Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-22
CHIEF ARTHUR GIVES IT UP
A VIRTUAL ADMISSION OF THE
 BROTHERHOODS DEFEAT.

l The Radicals Among the Engineers De- feated in a Test Vote the Question of Extending the Strike-No Show for the 70" Strikers.
 CHICAGO, March 22-There will be no | strike on the St. Paul the Northwestern lines This was finally and formally decided yesterday at meeting of the grlevous com | mittees of these two roads. And what IS more, the boycott on the freight of the "Q" road has been raised.
 When the organized grievance committee of the St. Paul road came here several days agoit was confidently expected it would order strike, and the men were all prepared to go at a moments notice.
 On Monday the chairmen of the grievance committees of the other western roads were sent for by Chief Arthur to come here and use their ende vors to prevent the St. Paul committee from precipitating a strike. In response several of them came. The chair men of the Alton and Wabash committees went to the Saratoga and labored night and day with the St. Paul men, with the gratify ing result that when the vote was taken yes terday afternoon the conservatives won a de- cided victory. The radicals were beaten out of their boots.
 The boycott still remains on the Rock Island, however. It is not placed there so much by the men as by the officers. At least it is so understood, although Manager St. John and President Cable have given it out that the reason they do not handle Burlington freight is that it would precip,tate strike, and they don't propose to run any risks to please the Burlington or anybody else. Man ager St. John intimates that he knows his business, and doesn't care for any outside advice.
 Chef Arthur has become very restless and wants to go home. He realizes that the game is up, and that it has been tor some time. A correspondent met him yesterday.
 "Why didn't you take the same course with the Burlington strikers as you did with the Santa Fe mens Why didn't you deal with Messrs Hoge and Murphy as you did with Conroe"
 ''The Burlington strike was a legal one," replied MT. Arthur, land the Santa Fe was not. The Burlington men had 8 valid griev- ance and the Santa Fe engineers and firelI.en had not. The reason I do not advise the men to go back, and why do not advise that the strike should be declared off, is that the men seem to be satisfied and are determined to stand it out, being confident that they will win"
 Do you think the men would be taken back on the Burlington should the strike be declared off nowf'
 ''No; don't think any of them would get back-that is to say, very few. Last week 1 understand that to per cent of them could have returned, but that their places are all filled now"
 ''It's kind of 8 freeze out game, then7'
 "Yes, something of that sort. There will not be any more trouble, and when the men get ready to quit we will go home. am very anxious to get hcH to Cleveland, and know the others feel as do-that there is no good in our staying here"
 Chief Arthur d.d not say what the en- gineers and fremen of the Burlington, who have left good positions to go on strike, would do, undoubtedly because he didn', know. The strikers are blue, for they see no hope ahead, though Chief Sargent, of the Firemen's Brotherhood, says the men will win ill the long run
 Why he thinks they will win he does not say. It is not thought that the result of the strike is particularly displeasing to MT Arthur, because it will tend to prove that hls policy of dlscouraging strikes is the most profitable one in the end.