, 1888-02-28
The situation in Chicago.

ShlCAdO. feD. 2S.-Ihe suburban
trains were the only ones to come in over
the Burlington road up to 10 o'clock this
morning, and the engines of these we're in
charge of officials of the road. The only
train to leave the depot up to 10 o'clock
Yss the fast mail, which departed at 8
O'Clock, manned by an engineer and fire.
man from the brotherhood.
General Manager Stone said this morn
ing that all OF the 600 engineers and
fremen employed by the road had struck
with the single exception of an engineer
near Galesburg.
is crowded with applicants for the vacant
positions. They we're put through an
examination, and before ii o'clock about
fifty applicants had been accepted and
sent to the yards.
The company has not yet attempted to
move any freight trains, bu5 they will
start their noon passenger trains for Mis-
souri, river points as usual. No trouble is
anticipated from the trainmen.
FREIGHT OFFICES SHUT DOWN.
The Burlington road this evening sent
out a notice to all connecting lines that it
will probably be q week or more before
the company will be able to receive freight
from them, and asking that it be given to
other roads. This afternoon GOO of the
freight handlers Of the Chicago, Burling.
ton Il Quincy line were laid off and every
freight office in the city shut down in con-
sequences of the engineers strike, as no
work remains for them to do.
AN ACCIDENT.
The first accident to occur following the
commencement of the strike took place
this afternoon at Naperville, Ills. No
one was killed, but the results could hard
ly be called trifing, six men being more
or less injured. Passenger train No. .,
on which G. +. Geyre, general foreman of
the Burlington shops at Aurora, was act
ing as engineer, ran short of steam about
3 p. m. The engine was cut lose from
the train to run ahead, and then in com
ing back to gain couple on the train, be-
came to a certain extent unmanageable
ON the down grade and collided with the
cars.
II CAUSE OF II STRIKE.
Chief Engineer Arthur in an interview
this evening said The publication by
General Manager Stone of all the propo.
sitions offered by the men tends to mislead
the public. We are willing to discuss
those propositions one by one, and in case
they failed to convince Mr.. Stone that
theywere Just and fair we would have made
concessions. The strike did not occur be-
cause the schedule We offered was not
adopted, but because when the question
of wages was reached Mr.. Stone re-
fused to do anything at all. We receeded
from our first proposition and offered
to accept three and a half cents, which
Mr.. Stone refused in a most positive
manner. He made no propositions to us
at all, and the fight now is purely on a
question OF pay. Mr.. Stone says we want
to put unskilled labor on a par with skilled
labor. We venture the assumption that
there is no unskilled labor on engines on
any road,in the United States.
Does Mr.. Stone mean to say that he
has unskilled engineers on any branch of
his road2 Would he go into court in case
of a damage suit and swear that he had?
Would Mr.. Stone like to have the public
believe that the engineers on branch lines
are inferior TO those on the main lines? II
an engineer who runs a limited express is
willing that an engineer who runs an &C.
c~ommodation train should receive the
same pay he does, why should the com
pany object"
Mr.. Arthur did not think Knights OF
Labor would try to assist the Burlington
company in any way. He said: What
ever individual members of the brother
hood may have done, we never interfcred
in the knights of Labor STRIKE