Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-01

five cars were made up and starte,
for the Lake Shore road, with fort
Pinkerton menlaboard. The transfer
however, was made without disturb
ance. At 2 P. M, the Fort Wayn,
officials ordered switching crew t,
take the 80" train from the siding a
Sixteenth street, and place it on The
Fort Wayne tracks. The mer
promptly refused, and ran their en-
gines in. The news spread, and ir
a few momehts all the crews il
the yards quit, engineers, firemer
and sWitchmen. Just then the 2 :2(
p. NJ. Fort Wayne passenger train
outward bound, came along. At Six
teenth street the engineer and fire
man learned Of the strike and left the
engine. The conductor soon volun.
teered to run the engine, a fireman
was found, and the train proceeded
after a slight delay. The Ft. Wayne
di patches say they have no assur-
ances from other passenger engines
that they would not go out, but a
great deal of dependence is placed in
them.
THE ST. PAUL PARALYZED.
Along the line of the St. Paul road
freight business was paralyzed and
passenger traffic almost suspended
AS soon as the inbound passenger
trains reached the depot and unload.
ed the engineers backed them out tc
Western avenue and abandoned
them.
WOULD HANDLE EMPTY CARS.
This afternoon the engineers, fire.
men and switchmen of the st. Pau
road held meeting and sent com
mittee to Superintendent Earling
They stated to him they could agree
to handle empty, but not loaded, go
cars. Earling asked them to submit
their proposal in writing and agreed
to forward it to General Manager
Mills at Milwaukee.
SUBSTITUTES THAT WOULDN'T WORK.
Fifty men. said to be regular freight
and passenger conductors on the
Council Bluffs division of the road
arri we'd here this morning, having
been brought by the st. Paul people
to ill the places OF the striking en-.
gineers, fremen and switchmen, but
after brief talk with the leaders Of
the st. Paul strikers, they decided
that not a man would throw a switch.
IN A BAD PLIGHT.
During the day as many as a dozen
men called on the Mayor with COM
plants against the Chicago, Burling.
ton and Quincy managers. They
claim that they were induced to come
here from the East by promises oi
positions as brakemen, svitchmen,
etc, but on their arrival they were
declared incompetent and the com.
pany refused them work or transpor.
tation home again. They claim to be
without money and in bad plight
and say they have as companions ir
their misery two or three hundred
others whose condition is exactly sim
liar to theirs. The Mayor promised
to see the Burlington people.
MANAGER MILLER's STATEMENT.
MILWAUKEE. March 81. - Manager
Miller of the st. Paul road said thil
morning that the trouble with theil
men is still confined to Chicago. The
Chicago train dispatchers joined the
ranks of the disaffected, and before
their places could be filed some delay
to passenger trains at the Chicago
terminus was caused by the failure on
the part of the company to get engi-
neers on time. About 200 employees
of the company have quit work at
Chicago. "We are getting new engine
dispatchers to supply the place Of
those who stopped work, and all pas
senger trains except those of the
early morning are about on time. We
are running as many freight trains as
we can take care of in Chicago. st.
Paul is in the market for freight both
at Chicago and Milwaukee. On all
other divisions OF the road trains are
running as usual. 1 do not believe
there will be any further trouble"