Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-07
PRESENTING A SOLID FRONT.
Result of the Grievance Committees
Meeting in Chicago.
DETERMINED TO FIGHT IT OUT
Money and Messages of Encourage
ment tReceived-The Union Pacific
Refuses to Handle Burlington
Freight-Another Wreck.
No SIGNS of Yielding.

NO signs Oh leIUluRs
CHICAGO, March 6.-[Special Telegram to
the BEE. The great meeting of the griev-
ance committees Of the western and north
western roads is over and nobody knows ex-
actly why it was called or what it accom-
plished
While yesterday the air was filed with ru-
mors OF general strikes on the roads of the
northwest, to-day there is not word about
any such policy, and the wheels of all the
roads whose employees were represented at
yesterdays conference are revolving just as
smoothly and uninterruptedly as if no such
conference ever took place. The whole thing
has resulted in promise of the financial and
moral support of the strikers by the brother
hood men of the other lines represented and
n a promise not to handle any engines which
may attempt to haul Burlington freight or
passenger cars over any connecting lines
Yesterdays meeting was simply love
feast To-day the strike headquarters were
like a banquet hall deserted.
"There is no change in the SITUATION" said
Chief Arthur. "We propose to fight the bat
tie through to the end, and we are sure of
victory"
"When do you intend to return homel"
~ don't know. will stay here until the
boys need me no longer, or until the company
has granted their demands
A large number of kilograms were received
from different points all over the country
pledging the support of brotherhood engi-
neers and firemen. One from $50 engineers
| and firemen at Columbus, O., promised
| financial aid and urged the strikers mot to
surrender until the last gun was dismantled."
Reports are received daily at the strikers
| headquarters Of the condition of affairs on
each line of the Burlington system. The
strikers claim that the company has not sue
ceeded in getting through to Council Bluffs,
Kansas City or any of the great terminal
| points of the system, a single passenger
| train. Train No. 5, leaving Chicago at 1901
| p. M, has been sent out every day, but they
| claim it has never goue through to Council
| Bluffs and points in Nebraska. No. g. at
| 10;0 p. m. for Omaha and Denver, has
never gone through according to the
epSs headqSarters. sS' After 70 leaving win Chicago Chicago
| they are somewhere lost in the shuttle and
some of those trains, il is claimed, have never
passed Aurora on their western journey. The
| freight traffic, the men claim, has amounted
to nothing and many of the freight trains re-
| ported to be running have been composed of
an engine and way car. The engineers claim
have been badly injured by the handling of
the new men. In the round house at Brook
field are six engines unable to rum either on
account Of burnt boilers or. other injuries
Il
the shop before they are used again.
| At Creston, Ia, it is claimed there are seven
damaged engines waiting repairs. This
morning three engines from the Chicago &
Iowa line were brought into the round house
at Aurora with their feed pipes frozen and
| bursted.
Many reports came in from different points
as to the operations of the new engineers.
wiper who was put in the charge Of an en-
gine on the Iowa division took out q passen-
ger train. 1t is said that after getting under
way be found that he did not know how to
shut off the injector and the result was that
| the boiler of the injector filled with
water andseeadensed the steam The train
| stopped and the new engineer and his fire.
man became panic-stricken and fled from the
engine. Among. the kilograms of sympathy
| received to-day was one from Division Is of
the brotherhood of engineers at Buffalo 1t
read "God speed you. Stand firm. We
have forwarded draft for l,CO0.n There
were kilograms from Sacramento, Cal, and
| other points, promising financial aid when
ever it was needed.
General Freight Agent Lot Brown said:
'Ill give you something to put down as a
solid fact. An even go per cent of our full
complement of engineers and tiremen are at
work to-day. Look out of the window and
see the teams at the freight house door.
Don't look much as though the "Q'' was GRIP.
pied, does it! There are not so very many of
them compared with what used to be there
before the strike, but the public doesn't re-
ally know we can handle the goods yet. We
are receiving freight now for all
points east of the Missouri river.
Yesterday we sent out six full trains with 1856
cars in all from this house and the transfer.
We expect to get out $50 cars tonight. We
have one full force of handlers for out freight
at work and all our clerks. We don't take
freight to be transferred to the Atchson,
Topeka & Santa Fe, because we don't want
to get them into trouble. We don't know
whether they will agree to handle it for us
or not. Taking fair view of the matter, it
looks to me as though we had won the bat
tle"
'The questions of other roads handling our
freight will not come up for a day or two,"
said General Passenger Agent Morton.
ably to us think. There is no reason why
any road should adopt an adverse policy.
All of them handle our freight, more or less,
and our interests are to that extent Identical" )"
Talk With Chief Arthur.
CuIcAGO March 6.-Chief Engineer ri hur