Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-04
BECOMING GENERAL.

!. The Result of the Buriington's AttemT
81 to Force Other Roads to HanaI
Ill Thefa Freight-Bad Faith of the
TO Men They Induced to Come on.
CHIcAGo, March 81.-The following strike
In rapid succession were the result to-da,
J OF the Burlington roads 6rst attempt t.
! resume forcing freight on other roads
Almost at the very outset strike oc
Cured on the Fort Wayne system invoIv
ingfor the first time the undoubted exten
sion OF the trouble to roads leading East
from Chicago. The st. Paul road had beer
completely tied up between midnight and
daylight. Chairman Hoge, leader OF the
brotherhood In the absence OF Chic,
Arthur. intimated early that before an.
| other midnight there might be precipitated
a succession of strikes unparalleled in this
city. One on the Panhandle occurred as
early as @. M, but was
OVERCOME BY THE OFFICIALS
showing that no workmen had been asked
to handle Burlington cars. At 10 a. M.
the Burlington made up train OF fifteen
cars which was quickly transferred to the
Fort Wayne road, while at the same time
twenty-five cars wer- made up and started
for the Lake Shore road with forty Pinker
ton men..aboard The transfer, however, v as
made without disturbance. At
Fort Wayne officials ordered switching
crew to take @ train from the siding at
Sixteenth street and place it on the Fort
Wayne track. The men promptly refused
nQ fhofr avarrs r.,
ana IN q lew moments all the crews in the
yards quit work, engineers, firemen and
swItchmen. just then the 2:2O Fort Wayne
passenger train outward bound, came
along. At Sixteenth street the engineer and |
fireman learned Of the strike aud left the |
engine. The conductor soon volunteered /
TO run the engine fireman was found and /
The train proceeded after slight delay. /
The Fort Wayne dispatchers say
THEY HAVE ASSURANCES
rom other passenger engineers that they
you'd not go out, but not a great deal OF
dependence is placed on them. Along the
Inc OF the st. Paul road freight business
vas paralyzed and passenger traffic almost
uspended. AS sooI as inbound passenger
rains reached the depot and were un-
oaded, the engineers backed them out to
vesIern avenue ana abandoned them. |
his afternoon the engineers, firemen :
nd switchmen OF the st. Paul road
cid meeting and sent a committee ! !;
? Superintendent Earling. They stated to | :
i'm they would agree to handle empty .
ut not loaded @ cars, Earling asked them
, submit their proposition in writing and :
sreed to forward it General Manager Mil. I
: at Milwaukee. Fifty men said to be !;
gular freight and passenger conductors q
! the Council Bluffs division OF the road +
rived here this morning. having been 4
ought by the st. Paul people t., fill the 4
aces OF striking engineers, tiremen and p
but after brief talk with the :
ader OF the st. Paul strikers decided that
NOT MAN Il
'uld throw switch. During the day as =,
my as dozen men called on the Mayor
ID complaints against the Chicago, Bur- W
gton d Quincy managers. They claimed pl
" were induced to come here from the "
st by promises of positions as brakemen, q.
ltchmen, etc., but on arrival were de. ol
red incompetent and refused either work ye
home again. They claim !"
be without money and in bad plight. +.
say they have as companions in their Ea lel
ery two or three hundred whose condi. na m
a is exactly similar. The Mayor prom n sil
to see the Burlington people. ~,