The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-02
YESTERDAYS SECOND EDITION.
THE following items of news appeared in our
Second Edition of Sunday
talk with Chies Arthur.

CLEVELAND, O., March 81 To Plain Dealer
representative to-day Chief Arthur said. in an
swer to inquiry whether or not he intended
TO resign his Office, owing to the revolt of the
radical element in the brotherhood mo, sir.
The radical element, you term it, represents
but small percentage of the Brotherhood. The
course of the executive officers. Until such
time as the opposition may gain the ascendency
the officers will stick 60 THAR posts and do their
duty. have no intention Of resigning."
The afternoon dispatches state that all the
engineers on the st. Paul road have been called
out. and that the strike is likely to extend TO
every road leading out Of Chicago. What do
you know about these movements"
Nothing The men are striking on their own
accord Thew will not receive the support
Of the Brotherhood. They cannot
have ordered no strike nor given my permission
to anyone, except the Burlington engineers, to
leave their posts. Circumstances might arise
of course which would induce me to sanction
such strikes. but they have not up to
the present moment
WHAT is the status of che strikef"
There is change. The Burlington com
pany is not doing at the present moment 10 per
cent. of their regular business. IL is simply q
question of endurance; how long will the stock
holders of the rn,d BusnEtoI road ar,. sub
by the president and general man
ager OF that road Even If the strike
sbould be ordered of tomorrow it would be q
year before the Burlington could recover it's
normal traffic which has been diverted to other
roads The stockholders have vast financial In-
terests at stake and 1t is not probable that they
will deliberately wreck the prosperity of their
valuable property to achieve = hollow victory
over the engineers"
"Do you think that the strike will become gen.
eralY"
az do think that it will If we had listened to
the opportunities of tho hot-heads. every road
in the country would have besn tied up to day.
It lay in the power of the executive officers to
stop railroad traffic IN the United States entire
IY, but refused to do These
new strikes in Chicago are mostly local
the differsnt roads will reconsider their sction
in compelling their men to handle 20" cars, and
that the trouble will be settled that way. Please
understand that the Brotherhood has not ordered
any strike except that of the Burlington. The
men are acting on their cwn responsibility, and
will not receive cent from the treasury of the
Brotherhood unless We sanction their conduct.
The Santa Fe strike was outrage-no, l do
not know as / will say that; it was a grave mis-
take, which we rectifed possible.
There has been no conference in this city be-
tween officers of the Brotherhood and the Lake
Shore management. the grievance committee
of the Lake Shore road is in Chicago and will
attend to their own affairs there"
In conclusion Chief Arthur repeated, 81 do
not intend to resign. We expect TO freeze the
any new strike. We do not approve of strikes.
We have received assurance from members of
the Brotherhood all over the country that they
will furnish financial aid It is simply ques-
ton of endurance. I do not believe the strike
will spread outside OF Chicago to any extent
The conservative engineers still control the
Brotherhood"