River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-03-01

strike was not under his direction and was
inaugurated in defiance of the rules of the
order 1t was not successful The policy
OF the order has always been pacific The
order Is the richest in this country and best
able to maintain long struggle.
Perhaps the most remarkable element of
the strike is its peaceable character The
managers of the Standardization the fire.
men are also in the strike-were the cool
est men in town yesterday. The
fremen are nearly as strong as the
engineers and are virtually controlled by the
latter. IL the road can get the men 10 run
it's trains, neither Mr. Arthur, nor Mr. Sar-
gent, grand master of the firemen, will lift
hand No whispered councils or secret
caucuses were held at the Grand Pacific
last night No threats of resistance were
made.
The differences between the engineers
and the road have been under discussion
for four weeks, and Mr. Stone was familiar
with them. The engineers demand that
all be paid the same wages The company
at present Classics its men and
grades their wages First.year men, those
just promoted from firemen, receive GER
tain wages, estimated on the miles
run, and second-year men a higher price
per mile. Full engineers wages are not
paid until the third year. The engineers
claim that the Burlington road pays less
than many third-class roads. All the roads
centering in Chicago, except the Burling-
ton, pay their engineers according to the
Brotherhood schedule.
During all the weeks of negotiation Mr.
Some has not been idle. An agent of his
road went to Reading, Pa, and employed
all the men he could who had recently Deen
thrown out of employment by the strike
on the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
Company. Other points were reached
by telegraph offering work TO idle engi-
neers Every man in the shoDs who could
manage an engine was ordered to be ready
to go out with one. Applicants for jobs as
engineers got them in hurry Early last
evening the officers of the road said they
had enough men to run three trains each
way. The company has been running
twenty-six such trains daily
The chief depots or round-houses are To-
Gated at Aurora and Galesburr, nL 0ttum-
wa, Burlington and Creston, Ia and LIN
coin, Omaha and McCook, Neb These
cities are at the ends of working divisions
of the road Into the round-houses the
abandoned engines will be run. AT these
points, also, the new men will go to
work. At each city a committee of
the Brotherhood will wait on the new men
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than to accept the company's terms The
policy of the strikers will be to appeal to
the applicants for work on the general
ground of mutual interests and sympathy,
and failing in that, to attack the selfish side
of the new men by offering them higher
wages than the company will give.
The Knights of Labor threaten to aid the
road to defeat the engineers The Knights
say the Brotherhood filled their places on
the Reading and the Missouri roads when
the Knights were fighting those corpora
tons The leaders of the Knights
of Labor yesterday openly expressed
their determination TO get even
Chief Arthur said the Brotherhood
has never done any thing TO warrant any
ill-feeling between the two organizations
The strike is not likely to involve any other
roads, in the opinion of Mr.. Arthur and Mr..
Sargent