St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-27

stopping at the following stations: Chi
cago. Blue Island avenue, Cleveland,
Columbus and Indiana Central crossing.
Douglas Park, Millard avenue, Craw-
ford, Hawthorne, Clyde, La Vergne,
riverside, La Grange, Western Springs,
Highlands, Hinddale, Slough, Claren-
don, Hills, GreggS, East Grove, and
Downer'S Grove. AT a moderate esti-
mate these trains accommodate 1000
passengers each way daily.
THE GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE
of the engineers, of which Mr.. Hoge, of
McCOok, Neb., is chairman, is composed
of members of the local divisions of the
Engineers Brotherhood on the Chicago,
Burlington IL Quincy system. 1t is
standing committee, and has had entire
charge of the negotiations with Mr..
Stone, the general manager of the rail
road. The chairman says that the COM
mlttee'S direct negotiations failing, Chief
Arthur was sent for, and he attempted
an adjustment of the difficulty. He also
failed. Then the committee, after the
strike was determined upon, agreed
that it should begin at 4 a. m. Mon
engineers will be at the end of
their runs, and fewest trains will be in
motion. All the local divisions, and
through them every member of the
order employed on the Chicago, Bur-
lIngton II Quincy system have been no
tilted not to go to work tomorrow morn
ing unless especially advised by the
chairman of the grievance committee to
report for duty. The firemen holding
positions dependent to those of the en-
glneerS have acted with the latter in
everything, and unless Mr.. Stone con-
cludes TO accede to the terms of the en-
glneerS no engines will be run out by
the aid of members of either brother
hood tomorrow. Trains on the road
will be run to the end of the engineers
leaving any point before 4 o'clock will
be run to the end of the division and
Side-tracked.
THE MANAGERS OF THE STRIKE
were the coolest men in town to-day. and
at a seaSOnable hour this evening Mr..
Arthur calmly retired to his private
room at the Grand Pacific hotel and
went to bed. So did Mr.. Sergeant, so
likewise Mr.. Hoge: ditto Mr.. Murphy.
The officers of the railroad company
were acting with equal deliberation.
During all the weeks of negotiations
Mr.. Stone had not been idle. An agent
of his road went to Reading, Pa, and
employed all the trainmen he could who
AlNtO OSOI llllONu OuU VI clll-
ployment by the strike on the Phila-
delphia d. Reading lines. Other points
were reached by telegraph offering
work to idle engineers. Every man in
the shops who could manage an engine
was ordered to be ready to go out with
one. Applicants for jobs as engineers
got them in hurry. Early this evening
the officers of the road said they had
enough men to run three trains each
way. The company had been running
twenty-SiX such trains daily. If the
strike assumes the proportions that now
seem probable, about IL 600 men will be
involved. This number includes en-
plOyes that will be thrown out of en-
ployment by the strike of the engineers
and firemen.
IT WILL BE REMARKABLE.
The strike promises to be the most re-
markable ever known, for in it the
strongest single labor organization in
existence has been pitted against
the largest railroad corporation in
the West, and one of the greatest
in mileage and wealth in the world.
Should the strike long continue, it is
probable that, in addition to the 1,4OO
men directly involved, the great ma
jority of the 10000 employees of the COM
pany will be thrown out of work, the 25,-
600 members of the engineers brother
hood throughout the country called
upon to contribute of their savings, and
the industries of vast section of cOun-
try tributary to the road subjected to a
partial paralysis. The far-reaching eff
fects of the strike can be inferred from
the fact that the road has 5000
miles of main and leased lines, grid
ironing the states of Illinois, Iowa, Mis-
souri, and Nebraska. From Chicago it
reaches to Denver, Col. over 1000 miles
away, and Cheyenne, Wyo., equally as
far. Minneapolis to the North and st.
Louis to the South are within it's reach
the territory of an empire.