Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-02
GROWING MORE COMPLICATED.
New and Important Developments
in the Strike.
pLAcATlNe THE READING MEN.
Brotherhood Men Ordered on the
Pennsylvania Road - Prospects
That Parallel Lines W i'll BE.
come Involved.
To Placate the knights.


the Headquarters of the Burlington strikers
in this city regarding the strike Master
Workman Cahill, of the district assembly to
which the Philadelphia & Reading striking
engineers belong, has been in the city for
twenty-four hours, fixing up a settlement be-
tween the knights and brotherhood As a re-
suit the following telegram as sent tonight:
Henry Walton, chairman executive
board of locomotive firemen, Philadelphia
Sec all members on the Reading
road that have taken the places Of men that
went out December IA, 1887, and request
them to sever their connection with the COM
pany, and will pay them until they can find
employment elsewhere, and allow the men
now out to return to work. BY doing this
the bad feeling now existing will be obliter-
ated and will assist us to win our struggle
with the Burlington road.
F. p. SARGENT.
Mr. Walton has wired he would at once
transmit necessary orders to the brother
hood lodges. Chief Engineer Arthur then
transmitted the following:
Edward Kent, chairman executive board
engineers, New York: Go to Philadelphia
at once and use your influence to get all
brotherhood engineers who took the places of
the Reading strikers to leave the service of
the company, furnishing them with the tinan-
cal support of the brotherhood. The C..B.
~ W. are uSluS uUe SUTlhtTS W DcdU US Ill Vic
conflict. We must checkmate them.
p. M. ARTHUR.
Eighty of the striking Reading engineers
who arrived here Wednesday night to take
places returned late tonight.
The local press bureau at a late hour to-
night furnishes the following: Intelligence
of undoubted reliability was secured at a
late hour tonight to the effect that the chair
man of the engineers and fire fre
oil int
or connected with the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy system will meet in this city to-mor
row or next day. This meeting is prepara-
tory to general strike upon all these lines.
Paul the Chicago, Alton Il Northwestern,
the Wisconsin Central, the Rock Island 81
Minnesota, and the Northwestern.
A trump card that the strikers are holding
in reserve was described tonight by the gen
eral manager of railroad, other than the
Burlington, terminating here. He said:
"Granting that no compromise is arrived at
between the Burlington and the striking en-
| gineers, and that the company. succeeds
in filling the places of the strik-
will present itself which will
| not only embarrass the Burlington company,
but will prove dangerous to other corpora
| tions. The Burlington, with all its locomo-
| tives Manned can resume local business and
successfully conduct it; but there it will
| stick. Through business it cannot do If the
| brotherhood engineers should take stand
| against it. They could, and probably would,
| refuse to haul trains IN which burlington
| cars were made up, and such action would be
| effectual in blocking through business. II
| the connecting lines should insist upon the
| performance of the service, 1t would precipi-
| tate stI ike on their own roads and there is
not much doubt that under these circum-
| stances they would refuse to accept Bur
| lington cars. That company would have but
one resource. 1t could transfer its freight
at terminal points to foreign cars, but this
| would be an expensive process, and would
| place it at a fatal disadvantage against other
| roads.
The Burlington road to-day moved larger
number Of passenger trains than on any
previous day this week, and also report q
on most of the divisions. They
succeeded in getting four switch engines
at work in this city, and cleared out quite q
number of cars from the lumber district. An
evening paper to-day asserted that a confer
ence had been held between President Per
kins, General Manager Stone and Il. f.. Det
wier, representing the engineers and fire
men. This was emphatically denied thi!
evening by both sides.
The Situation in Chicago.
CHICAGO, March 1.-Chief Arthur's head
quarters at the Grand Pacific hotel wer'
much more cheerful to-day. Leaders of thu
brotherhood who were assembled there, evi
IDENTIFY have great hopes as to the result O.
the conference between Chiefs Arthur ant
President Perkins of the Burlington road
All maintain the greatest secresy concerning
the conference, and would admit nothing
beyond the fact that it occurred, and tina
they expected it to be resumed to-day.
swell, Mr.. Arthur, what about the confer
| ence!" asked Il reporter.
"Ah,n he answered, "you are touching or
a delicate ground. We have promised to sa.
nothing whatever about what passed be
tween us last night at this stage of the pro
ceedings. The men can rest assured, how
ever, that have done nothing to compro
mise their interests in any way"
"When is the conference to be resumed.
"That l can't say"
"Do you feel encouraged at the progres
thus far made in your negotiations with Per
kins."
"Well, would hardly put it that way
but you may say that l have hopes OF
friendly settlement of this trouble"
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy official
, We're more confident than ever this morning
They said number of freight trains in NJ
braska, Iowa, Michigan and Illinois had bee
moved Some through trains came in thi
| morning and the full suburban service is &c
| ing on. Fully 200 Reading engineers hav
arrived in Chicago and are being examined
Many have already been put to work.
!, A Conference With the Rock Island
, | hANsAs SlIr, lo', NhtrCu l.-lopcCidl lc
, | egram to the BEE. IS. NJ. Stevens, ex-gran
. | organizer Of the brotherhoods of locomotiv
l engineers and firemen, and G. j. Ringe,
| prominent member of the organization, a
! rived in Kansas City this morning. The
are acting under the direct order of Chic
Arthur and are here for the purpose {
aiding the local committee and to arrang
D matters with the Rosk Island road II
I strikers do not wish to interfere with I'll
0 business of any disintercsted road unles
l it is absolutely necessary and IL
I local managers of the Rock IslaI
;. having complained that their business hel
: was hindered by the strike, Chief Arthur /;
!. once sent the committee to see after the ma
/, ter. Mr., Ringe is not striker, but Roc
. Island man, and will pay particular attentic
{ to the company's interest The committ'
and the Rock Island officials held confe
Y ence at the union depot hotel this NOR
r ing at which the committee bour
: itself to see that Rock Islar
. freight engineers were not interfered wit
and also gave permission TO the Rock Islar
to handle passenger business between Ka
sas City and Cameron, between which poin
Q that company uses the Burlington track
u Trains will stop regularly at local station