a consultation at the
Headquarters Of the Brotherhood Of the
heads of tie various grievance committees
of the competing lines of the Burlington
moned by noon to-day. The conference
will not be held until Monday, as a number
of those summoned will not arrive until
late tomorrow night. A mass meeting will
be held Tuesday night Chiefs Arthur aud
Sa gent were kept busy to-day receiving the
visiting representatives. Neither OF them is
very hopeful of any good coming from their
order or request to the Brotherhood men on
the Reading road to step out of the places
of the striking Knights on the Reading
Already they have given up their efforts to
induce the Eastern men to refuse 10 work.
and any work done in that direction will lie
done by the strikers themselves They are
confident, however, that there are no idle
engineers in sufficient number to materially
aid the Burlington road, and they believe
that the Burlington will arrive at the limit
of its resources in a few days.
HOW THE MEN FEEL.
The Reading men insist now that Chief
Arthur shall expel the recalcitrants from
the Brotherhood. Meanwhile the ex-Read-
ing engineers are being sent out to man the
locomotives. At noon to-day
100 or more of the imported men were in
the office Of the Briggs House. A dozen |
striking engineers came in and |
had long talks with little groups |
Of the new arrivals, urging on them what |
they called the unmanliness of their course |
IN TAXING Lnb DldCeo VI LHc SlTlkbiS. II |
some Brotherhood men did 90 10 work on |
the Reading" said Burlington man, that |
is not our fault. None from here went |
there, and is it doing you any good TO come |
and take the bread out of the mouths of |
men who have never wronged youP
THAT is true TO a certain extent" said a
Reading man, "but Mr.. Arthur is running
this thing. tell you we can never forget
the morning after the tie-up on our road
when we saw Chief Arthur walk down the
main track at Richmond, Pa, with Presi-
dent Corbin, pat him on the back and heard
him say: IN get you a man TO fill every
place vacant; am with YOU in this, and
then we saw Brotherhood engineers walk
down the tracks and take our places. / am
willing to do anything TO help a man in
this struggle for better pay, but /
have wife and six children
and they have nothing to eat. | put my
money as fast as / could save it into pay
ments ON little home, and then Chief
Arthur and his Brotherhood took my job
md left me penniless."
Sixteen men, 1t is said, were fen beck to-
lay, the Brotherhood paying their fare and
TO boot.
NEW MEN SENT WEST
At4 o'clock this afternoon a special train |
If three coaches left the Union depot, carry |
ng westward 10 men, said to be tried |
engineers and firemen. They marched over
rom the Burlington Companys headquar-
iers in charge OF the Iowa division superin-
,endeut and a few Pinkerton men. The no /