Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-28
A MAMMOTH STRIKE.
All the Brotherhood Out on
the c., B. h @. Road.
TRAFFIC BADLY CRIPPLED.
An Accident Occurs to a Train
in Charge of Volunteer
Engineer.

in Charge of a Volunteer
Engineer.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
CHICAGO, February 27.-Just before
four O'Clock this morning Train Mas
ter Pope issued an order that no trains
should be moved west on the G. B
and Q. road. Promptly at four O'Clock
several switch engines entered the
round house Engineers and firemer
quit work, and the strike was on il
earnest.
Three suburban trains were the only
ones to come in over the Burlington
road up to 10 O'Clock this morning
and the engines of these were il
charge of officers of the road. The
only train to leave the depot up to IL
O'Clock was the fast mail which de.
parted at o'clock. manned by an
engineer and fireman from the Brother.
hood. General Manager Stone eaid that
all of the 1000 engineers and firemen
employed by the road struck with the
single exception of an engineer near
Galesburg.
The superintendent's office is
crowded with applicants for vacant
positions. They were put through an
examination, and before IL O'Clock
about fifty applicants had been ac.
cepted and sent to the yards of the
company. The company has not yet
attempted to move any freight trains,
but they will start noon passenger
trains for Missouri river points at the
usual hour. No trouble is anticipated
from the trainmen.
NECESSARY DISCHARGES MADE.
This afternoon the freight handlers
of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy line were laid off, and every
freight Office in the city shut down il
consequence OF the engineers strike.
There were some men who obtained
work during the freight handlers
strike Of 1886, all said to be loyal to
the company, but they have been lait
off as no work remains.
AN OUTCOME OF THE STRIKE.
The first accident to occur followin,
the commencement of the strike tool
place this afternoon at Naperville, Ill
No one was killed, but six men, more
or less, we're injured. Passenger trair
Ne. 2, in which O. F. Grier, genera
foreman Of the Burlington shops o
Aurora was acting as engineer, raj
short of steam about 3 P. NJ. The en-
gine was cut loose,f from the train tt
run ahead, and then in coming bacl
to again couple on to the train, be
came to certain extent, unmanage.
able on the down grade and collided
with the cars. Acting engineer, genera
foreman Grier, had his nose cut anc
the temporary foreman named Par
sons was cut on the shoulder and leg.
George Clark, a mail clerk had his
face cut and back injured. VIM
Stenson, a mail clerk, had his knee
bruised, and T.. Foster, a trainman oi
Aurora, his arm and knee bruised
a ChAI WITH ARTHUR
Chief Engineer Arthur, in an inter
view this evening, said: "The publ
cation by General Manager Stone o.
all the propositions offered by the
men tends to mislead the public. We
were willing to discuss these propo.
sitions one by one, and in case we
failed to convince Mr.. Stone that
they were just and fair, we would
have made concessions. The strike
did not occur because of the
schedule, but because when the
question OF wages was reached
Mr.. Stone refused to do anything
at all. We receded from our first
proposition and offered to accept 81
cents, which Stone refused in most
positive manner. He made no propo-
sition to us at all and the fight now is
purely Oh question of pay. Mr.
Stone says that we want to put un-
skilled labor on par with skilled la
Dor, but we go on the assumption thai
there is no unskilled labor on the
lines OF any road in the Union. Does
Mr.. Stone mean to say that he
has unskilled engineers on any
branch of his road? Would he
go into court in .case of a damage
suit and swear that he had ? Would
Mr.. Stone like to have the public be-
lieve that the engineers on the branch
lines are inferior to those on the main
lines? If the engineer who runs the
limited express is willing that the en-
gineer who runs q common train
should have the same pay that he
does, why should the company object.
Mr.. Arthur did not think that the
knights of Labor would try to helE
the Burlington road in any way
Whatever individual members of the
brotherhood may have done, he never
interfered in the Knights of Labo
strike.
EFFECT ON TRAFFIC.
The Burlington road this evening
sent out a notice to all connecting
lines that it will probably be week
or more before the company will be
able to receive freight from them and
asking that it be given to other
roads.
Dispatches from Quincy, Ill. ;
Ottumwa, Iowa; Des Moines and
Lincoln, Neb., show that the strike
on the Burlington system has affected
those points, and that little or nc
traffic is carried on. What rolling
stock was moved has been in charge d
officials of the road or non-union men,
and with unsatisfactory results.
OUR INTERESTS NOT HURT.
SAN Francisco, February 27.-The
strike of engineers and firemen on the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy line
affects freight and passenger traffic be-
tween this coast and the East only in
a small way. Richard Gray, General