Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-07
The Burlington Road and the Brother.
hood Still Striving for Mastery.
Waiting With Anxiety for the Outcome
Of Mondays Meeting.
Arthur and Sargent Send a Circular
Letter to the Men.
The Road Has Over Three Hundred
Engineers at Work.

CHICAGO, March 3.-The meeting on Mon
day Of chairmen OF the grievance commit
tees is looked forward to with great anxiety
by both the Burlington officials and
the Brotherhood officers. Upon the
outcome OF this meeting depends the future
course OF Chief Arthur. Should a reason
able excuse be formed for it on any one
Western road, the Brotherhood men will
probably be called out. It is believed by
many that every Western road is liable to
render a strict neutrality construction or
to have it's men taken off by Tuesday
morning. Officers OF the Brotherhood now
admit nothing satisfactory will come OF
their order to engineers and firemen OF the
Reading road to quit work and dispatches
from the East this morning confirm the
belief. Only about thirty Of the Reading
men were induced to GO back to their
homes. At the Burlington Offices it was
not thought the Brotherhood would
CARRY OUT ITS THREAT
to call of the engineers and firemen on
other roads. Their object" said one
official, lis to endeavor to bring such pres
sure from the public and other roads TO
bear on US as will compel us to accede to
their demands. We have made no attempt
to forward through freight and will not at
tempt to do so until we have completely
moblized our local traffic. Then we will |
receive and handle through freight, and |
should any attempt be made to cut us off |
from accommodation by connecting lines, |
We will try and see what virtue there is in |
the interstate commerce law. We can COM
pei other roads to handle our cars, or we
can make them pay $4,000 for every car
they refuse. We are moving trains now
almost to our usual capacity on the Iowa,
Nebraska and Missouri lines and will have
our line service complete next week. The
fight on other roads by the Brotherhood
will be made solely on account OF freight
traffic"
THE SITUATION AT CHICAGO.
There was no apparent change to-day in
the passenger service of the Burlington
road Suburban trains arrived and left
on time. Other trains which came in were
ones which had been running for several
days. An official OF the com pany said:
The through passenger business is not as
yet being either solicited or received. No.
tice was issued this evening that the com.
pany'r freight houses in this city will be
opened Monday for the reception OF mer-
Chandise for stations in Illinois only. 1t is
desired that shipments for points not !
reached by any other road be delivered" :
The notice says: We expect to make rsa- I
sonaby prompt delivery, but time will
not be as good as ordinarily" Chief Ar
thur and Sargent are not very hopeful OF I
any good coming from their request to the 8
out. They are confident, however, that .
there are
NOT ENOUGH IDLE ENGINEERS
in the East to materially assist the Bur {
lington, and that the road will arrive at r
the limit OF it's resources within few days. {
They expressed the belief this evening that c
they hold the whip hand on the strike, but
do not expect there will be many develop y
ments until Monday, when the chairmen OF
the various grievance committees get to-
gether. To keep up the spirits OF the p
strikers, a circular letter was sent out c
today signed by Arthur and Sar o
gent complimenting the men on their q
firm stand and devotion to the people and 4
to their duty andiexpressing the firm belief
that their cause will triumph. Mr.. Arthur o
was this evening handed a copy Of tele t.
gram which was sent this afternoon by t
twelve Reading engineers to their master
workman in Philadelphia, saying: I'VE p
are on our wav back. Stop the boys" 81
Grand Master Sargent showed to the AS c.
soclated Press representative kilograms G.
from many Western points showing that l
the men are standing urn and are confident
OF ultimate victory. Y
OVER THREE HUNDRED AT WORK. o
At p. m. special train of three coaches v
left the Union Depot carrying westward no a
men, said to be tried engineers and firemen. {
They marched over from the COM .
panys headquarters in charge p
OF the Iowa division superintendent and b
a few Pinkerton men. The ITO will be "
dropped along the line between here and e
Council Bluffs where most needed. This A
last batch makes the third since Thursday t
dred shipped to points in Illinois, lows il
and Nebraska. a
ARTHUR SHOCKED. .,
Chief Engineer Arthur had not heard OF
the tragedy at Brookfeld, Missouri, in d
which Bridge Foreman Bostwick fatally
shot John Roxy, Brotherhood engineer,
tonight. When 1t was read to him Mr.. v
Arthur seemed affected, his eyes dropped to C.
The floor, and after a minutes study he c
said I'm sorry, deeply sorry. depre- o
cate violence Of any sort, for there is nothing Ii
10 be gained by it. The instructions given d
10 our agents who left headquarters for a
outlying points we're to be particular to q
request our men to stay away from COM G
sahy property, 80 that just such trouble D
as this would be averted. This was sup
pIemented by telegram of the same tenor +
10 the Brotherhood on the Burlington Y
system cannot discuss the case further Ii
ior have received no official advice about G
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