St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-26
The BURLINGTON TROUBLE
II an Agreement Is Not Reached the
Men Will Go Ont Monday.
A NEW PHASE DEVELOPED.
Knights Of Labor Waiting For an OPP
portunity to Crafty a Grudge
Against the Brotherhood.

CHICAGO, Feb. 25.-Chief Arthur was
asked this morning about the proposed
strike of the locomotive engineers and
firemen on the Burlington system. He
said that he had given his consent to a
general strike but that the men would
not leave their posts to-day. He added
that unless the differences between the
men and the officials were adjusted be-
fore Monday morning the locomotive
engineers and tiremen would leave their
posts. General Manager Stone, of the
Burlington, made the following state
ment this afternoon: 1.-THE Chicago,
Burlingtonton & Quincy has told its
men that they would pay on its main
line from Chicago to Council Bluffs, and
its main line from Chicago to kansasCity
via Quincy, as much as other roads are
paying, for the same service, but to ask
it to pay as much on its side lines and
branches, where the work is light, as it
does on its main lines, where the traffic
is heavy and where a greater amount of
labor and ability is required, is unreal
SOnable and unfair. and not at all i'll ac-
cordance with business principles.
Mr.. Stone claims that any parallel be-
tween the Alton and the Burlington as
a whole i'll the matter of wages is UNI
fair. The Alton, he says, is virtually
all main line. which is not the case with
the Burlington. In connection with
the threatened strike, there are reports
that the Knights of Labor are waiting
for just such All opportunity to
Crafty AN OLD GRUDGE
against the brotherhood, and the fact
that the engineer knights on the Read
ing system are idle may give them the
chance. In 1877 there was a strike of
the Brotherhood engineers Oh the Read
ing The organization was not as pow
erful at that time as it is at present. Its
men worked together with Knights of
Labor engineers, and when they went
out the knights remained at work and
the strike was lost When the present
strike on the Reading commenced there
were only few of the knights there
who worked on it in 1877. Bnt it was
at once noised about that the Brother
hood would furnish all the men neceS-
sary to run the Reading, and defeat the
knights, and thus ''get even" with them
for their offenSe of ten years ago.
Knights of Labor in this city now claim
that there are some brotherhood en-
glneerS working Oh the Reading. Chief
that no man went to work in place of
the striking knights with the knowledge
and consent of the officers of the broth
erhOOd. However, an impression eX-
lists that they did. and an officer of Dis
trict Assembly No. "a of the Knights of
Labor in this city said that he
WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED
if the Knights of Labor engineers of the
Reading should decide to continue the
fight with the brotherhood and attempt
to defeat it by taking the places of the
strikers on the Burlington road. This
at present is one Of the dangerous ele-
ments to the success of the brotherhood
engineers as viewed by the engineers
he had considered this contingency.
Hardly" he said, THAT is none of our
business. We shall simply quit work.
We use no violence and shall not pre-
vent other men from taking our places,
but must take our chances. This is the
lookout of the railroad company. If
the company concludes to hire that
class of men it is their own business,
not ours"
Are the Knights of Labor engineers
an inferior class of men?'
Il don't want to say that. / don't
know much about them. You may draw
your OWL cOllciuSlOllS from NudG nave
said. We have the right to leave our
work whenever We want to. The rest
is for the company to decide"
WA ITCHING EVENTS.
READING, Pa, Feb. 25.-The impend-
ing strike of Brotherhood of LocomO-
tive Engineers Oh the Chicago, Bur-
lington & Quincy road is all event of
considerable interest to the 200 EN-
gineers on the Reading railroad who
lost their positions during the recent
trainmen's troubles, These engineers
were Knights of Labor, and most of
their positions were obtained by broth
erhOOd men whom they SupplaGted ten
years before. They now propose to re-
taliate, and movement to this effect
was started to-day along the line of the
Reading road wherever these Knight S
of Labor engineers are now located. II
case of strike On the Chicago, Burling-
ton q Quincy road, they propose offer
ing themselves for the places of the
striking brotherhood men. A delega-
ton will probably leave for Chicago
early next week, with more to follow.
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