St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-03

tive Engineers? His cowardice then
was, on small scale, as despicable as
it is now, when he cringes before the
organization he has wrOnged and in
suited, and, were it necessary,
the Enquirer could fill page on the
record of this bloated boaster, whose
chief capital has been special cars and
other soft snaps at the hands of the
railroad companies. But | want Mr..
Arthur and his brothers to know that
amidst all the sOphistry, hypocrisy,
treachery and forgetfulness OF the two
there is one man who has not forgotten
the blasted hopes, the desolate homes
and the wretched wives and children OF
the black-Iisted shopmen whose most
relentless enemy he and his organiza-
ton has been. The ears of the ''supe-
rior'' gentlemen of the brotherhood
may remain deaf to the cries that come
up from the despoiled of the Rio Grande
and the Southwest, but there is one
who will always hear them,
HOLD IN SUPREME LOATHING
the workingmen, though they object to
the low title, who could have saved
them but refused" The editorial reads
as follows: ga great change has come
over the face of the labor movement,
through the @. strike. Since the matter
on this page was put in type, the Willy
Mr.. Arthur has at last been forced by
fear of defeat in the present strike to
come down from his high perch and
meet the representatives OF common
wOrkingmen on a level. 1t is to be
hoped that this conversion has come III
time to save the men from defeat on the
Reading, as well as the Chicago, Bur
lington d Quincy. and that the CHIEF
has received lesson which will be re-
membered by him in the future, when
his organization is once more out OF
trouble and sailing along as
the most intelligent, law abid-
ing, gentlemanly, and successful
organization in the country But the
Enquirer hasn't much faith in DEATH
bed conversions, and Arthur has never
inspired anybody with confidence sum,
cient to warrant the hope that he well
remembers his pledges when he gets
out OF his present tight fix"
Thousands of copies OF the ENQUIRER
are being sent tonight into the Reading
district, and in the opinion of Reading
men who are here it will exercise a
powerful influence in the direction OF
thwarting the -Cahill-Arthur
deal. Still another contribution to the
strike literature is out tonight in the
form Of lengthy letter to the public
from
EDITOR DETwIIER,
of the Knights of Labor. In it he re-
views the wage issue, and declares that
there is no possible way i'll which the
men can recede from their demands on
the question of wages. except at the
sacrifice of the entire organization. In
an interview tonight, after prefaclng
that he spoke the views of Messrs. Ar
thur and Sargent, he said: up TO the
time of my interview with President
Perkins [ thought that the way was
Open for an amicable settlement. L am
now thoroughly convinced that it is 60
ing to be hot fight and long one.
The boys, too, are beginning to feel the
same way. 1t will bea fight to the bit
ter end, and the brotherhood OF the
road must 90 down. The men will
make no more Overtures. We outsiders
are through with Offering ourselves as
mediatOrs, and any propositions must
now come from the road. 1t would be
suicide for the men to compromise
on the question of wages. If they did
they would Immediately have another
strike on their hands, for 80 per cent OF
the roads in the country are paying just
what is asked of the Burlington, and
they would do so no longer it Arthur
consented to make an exception OF
the O."
At the Office of the company it was
said in behalf of President Perkins and
General Manager Stone that the deal
was
CREATING NO UNEAsINEss.
Interviews had been had with several
Reading men since last nights develop
ments and the company was satisfied
that they would be loyal to their new
EMPLOYERS. General Passenger Agent
Morton In an interview said: sit should
| be known that the first Oyertures came
| to us from the Reading men themselves,
| through a committee OF their own
appointing. We were advised that the
| men seeking employment were first
| class engineers, as good body OF men
| and as competent as could be found any
where, and that they would take pleas
ure in filling the places of the striking
| engineers. That is how we commenced
to draw from the Reading region. All
| the reports from the subofficials re-
| ceived during the day were of an en-
| couraging nature" Nearly $50 engi-
| neers were examined and passed during
the day and left Chicago on special
| train at p. IN. for various points on the
| road, according to the officials. This
| makes a total of $50 engineers out OF a
total of about $50 strikers. Another 100
| are enrolled, and about fifty are still i'll
the city and will be examined to-mor-
row.