St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-01
willing to submit the case Of the men

OSltlOn to that effect came from the
company, was first communicated to
the railroad officials by the United
press. Apparently it took them by sur
prise, although according to the chief
they had known all along that the rep
resentatives of the men were willing to
submit their cause to the Judgment OF
an unbiased tribunal. AT any rate it
furnished a justification for
A PROLONGED CONFERENCE
between President Perkins. General
Manager Stone, General Passenger
Agent Morton and a representative OF
| the legal department and it was several
hours later when the following was is
sued as the reply of the company: In
reply to the suggestion that the road
should make proposition to arbitrate,
President Perkins says: "Unfortu-
nately there is nothing to arbitrate, be-
cause the demands made on us are OF
such nature as to make it Impossible.
We must control our property and can
not submit to anybody questions WHICH
relate to the best exercise of the skill
and experience of the management Ill
the conduct of the road. No other
questions are involved, because the
managers have offered, in their answer
to the demands, to adjust and eQuallZe
wages, and they are ready to take that
question up at any time"
This reply was generally accepted
among the men as an ultinatum that
the company was disposed to fight to
the bitter end; that no hope for COM
promise remained, and that nothing
now remained for the brotherhoods but
prolonged fight or unconditional sur
render. The thirty or more engineers
that arrived here from the East last
TO n offices
of the railroad at an early hour this
morning and put through an exhaustive
examination. According to the officials,
one and all came off with flying cOIOrs,
and were at once dispatched to various
points on the system, where their SerV-
ices were most needed.
HOW THE ROAD FARED
during the day from the officials stand
point, can best be told in the language
of Mr.. Morton. 1--WE sent out eighteen
suburban trains each way" he said to-
night, against four on Monday and
nine yesterday, while our a. m, 1:20
p. m. and $50 p. m. mail trains went
through as though nothing unusual had
occurred. The early morning and late
night through trains, both OF which
have but little passenger patronage,
were abandoned. The incoming through
trains arrived in good shape. From
Supt. HOldridge, of the Burlington u
Missouri in Nebraska, with headQuar-
ters at Omaha, we have dispatch say
ing that he is clearing up what freight
there is now on the lines of most of his
divisions, and that he expects to move
all freight offered tomorrow. Supt.
Duggan, at CreStOn, Ia, wires us that
he sent this afternoon two freightS west
and one south. Reports from the south
are to the effect that the prospects are
good for the prompt movement OF both
freight and passenger traffic. We are
not yet at liberty to assert that the back
bone of the strike is broken, but we do
think that we have both feet OH its spinal
column, and that the column is slowly
giving way"
. A large number of dispatches were re-
ceived at the offices of the company dur
! ing the day. Offering the services of
fremen, to all of which word was re-
turned that the road had more than it
would need. Other dispatches stated
that batch of seventy engineers from
New York, New England, Pennsylvania
and Michigan, another batch of forty
from Pennsylvania, and third batch OF
thirty-five from New York would be
here tomorrow. A dispatch from st.
Louis stated that the Wabash engineers
who run trains over the thirty-three
mile stretch of the st. Louis, KeOkuk &
Northwestern between KeOkuk and
st. Peters, operated by the Burlington,
had notified the district superintendent
that they didn't propose to do any more
running after to-day. According to the
reports received up to late hour very
few have responded to the notification
of the company, by applying for their
time check at noon to-day. In fact, the
dispatches indicated that
LESS THAN A BAKERS DOZEN
were in so urgent need of funds as to
warrant them in drawing the pay that
was due to them up to o'clock Monday
morning by the officials. This was
taken as an indication that the men
were anything but desirous OF having
their connection with the company ter
minated in accordance with the ulti-
matum. The men at thiSend, however,
do not look at the matter in the same
light. I'VE are not so hard up for the
almighty dollar" said the spokesman
for group at the Fourteenth street
rendezvous, ''as to go rushing after it
it we will go for it. But that won't be
yet awhile"
Asa unique contribution to the liter
ature of the strike the following is in
teresting. 1t was received this after
noon from one-dollar-per-day emplOye
located at division Headquarters Point,
Ill.,, and bore numerous signatures:
Please pardon this intrusion, but |
wish to say in regard to this strike, as
an employe and in behalf of the en-
ployes of the company at this place, who
are working for low wages-SOme of us
for mere pittance and can scarcely
exc out living-and the most of US
with as much intelligence as the lordly
engineer, and work that some of US do
requires more education and as much
common sense as that of this very
smart gentleman, who sits there and
pulls the throttle. Some of us work
for twelve and even thirteen hours for
day for the sum of 81, $l.10, $l.20 and
$1.33 per day. 1t does not seem reason
able to us to raise the wages of those
who are now getting the highest pay
of any other WOrkmen on the road.
Therefore we most earnestly protest
and object to the company's complying
with their demands without considering
the condition of those who are working
for these low wages. We have never
formed any organization. we have not
entered any complaint and have not
asked for higher pay. We desire the
prosperity of the company, and will not
do anything to cripple and injure its
business, as the present strike is bound
to do. Again we say we earnestly enter
our protest against your acceding to the
demand of this conspiracy to the detri-
ment of the rest of your employees"
SUMMED UP,
the third day of the greatest strike in
the history of the twin Brotherhoods
of Engineers and Firemen closes with
the company satisfied with the headway
it has made and sanguine as to the fut-
ure, and with its eX-employes good
natured and confident that in their
game of waiting and watching they hold
the trump card.
At the meeting of the strikers this
morning, the character of the men en-