Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-04-02
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
THE STRIKE SPREADING.
Chicago Will Be Tied Up
Wednesday.
BELT LINE MEN GOING OUT.
Every Road Set Against
20" Business.
MANY LIVES LOST AT SEA.
A Lady Teachers Tongue
Cut Out.
nEMoRAL1zED RAILROADS.

DEMoRALIXED RAILROADS.
| The Belt Line EN- pIoyes r efuse to Ham
| die ssQ,s Cars and the System VIII be
| Tied Up-A General Revolt Against
co., Business and Strikes and Ru-
mors of Strikes ON Every Side-A
| Grave and Critical Stateoof Affairs.
| CHICAGO, April 1.-THE prospect of an i'm
mediate tie up of the Belt line added grayer
aspect to the railroad situation this evening
| than at any time since the Brotherhood of
Engineers and Firemen of the Chicago, Bur
lingten and Quincy struck. Every railroad
entering Chicrgo depends almost entirely up
| on the Belt line as the means by which an
| interchange of freight is to be conducted with
any other roads. Practically every railroad
track stretching from Chicago is intersecsed
| By the Belt and there has been general feel
l ing from the start the issue of the struggle
| might be swayed one way or the other by the
attitude of the Belt officials and these in their
| employ. The latter have all been among the
staunchest allies of the Brotherhood, while
i the management OF the Belt company have
| apparently sought as far as possible to
maintain position of so-called neutrality.
/ An entirely new phase was put on affairs
| when sometime yesterday General Porter,
| president of the Chicago and Eastern Hill
i nois, sent strongly worded letter to John
| G. Carson, president of the Belt line. Tho
Eastern Illinois company holds a controlling
/ interest in the Belt and General Porter's let
| ter demanded formally and explicitly that
/ the Belt line "transfer cars for every rail-
road and individual in exactly the same
manner and that any and all employees that
| do not choose to do their whole duty and the
Il IL ~.l
| company or individual as another shall i'm
nediately be dismissed, and no employe
shall in any way be allowed to handle any
particular car that will not handle any other
car in the same way" President Carson re-
| piled asserting to General Porter's
letter FRIDAY meeting of the
employees of the Belt line was held,
| at which the subject was earnestly
debated. 1t was currently reported this even
| ing that the Belt men decided to stand by
their guns and see whether the company
would discharge them en- masee. No provo
cation for an extension of the strike was
given to-day by the 60" There was no at
tempt to handle it's cara even in its own
yards. The managers of the Milwaukee and
st. Paul pursued an exactly opposite course.
They made the most strenuous efforts to keep
things moving and as result it is probable
that the strike on the st. Paul will eliminate
tomorrow in a renewal of the strike on the
Pan Handle. A train was got in readiness
so that tomorrow an attempt can be made
to transfer st. Paul freight to the Pan Handle,
and as the employees of the latter were pledg-
ed to support the St. Paul strikers there is
little doubt that they will refuse to handle
the freight and e strike ensue
Eight switch engineers we're at work in the
st. Paul yards to-day and cleared a blockade
at Union street and another at Western
avenue. Four freight trains were started to
Milwaukee and the suburban passenger service
was cot into much better shape than on SAT-
urday stormy meeting of the st. Paul
strikers was in progress during the afternoon.
The majority of the engineers and fremen
are said to have favored returning to work
on the terms offered by General Manager
Miller, while the switchmen and brakemen
insisted on standing out. Without reaching
any conclusion an adjournment was taken
until tomorrow morning.
Judging from appearances and from the
talk INDUCED in by the railroad men Wednes-
day will see the commencement of
general strike. It is admitted by rail
road men that the only preventive of
q strike tomorrow is the nearness of cleo
ton, but Wednesday, when the political
battle is over, a railroad war will bloom into
vigor. In the Burlington division of the
yards to day all was quiet. The town of
Lake police as usual were on the ground, but
they were not needed. In the big Fort
Wayne yards, extending along Stewart sve-
nue. from cOrCy seventh TO phty-
ninth street, all was quiet. Switch
men, engineers and fremen were painfully
conspicuous by their absence. In the big
roundhouse at Fifty-ffth street were twenty
engines freless and several town of Lake po-
licemen hung about, but there was absolutely
nothing for them to do. In the Fort Wayne
company's employ in Lake are five hundred
men and of that number perhaps one hundred
and twenty five were employed as engineers,
iremen and switehmen. The Fort Wayne
company had been expecting trouble ana ac
cordingly took time by the forelock. Every
thing was cleared up by Saturday. The yards
are now empty save of their own cars and the
company is IN q condition to stand the strike
and its consequences better than at any other
time.
The FIT. Wayne men are fully determined
not to handle any 80" cars and may refuse
to have anything to do with st. Paul trans
fers. Saturday night Foreman Bshm of the
shops asked every engineer to go to Sixteenth
street after train, but all refused. Saturday
when the engineers, fremen and switchmen
quit work the hands in the shops were told
they might 60 home.
The fremen, engineers and switchmeA en-
ployed by the Lake Shore are dissatisfied and
may not wait until election day to go out.
The svitchmen it will be remembered were
set to work during the big strike. It is now
known that the Switchmen's union has Of
fered to take them into the union. For
this generous offer on the part of
the union the Lake Shore switehmen
have about decided not to handle
any more 80" cars. In the stock yards the
switchmen employed by the Stock Yards
company are finding u new deal to play
against. Usually the Wabash takes Milwau-
kee and st. Paul cars from Hammond, Ind,
and at the stock yards turns them over to the
| in and they objected to the Michigan Central
handling them. Committees were appointed by
the switchmen to wait on the stock yards
officials The committees failed to do any
thing and the men refused to handle the st.
Paul cars The dissatisfaction among the
stock yards men was communicated to the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois men and with
the Lake Shore they are simply waiting for
their turn to step out. Wednesday has been
settled upon as the day, and unless there is
change the men employed on the Lake
Shore, Chicago and Eastern Illinois and 9th
| er roads will go out.
Tho st. zoe Brakemen Strike.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, April All the freight
brakemen on the Kansas City, st. Joe and
Council Bluffs struck to-day at II o'clock.
| Thew assign as reason danger to their lives
| in working with seab engineers.
SOP, Cars Refused at Kansas City.
KANSAS CITY, April 1.-The switch engin-
GERS and firemen of all the roads entering the
city with the exception of the Burlington
held meetings Saturday night at which they
resolved that after 10 o'clock noon of Mon
day, April 2, they would refuse to handle
all so" oars of freight except it be live stock
or perishab1e goods which has been started
previous to that hour. A committee of the
engineers and fremen of each road called on
the superintendents and notified them of the
order. The plan laid out by the meeting
| is for the engineers to refuse to handle Bur-
lington freight and yet to stay with the en-
| gines until they are discharged for disobey-
| ing orders If road engineers are put in the
yards to do switching or new ones are hired
| then the switchmen will refuse to switch