The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-02
The Fight.

CHICAGO, March Late tonight it
was given out that Grand Master Sar-
gent had telegraphed to Henry Walton,
chairman of the executive board of
Locomotive Firemen, requesting him to
see all the members on the Reading
road that had taken places. that went
out December Gath, 1887, and request
them TO sever their connection with the
company. and saying they would be
paid until they could find employment.
elsewhere, and allow the mel
now out to return to work. 1t
was further said that they would
assist the Brotherhood to WIN the
struggle with the Burlington road. Mr..
Watson wired that he would at once
transmit necessary orders to Brother
hood lodges. Chief Engineer Arthur
then transmitted the following:
Edwqrd Kent, Chairman of the Erecn-
the Board Of Engineers, NeO York:
Go to Philadelphia at once aud use
your influence to get all Brotherhood
Engineers who took the places OF
the Reading strikers to leave the
service of that company, furnishing
them with the financial support OF
the Brotherhood. G. B. & @. are using
the strikers TO beat rs in the conflict.
We must checkmate them.
[Signed, 2. NJ. ARTHUR.
Eighty of the striking Rea ling en-
gineerS. who arrived here Wednesday
night to take places, returned late to-
night.
The local press bureau, at late hour
tonight furnishes the following: In
telligence of undoubted reliability was
secured at a late hour tonight,
to the effect that the chairmen OF
the engineers and irsmen grievance
committees upon all railroad lines in
tersecting, parallel to, or connecting
with the Z. B. & Q system. will meet in
this city tomorrow or next day. This
meeting is preparatory 10 a general
strike upon all these lines. This in
ciudes the Chicago, Minnesota & st.
Paul, Chicago d Alton, Northwestern,
Wisconsin Central, Rock Island 81 Mn
neseta and Northwestern.
a trump card that Inc strikers are
holding III reserve was described to-
night by the general manager OF q rail-
roai other than the Burlington ter mi
mating here. He saws: Granting that
compromise is arrived at between the
Chica 80, Burlington d Quincy and ii g
striking engineers, and that the
company succeeds in filing the
places of the strikers, there is
another phase that will present
itself which will not only embar-
rass the Burlington Company. but
will prove dangerous to other co.,
porations. The Burlington, with
all its locomotives manned, can
resume local business and successfully
conduct it, but there it will stick.
Through business it mot do, if the
Brotherhood Engineers should take a
stand against it. They could and
probably would refuse to haul trains in
which the Burlington cars were made
up, and such action would be etfectual
in blocking through business. If con-
Meeting lines should insist upon the
perfor nance of service, it would
precipitate strike in their own
roads, and there is not much
they would refuse to accept tho Burl-
bat one resource. 1t could transfer its
freight at terminal points to foreign
cars, bnt this would be an expensive
process, and would place it at fatal
disadvantage against other roads.
The Burlington road to-day moved
larger number # passenger trains than
on any previous day this week, and
also report the partial resumption of
freight traffic on most oil the divisions.
They succeeded in getting four switch
engines at work in this city, and clearer
out quite q number Of cars from the
lumber district.
An evening paper, to-day, asserted
that a conference had been held be
tween President Perkins, General Man.
ager Stone and I. e. DetwiIer, repre-
senting the engineers and hremen.
This was emphatically denied, this
morning, by both sides. sssxssa
1t appears that Secretary Cayhill
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. They
assured Csyhill tn they had pre-
viously no other knowJt dge than vague
newspaper reports that this thing had
occurred. Both express q willingness
to request their men to quit Reading
employment. In return, Cayhill
agreed 10 keep the $50 or 200 Read
places on the Burlington. The men, 1t
was agreed, would be held back twenty
fur hours. If the Brothe, hood men
quit the Reading, the Knights
would return home. After this
settlement was made, Mr.. Arthur
and his comrades seemed much
more cheerful. Chairman Hoge, of the
grievance committee, said complaints
had reached him that several roads
were violating the neutrality agree
ment. 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 as
sistance was stopped. general strikr
would be ordered within fourty- eight
hours.