The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-02-29
MoTIoNLEss WHEELS.
Travel at standstIil on the surilng-
ton Railroad.
a Green Hand at the Throttle Causes
Bad Accident.
PowderIy Urges the Knights to
Abstain from interfering.

CHICAGO, Feb. 2S.-Everything was dull
at the Burlington depot today. The large
hallway was crowded with men seeking en-
ployment. A majority were firemen, and not
more than two dozen were engineers. Only
two old engineers were reported to have
come back. Only three suburban trains
were run each way. In addition, the fast
mail and Council Bluffs train were run to-
day. The Brotherhood of Engineers refused
to move the fast mail and the company had
10 put new men on. A despatch from the
general manager of the Burlington & Mis-
souri, road at Omaha says that today pas
senger train was moved each way on the
main line and the branches east Of Red
Cloud and Hastings. At MeCook, the crews
attempted to move the trains East and West
yesterday but the engines were dragged OIL
and the lines west tied up. Arrests will be
made and trains started II possible.
The officers Of the c., b. q q. state that
applications for positions as engineers and
fremen are coming in constantly from all
over the country, but the company does not
accept anybody except after rigid examin-
alton as to his competency, and do not ex-
pect the road to be in running order again
for at least ten days. About fifty men so
was made to move freight today. The
Brotherhood Of Engineers hint that the diff
culties will come to an early termination.
The Presidents Statement.
Mr. Perkins, President of the Burlington
road, has arrived from the East. He says
that he regrets very much that the men
should have seen fit to act so hastily, and he
is surprised that Mr.. Arthur should have ap-
proved so sudden termination OF old and
satisfactory relations. He thinks the en-
gineers are making mistake in attempting
to force railroads to unreasonable terms.
The Chicago, Burlington g. Quincy is paying,
has always paid and expects to pay as good
wages as other roads. But the company is
responsible 10 the public, and 1t cannot con
cede the right of its employees to say what
its methods of pay or its regulations and
safeguards shall be, touching the life and
safety of the hundreds of thousands OF per-
sons it transports.
a Green Hands Blunder.
A despatch from Rock Island, ILL.,, says:
Passenger train No. /. on the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul road, last evening, was
Of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy at
East Clinton, mile south of Fulton juno
ton. The Milwaukee engine and mail and
express cars were all demolished, and the
baggage car was turned over. p. r. Will
helm, Of this city, American express route
agent was probably fatally injured, and
Thomas Morrison was seriously hurt. Both
were on the Milwaukee train. In the "Q''
engine cab were the engineer, fireman' con-
ported fatally hurt. The cars were piled up
all over the track, and elegraph wires were
all broken. The blame for the accident is
laid on the 20" engineer, green hand, who
lost control of his engine and did not stop at
the crossing.
The Militia Called For.
DENVER, Col, Feb. 2S-It is reported
here that there was serious trouble at Nc
Cook, Neb., today, growing out Of the strike.
An engineer, a non-union man, working
locomotive in the yards, was asked by the
Brotherhood men to get off. He refused,
and was dragged off the locomotive by mob
beaten almost to death and left insensible.
The strikers then took the engine, ran 1t
about a mile and killed it. The town au-
thorites arrested number OF the leaders In
a justice. The strikers then became SC un-
ruly and boisterOus as to necessitate active
steps to protect the city from damage. A
telegram was sent to Lincoln with the re-
quest that the State militia be ordered out.
PowderiY's Words to His Followers.
SCRANTON. Pa, Feb. 2S.-General Master
Workman Powderly has given out the fol-
lowing in regard to the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy strike:
/ have nothing to say concerning the mat
/ do not know the particulars but ii it Is
true that the men are making An effort to do
away with the European custom of grading
the men, up and down, regardless Of merit,
then they are in the right in making the fight
for equality. Ny opinion Of q man who
for his rights, is that he deserves
the contempt and scOrn Of every
man who loves justice. 1t is
true that members of the Brotherhood
have. on repeated occasionr. taken the
places of members of the Knights. 1t is
true that away back in the early days Of the
seventies, the Brotherhood men did the same
thing with the machinists and blackSmiths
at the command of theirchief. 1t is true the
Brotherhood men stabbed the Knights In
the back on the Southwest system, by tax
ing their places after urging them to strike
with a pr0ffer of assistance II they would do
so. 1t Is true the knights were used as cats
paws by the Brotherhood men in that strug-
gle. 1t is true that many engineers were
burned in raking out chestnuts for Others
1t is to the eternal shame of the Brotherhood
men that they stopped to such acts, mean
ness and treachery and unmanly conduct. A
man who takes the another's place. when that
other is engaged in struggle.with corpora
ti0n Is scab whether he be member OF
the Knights or a member of the Brotherhood.
When Charles Wilson ordered the mem
bers of the Brotherhood to take the places Of
members of the maehinists or blacksmitbs'
union in 1872 and 1875 he did an unmanly
and cowardly act When p. IL. Arthur al
lowed the members Of the Brotherhood, over
which he exercised such discipline, to tamper
with the rights of striking empl0ye S0f the
Missouri, Pacific and Wabash system, two
years ago, he too, violated that principle of
honor which should restrain a man when
about to do wrong. 1t mattered not that the
strikes in question were not ordered by the
chief officers of the knights. If the men in
terested felt that they were right, and took
up the tight as employees, regardless OF what
organization they belonged to and on their
SO and, under the laws of the land, members
OF the Brotherhood were not obliged to make
cravens OF themselves as many did. Taking
the mems places was mean and dastardly.
Ii they were taken with the sanction of the
chief of the Brotherhood, he too is mean
and dastardly
But two wrongs never make a right.
What Is mean and dastardly in member OF
the Brotherhood cannot become grand and
noble in a member of the Knights. No
knight should belittle his manhood by stoop-
ing to such dirty work. If it is the habit of
the Brotherhood to do such work as taking
strikers places, in Heavens name let them
have the monopoly Of it. Knights, If you
take my advice you will stand back and al
low the struggle to 90 on. Let the Brother
hood demonstrate its power to stand alone
without any ''entangling alliances with those
other trades" Let the past be forgotten, no
matter how bitter you may feel toward these
men. Remember they have not stepped out
of the rut of selfishness vet. 1t is best to
teach them what manhood means by keeping
hands of the Chicago, Burlington Il Quincy
strike. The spectacle presented of men of
labor who belong to different organizations,
rushing at each others throats whenever a
strike takes place, must be gratifying
thing for their employers. 1t must indeed
give satisfaction to the corporations to know
that neither the Knights or the Brotherhood
men dare in future ask for better treatment
with any assurance Of receiving it. 1t must
be consoling thought to the monopolists to
know his power is not half so dangerous to