Western appeal., 1888-03-03

strike was not under his direction and was
lnau9 9urated in defiance of the rules of the
order 1t was not successful The policy
OF the order has always leen pacific Tne
order is the richest in this country and best
able to maintain long struggle
Perhaps the mosJ remarkable element of
the strike is it's peaceable character Tie
managers OF the brotherhood-for the fire.
men are also in the strike-were the cool
est men in town yes erday The
hremen tre nearly as strong as the
engineers and are virtually con, rolled by he
latter: It the road can get the men to run
its trains neither Nh. Arthur, nor Mr.. Sar
gent, grand master of the tiremen. will lift
hand No whispered councils or secret
caucuses were held at the Grand Pacific
last night No threats OF resistance were
made.
The differ noes betwee the engineers
and the road have been unuer discussion
for four weeks, and Mr.. Stone was familiar
with them. The engineers demand that
all be paid the same wages. The company
at present classifes it's men and
grades Their wages. First year men, those
just promoted from fremen, receive GER
tain wages, estimated on the miles
run, and second-year men higher price
per mile Full engineers wages are not
paid until the third year. The engineers
claim that the Burling on road pays less
than many third-csass roads. All the roads
cen erIng in Chicago, except the Burling-
ton, pay their engineers according to the
Brotherhood schedule
During all the weeks Of negotiation Mr..
one has not been idle. An agent of his
road went to Reading, Pa, and employed
all the men he could who had recently been
thrown out OF employment by the strike
on the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
Company OGher points were reached
by te. egraph offering work to idle enei-
neers Every man in the shops who could
manage an engine was ordered TO be ready
to go out with one. Applicants for jobs as
engineers got them in hurry. Early last
evening the officers of the road said they
had enough men to run three trains each
way. The company has been running
tWenty-six such trains daily
The chief depots or roun1-houses are To-
Gated at Aurora and Galesburg, ILL., /; Ottum-
we, Burlington and Creston Ia, and LIN
ccln, Om aha and McCook, Neb. These
cities are at the ends OF working divisions
OF the road. Into the round-houses the
abandoned engines will be run. At these
points, also, the new men will go 10
work. At each city q committee of
the Brotherhood will wait on the new men
and offer them better wages to do nothing
than to accept the company's terms The
policy of the strikers will be to appeal to
the applicants for work on the general
ground of mu ual interests and sympathy,
and failing in that, to attack the selfish side
or the new men by offering them higher
wages than the company will give.
The Knights of Labor threaten to aid the
road to defeat the engineers. The knights
say the Brotherhood filled their places on
the Reading and the Missouri roads when
the Knights were fighting those corpora
tlons. The leaders of the Knights
of labor yesterday openly expressed
their determination to get even.
Chief Arthur said the Brotherhood
has never done any thing to warrant any
ill-feeling between the two organ cations.
The strike is not likely to involve any 9th or
roa Is, in the opinion of Mr. Arthur and Mr.
Sargent.