The morning news., 1888-07-26
NEW LIFE IN THE STRIKE
THE 20" MEN REJECT THE OFFER
OF THE COMPANY.

A Concerted Fight to be Waged by
the Different Brotherhoods-A De-
mand That All the Old Men Be Taken
Back Unanimity All Along the
Line
CHICAGO, July 25.-Chicago division No
10, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
which is composed of representatives of all
the roads entering Chicago except the CO.,
Rock Island and Northwestern, held secret
session last night and adopted the following
unanimously.
ResotUed, That we heartily continue our flnan-
Cial support of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy strikers; that we ndorse the cOuserva-
tive management of Chief Arthur; and that the
committee be instructed TO have this resOlu
tion published.
The committee said in addition: "Our boys
are all opposed to any boycott being sprung
against the 'Q' road They believe that if
the strikers employ only moderate measures
the company will soon Oe glad to take them
back on reasonable terms. The best mon
on the Burlington road are in Illinois The
other lines of the system, whore inferior
men are working, have so many accidents
that the company will not much longer en-
dure their expensive ignorance.
ST. JosEPHs MEETING.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, July 25.-The Joint
brotherhoods met at 2 o'clock this afternoon
and concluded its deliberations, adjourning
at o'clock. 1t transpires now that the
business of this meeting had very little pur-
pose of working for "A ttlement Of the Bur
lngton difficulties. but on the contrary,
was held for tho purpose of making war to
the knife on the railroad system.
w. NJ. Armor, chairman of division No.
10 of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Eu-
gineers, offered the following, which was
unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That this meeting heartily indorses
the action taken by the Chicago Burlington and
Quincy men in refusing to declare the strike off
on the conditions offered.
WHAT THE CONDITIONS ARE.
The conditions referred to above are those
which are now being circulated among the
members of the brotherhood by Chairmen
Hoge and Murphy, and which arc as fol-
lows: That no man shall be blacklisted :
that the company shall take back such men
and as many as IL may elect; that for the
next two years the company shall employ
The late strikers in preference to other men,
and that it shall give letters of recon-
mendation to such men as it cannot give
employment. The brotherboods construe
this proposition as meaning that the com
pany can stop after taking back one or
a dozen men, and that the great mass of the
strikers will not be benefited in the least by
acceptance of such proposition. 1t was
unanimously resolved by the meeting this
afternoon that the company be compelled
to take back all of the men who went out
or strike or none.
NO CHANGE IN THE SITUATION.
This means that the situation to-day is
exactly as it was Feb 27 One of the OBJ
iects of this meeting was to arrange matters
Rponaio l1Ny 10 ba ctr - 10,
been claimed by many that the brother
hood treasury was depletei, and that the
eastern men were in favor of declaring the
strike off in order that assessments for the
support Of the strikers might be discontin-
ued 1t was stated positively by the
press committee of the brotherhood
| that the eastern men are heartily
in favor of continuing the strike, and that
sufficient funds were arranged for to carry
the strikers until such time as the four cr-
CARNATIONS would be federated. The
federation plan was indorsed by the meet
ing and it is quite certain that in less than
four months the scheme will be in
force. Each of the four brotherhoods will
hold conventions as follows to consider the
matter: brotherhood Of Engineers at Rich
mond in October; Firemen at Atlanta in
September; Switchmen at ST. Louis in
September Brakemen at Columbus, O., in
October. The first convention will adopt the
federation clause in It's constitution, which
will be accepted by the other conventions at
their meeting, and when this work is &c
complished, a grand advisory board will be-
established, to be madeup of delegates from
the four organizations 1t will be the bu,i T.
ness of the board to handle all difficulties
that cannot be adjusted by the various
grievance committees, and in extreme cases
the chiefs Of the four organizations will be
called in.