Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-04
The G. B. & @. Engineers
Still Out on Strike.
THROUGH TRAFFIC SUsPEN DED
An Important Conference to be
Held on Monday by the
Brotherhood.
| Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.

Wdru 10 Witn BredI dHAloIy ny DOiL
the Burlington officials and the
Brotherhood officers. Upon the out.
come of this meeting depends the
future course of Chief Arthur. Should
q reasonable excuse be found for it,
on any one OF the Western roads, the
Brotherhood men will probably be
called out. 1t is believed by many
that every Western road is liable,
under strict neutrality construction,
to have it's men taken off by Tues.
day morning. Officers of the Brother
hood now admit that nothing salts
factory will come OF their order to the
engineers and fifemen in the employ
of the Reading road to quit work, and
the dispatches received from the
East this morning confirm the belief.
Only about thirty Reading men were
induced to go back to their homes.
A CALL ON THE COMPANY.
At the Burlington office it was not
thought that the Brotherhood would
carry out the threat toScall off the en-
gineers and firemen on the other
roads.
"Their object" said one official, "is
to -endeavor to bring such pressure
from the public and other roads to
bear upon us that will compel us to
accede to their demands. We have
made no attempt to take through
freight, and will not attempt to do 80
until we have completely modified
our local traffic. Then we will re-
ceiye and handle through freight, and
should any attempt be made to cut us
off from accommodation by connect
ing lines, we will try what virtue
there is in the interstate commerce
law. We can compel other roads to
handle our cars, or we may make
them pay $1,000 for every car they
refuse to handle We are moving
trains now almost to our usual capac-
ity on the Iowa, Nebraska and Mis-
souri, lines, and will have our line
service complete next week. The
fight on other roads by the Brother
hood will be made solely on account
of freight traffic."
SUBURBAN TRAFFIC UNAFFECTED.
There was no apparent change to-
day in the passenger service OF the
Burlington road. The suburban
trains arrived and left on time. The
other trains which came in were the
ones which had been running for
several days. An official of
the company said that the
through passenger business is
not as yet being solicited or re-
ceived. A notice was issued this
morning that the company's freight
house in this city will be opened on
Monday for the reception OF merchan-
disc for stations in Illinois only, and
it is desired that shipments for points
not reached by any other road be not
delivered. The notice says: "We ex.
pect to make reasonably prompt de-
livery, but the time will not be as
good as ordinarily"
AT THE ENGINEERS HEADQUARTERS.
Chief Arthur and Sargent are not
very hopeful of any good coming from
their request to the Brotherhood on
the Reading road to step out. The
are confident, however, that there are
not enough idle engineers in the East
to materially assist the Burlington and
that the road will arrive at the limits
of its resources within few days.
They expressed belief this evening
that they had a whip-hand on the
strike, but do not expect that there
will be many developments until
Monday, when the chairmen OF the
various grievance committees get to-
gether. To keep up the spirits OF the
strikers, circular letter was sent out
to-day signed by Arthur and Sargent,
complimenting the men on their
firm stand and devotion to the
people and duty and expressing
the firm belief that their cause will
triumph. Mr.. Arthur was this even
ing handed a copy Of telegram
which was sent this afternoon by
twelve Reading engineers to their
master workman in Philadelphia,
seying: eve are on our way back /;
stop the boys"
Grand Master Sargent showed to
the Associated Press representative
kilograms from many Western points,
showing that the men are standing
f.m and are confident Of ultimate
victory.
ONE OF THE STRIKERS SHOT.
- An Associated Press report was re-
ceived this afternoon from Linn@us,
Mo-, stating that at Brookfeld, this
morning, George H. Bostwick, q Bur-
lington railway bridge fireman, fatally
shot John Roxy, a striking engineer.
To avoid lynching, Bostwick was
brought here, and is now under ar
rest. Bostwick claims that he had
been sworn in as deputy sheriff.
He was in charge of the engine when
Roxy and others approached the en-
CINE and endeavored to take charge
of it. An alteration ensued and
Roxy drew his pistol. Bostwick then
shot him in self-defense. *
ARTHUR HEARS OF IT.
Chief Engineer Arthur had not
heard OF the tragedy until shown the
Associated Press despatch tonight
When it was read to him Mr.. Arthur
seemed affected. His eyes dropped
to the floor, and after a,minute' g study.
said: "I am sorry, deeply sorry. l
deprecate violence. of any sort, for
there is nothing to be gained by it..
The instructions given to our agents
who left headquarters for outlying
points, were to be particularly careful
to request our men to stay away from
the company's property, 30 that just
such trouble as this would be averted.
This was supplemented by tele-
gram OF the same tenor to the Broth
orbood on tho RurlinOton avstan1
cannot discuss the case further, for l
have received no official advice about
it,"
SUBSTITUTES SENT OUT.
At4P M. special train of three
coaches left the Union depot, carry
ing westward ITO men, said to be
tried engineers and firemen. They
marched ever from the company's
Headquarters in charge of the Iowa
n;x;r;op Euporirtandnnt and a fay