The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-03-03
Will It's Results Be Such as They
Anticipate?
Complaints That Roads Were violating
Their Neutrality Agreemsnt-A
GeaeraI Strike May Follow


of Reading employees brought Chief
| Arthur and Grand Master Sargent
official information that $50 members of
| their organization had taken the places
of knights of Labor on the Reading
| road. Both Chief Arthur and Mr.. Sar-
gent have denied repeatedly that they
| knew that their men had taken the
places of the Reading striking em-
pioyees. They assured Cahill that they
| had no knowledge other than vague
newspaper reports that this thing had
| occurred Both gentlemen expressed
willingness to play fair with the knights
of Labor, and an agreement was entered
into by which Arthur and Sergeant
agreed to request their men to quit the
Reading employment. In return Cahill
| agreed to keep i50 to 200 Reading
engineers in the city from taking places
on the Burlington. These men, it was
agreed, would be held back twenty-four
hours. If the Brotherhood men obeyed
the request OF their chief ard quit the
Reading road the Knights of Labor here
sSwonld return home.
After the settlement with the Reading
men was made Arthur and his comrades
ready TO make concessions to the COM
pany They thought the strike would
be brought to a speedy terminus if the
| agreement with Cahili was enforced.
Chairman Hoge, of the Engineers and
Firemen's Grievances Committee. said
complaints had reached him that several
roads were violating the neutrality
agreement. He declined to say which
were the offenders, but the Rock Island
and companies using the st. Louis bridge
| were on the list. Secretary Debs, of the
Firemen's Brotherhood, said that unless
this assistance was stopped general
strike would be ordered within forty
eight hours.
The agreement between the Brother
| hood of Engineers and the Knights of
Labor, whereby the former were to call
their men out of the Pennsylvania coal
| regions, on the Roading Road and the
| latter to keep away from the fight in the
| Chicago, Burlington and Quincy matter.
had no apparent effect on the number of
applicants at the general Offices of the
Burlington Company this forenoon. The
majority of the men, however, were
| Young. and looked more like firemen
than engineers. The officials OF the
company claim that the situation is
steadily improving. They accepted 100
/ men yesterday, and expect to put
on 100 more to-day. Fourteen + ass
enger trains We're sent out from
/ Chicago o.day and sixteen came in.
| The company commenced running coal
trains on the Chicago division to-day,
and it is claimed that they are running
local freight trains on some portions of
| their system. A number of switch en-
| gines are at work in the yards and the
lumber district, and the most important
work there is being taken care OF. The
officers of the company are confident
that they will be able to send several
freight trains out tomorrow. They do
not think that the deal between the
Brotherhood and Knights of Labor will
have any effect on the new men.
MORE READING ENGINEERS.
| PrrTsBURa, Pa. March I. a.-Another
car load of engineers who were form
erly employed on the Reading system
passed through the city this morning Ell
route to Chicago. There were about
thirty in the party. sixteen of them
being from Shamokin and the Others
from Philadelphia. One of the men who
was asked about the report that Chiei
Arthur would call the Brotherhood en-
gineers off the Reading road saidl ''Ws
have heard the rumor, but have had nc
official notification that it is true. 4
such prove to be correct we are willing
TO turn around and come back TO fighl
our own fight on the Reading and leave
the Burlington trouble solely in tin
hands of the Brotherhood.
A. Carlton, of the General Execu
tive Board of Knights of Labor, VIII,
passed through the city this morning
said that he had not learned yet whethe
there was any foundation for the fapor
that compromise had been arrange'
between the Brotherhood and Knight
of Labor.
KNOW NOTHING OF IT.
NEW YORK. March 2.-No advice
have been received uFSto late hour thi
morning at the Office of Austin Gorbir
i. president of the Reading read wit
reference to the latest reported order {
Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood {
Engineers and Chief Sargent of the Fir
men to members of the Brotherhoo
: who had taken the places of the la'
, strikers ON the Reading system. NJ
Corbin is ON his farm in Ciarenont, Ne
: Hampshire, and will not return till Mo-
: aay or Tuesday. unless telegraphed fo
1t was not thought that the move refe
red to above was matter OF serious i
It terest to Reading.
10 NOT so MANY AS REPORTED.
q PHILADELPHIA, March 2. 2.-Superinten
/. ent Sweigard, OF the Reading road, I
&. day said the reports from the We
o. telling about hundreds Of discharg
q Reading Railroad engineers taking Z
s. places Of the strikers on the Chicag
s. Barlington aad quincy Railroad wei
III declared greatly exaggerate1, !