Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-27
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
THE BURLINGTON TIED UP,
Engineers and Firemen All
Quit.
K. OF [. MEN OFFER TOWORK
To Get Revenge On The
Brotherhood.
A GREAT BLAZE AT BUFFALO,
One of The Providence
Firebugs Caught.
THE ENGINEERS, ULrImATUM,

They VIII &c Out This Morning
Unless Their Demands are Granted.
| CHICAGO, Feb. 26.-Four o'clock Monday
morning was the hour officially announced to-
| day as the time for the great strike on the
| Chicago, Burlington and Quincy road. Be.
| tween eleven and twelve o'clock this morning
8. 9. Hoges, chairman of the grievance COM
| mittee of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers on the Burlington system, and j.
Fl. Murphy, chairman of the grievance COM
| mittee of the fremen, called on General
Manager Stone at the companY's Office and
gave him verbal notice that unless their de-
mands were acquiesced in the men would
strike at four o'clock tomorrow morning.
Mr.. Hogss stated briefly what the men wanted
Mr.. Stone heard them through and asked if
| that was the ultimatum. They said it was
They told him they with Chief Arthur could
| be found at the Grand Pacific Hotel until 4
o'clock in the morning if he desired to COM
| municate with them. The interview was
| over and the committeeman retired
The programme of the striking engineers
| and fremen is to run all trains on the road
| to the end of the engineers division and stop
| them. Passenger trains leaving any point
before o'clock will be run to the end of
| the division and side-tracked. The immense
| suburban traffic of the road threatens to be
put to great inconvenience. General Man.
sger Stone of the road said to-day that prob
ably nearly all the sixteen hundred engineers
and fremen in the company's employ be-
longed to the brotherhoods. "We will not
attempt to make any fight. Our object is to
run most of our suburban and passenger
trains as usual. Our first endeavor will be to
get in our su burban passengers and take care
of all passengers for points not COW
ral hx-a lo,,o,
Der of men in our employ capable of
running engines in addition to yard
foremen and road foremen who nearly all are
old engineers. AT Aurora we have a laboratory
where q large number of young men are en-
gagged who have all learned the art of running
locomotive. All these will be pressed into
service to morrow. We have no arrangement
or contract to bring Reading railroad men
here, but we have sent east advertisements
for competent men and have received num-
Der of kilograms from individuals in Phila-
delphia and other Pennsylvania points saying
they would come and bring other engineers
with them. To all these l have replied that
we will give good wages and permanent en-
ployment to men of good character who
are competent to do the work" General
Worthy Foreman Grifiths of the Knights
of Labor said plainly this evening that the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers need
not expect the K. of L. to keep hands off
They had replaced about two hundred
Knights of Labor in the Missouri strike two
years ago and had done the same in the
Reading strike and they could not complain
If retaliatory measures We're adopted by the
Knights In the present strike.
Early this evening the officers of the rQad
said they had enough men to run three trains
each way. The company has been running
twenty-six such trains daily. If the strike
assumes the proportions that now seem prob
able about eleven thousand men will be in
volved. This number includes employees that
strike of the engineers and ffemen. Four
teen engineers from the Reading road arrived
here tonight and applied for work on the
Burlington. Superintendent Besslsr accept
ed their applications, supplied them with
signal books and took them to Aurora where
they will be put at work tomorrow morn
ing. These men are Knights of Labor.