San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-03-17
THE STRIKE SITUATION.

THE STRIKE SITUATION.
The situation, strikingly considered,
is decidedly bilious. The great mogul
OF the Brotherhood of locomotive en-.
gineers and firemen seems as much In
the. dark as anyone. The later dis
patches have added nothing to the news
given in yesterday evenings LIGHT, that
the entire system Of the Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe is tied up and the
only reason officially assigned is that
the men are tired and do not feel like
taking out their engines. Arthur has
sent for the grievance committee OF the
Santa Fe road to come to Chicago and
is reported as denouncing the strike up
on that road as a breach of good faith
on the part of the men. What will be
the end no one can conjecture. Tele-
grams received from Kansas City and
Topeka, in Kansas and Missouri; from
Denver, In Colorado; from Flagstaff. In
Arizona; from Los Angeles, PASADENA
Cotton and San Francisco, California,
all report the road tied mp and Dothing
moving. The reason given by the
engineers and firemen OF the
Santa Fe system in private conversation
Is that the road has been handling Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy freight
every day contrary to agreement. A
telegram from Topeka purports to give
the reasons OF the engineers on the A. L.
& S. f. for leaving their engines, but It
is not official and has only the authority
of private statement. 1t does not even
have upon 1t the stamp OF truthfulness,
as it is not likely Arthur would have
been ignorant of the situation had facts
been as represented in this statement,
which runs as follows:
1.-The question of the right to stop was
fully considered In last nights meeting,
and for the present 1t was unanimously
agreed that as far as we are concerned,
the Santa Fe management having agreed
that they would not handle any 40"
freight, the engineers and firemen,
knowing full we'll that the Santa Fe has
violated this agreement every day Tor
the past week, there is nothing left for
us to do but to quit hauling any cars un-
til this trouble is settled.
"This is a question OF life and death
with the Brotherhoods of Locomotive
Engineers and Firemen, and they had
been fully advised that the management
of different connecting lines with the
60" are working in an underhand man
ner to defeat them, and they think, in
Justice to themselves now and the trav-
cling public hereafter, that 1t Is better
that this matter be brought to settle
ment at once, and have used this their
only resort to bring about an equitable
settlement.
'They also desire to state to the peo-
pie of Topeka that the management OF
the Santa Fe had been fully warned, and
knew what was going to happen more
than a week ago, instead of thirty min
utes, as was stated in last evenings pa
pers."
As yet there has been no trouble on
the lines Of the Missouri Pacific and cars
are running as usual. Trouble is threat
ening, however, II rumors are to be re-
lied upon, and no human precisence can
forsee how soon every western railway
line will become involved. If. as the
Santa Fe men declare, "all lines con-
Meeting with the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy are working in an under
handed manner to defeat the strikes,
then look out for trouble on every road.
The Brotherhood will leave every engine
In America in its stall before they will
give up this hight against the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy. 1t is war to
the knife, the knife to the hilt, and the
poor public has nothing to do but hold
the empty scabbard.