Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-25
ANOTHER RAILROAD TIE UP.
The c., B. and Q. Engineers and Fire
men to Q u1t Work To-Day.

men to Qu1t Work To-Day.
CHICAGO, Feb. 24.-The Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy road will probably be tied
up tomorrow from one end to the other.
Freight as well passenger traffic will be
stopped and most of the switch engines will
be abandoned. The Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers and the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen have decided upon a
strike as a last resort to enforce their de-
mands, and as both organizations are very
strong on this road as well as elsewhere they
expect to tie up the road and win the strike.
A few days ago Chief Arthur announced that
his organization intended to do away with
classified wages and make the pay of all men
the same for the same work without refer
ence to length of time they had been em-
ployed by the company. This conclusion
was reached by the brotherhood at its ses
| sion in Chicago last October and a resolution
was adopted to enforce the new plan all over
ganization was strong enough to
do SO. The principal reason for this step,
as Mr.. Arthur explains, was that the
| roads were beginning to discharge men who
had been in the service long time and were
drawing better pay and to put in their
places men who were not veterans, but were
capable of doing the work as we'll and will
| ling to take lower wages. The result was
| that engineers of long experience had diff
| Guilty in getting work and the general stand
| ard ofsswages was reduced. The same applied
to firemen who got Fifty to sixty five per cent.
| of the pay of engineers. After several
| months of labor the men have succeeded in
| introducing uniform scale of wages for all
| engineers road service on the Chicago,
| Milwaukee and ST. Paul, the Chicago and
| Northwestern, the Chicago and Alton, the
! Wabash, the Chicago and Atlantic and other
western lines. The new scale is 81
cents a mile for freight engineers and
l 4 cents for passenger engineers and 60
per cent. for the fremen. All their
negotiations were successful until they called
| on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy. For
| three weeks past committee of the engineers
and firemen of the road with Mr.. Arthur and
| Grand Master Sargent of the fremen at the
head have been negotiating with General
| Manager Stone and superintendent Bessler
| to bring about similar arrangement to those
on the other roads, but to no purpose. There
| are about fifteen hundred engineers and fire.
nearly evenly divided between the two
/ trades.
| WHAT EXPERIMENTING DOES.
1t Loses a Game For New Haven
| Waterbury wins Her First Ganae In
This City-The New Haven Players
| Dissatisfied Hartford Defeats
at New Bedford.
| Does experimenting paya The answer can
| be easily found in the following:
| Waterbury Z, New Haven 5.
The management of the New Haven polo
team last night attempted to experiment. a
little against the Waterburys. Hallett was
put in at center and Watson at balf-back.
The result is given above.
For two weeks past the New Haven team
has been badly broken up by the manage
ment. First one player WAS put at center,
| then another at half-back, and it is wonder
IL 1ozk &1avn 1,an
The men were changed around SO much that
they could not get used to each others
moves And yet for all this people expect
| the New Havens to win.
Since Dunning was released the team has
had no regular center, and this will der1or-
alize any team. A good one was found in
| Leydon, but he isn't played more than half
the time, nobody knows why. Last night
HaNett was put in that position. Hallett
has not played center before and was dead
failure, and why in the name of common
seuse he was put there last night is more
| than any sane man can tell.
Hallett was of course an ignominious fail
ure at center. He also played half back part
of the time. If he was in either of his posi-
tons once during the game no one knew it.
He was vainly trying to make goals, as he
has said that he is going to make
more than any other half-baok in the league.
HalIett can't play center. That is a settled
face
Watson played half-back magnifcently
He saved Fuller score or more of stops.
What was more, he stayed in his position
At center, however, he was of no use.
Connors and Newcomb worked as hard as
ever, but they played in hard luck. Connorf
was hurt several times. Once Williams hill
| him in the neck. Connors seems to be very
| unfortunate of late.
For Waterbury Conway played his usual
mean game He wasn't in his position once
during the game and Babbitt had lots OF
work to do in consequence. Williams played
| fine game
The New Ravens should have won the
game and would have won if they had had 6
center who could have played center. Prob
ably no more experiments will be made. II
isn't the time of season to make them. By
the one last night the New Ravens are only
| three games ahead Of Hartford.
| NEW EIVRN POSITIONS.