Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-02-29
4 FEW PASSENGER TRAINS MOVED.
Burlington business Not Quite mt n
stand Sfiii-uany Old Reading EN-.
ploycs Going to Take the Strikers
PIaccs-A strong Letter from WE.
PONl DERBY.

stand Sfiii-uauy Old Reading Em.
pIoyc. Going to Take the Strikers
PIaccs-A strong Letter from VIZ.
PoNderlY.
A few passenger trains, manned by green hands
and Old engineers who had risen to higher posi-
lions in the employ Of the road. were run on the
Burlington system yesterday, but were generally
from one TO ten hours late. There was no attempt
20 run freight trains. Crowds OF applicants for
the Tacant positions continued to throng the Bur-
nagtnn headquarters building in Chicago. but out
Of every hundred examined not more than dozen
were found TO be competent engineers, while the
supply of fremen WAS greater than the demand.
An agent, OF the Burlington road at Phila-
delphla yesterday engaged forty-seven engineers
and eighty irenen to go West take the places OF
the strikers. The men are from various points
along the Reading line, and are Tor the most part
those who went on strike In December. In the
corridors OF the Continental HOTEL in Philadelphia,
last night there were between one hundred and
one hundred and seventy-five men waiting for in
stTucJiOns from the companys agents Thirty of
these came from POttsville, and they report seven
ty-nve others waiting at that point for orders
large number OF men engaged by the Burlington
agent left Philadelphia for the West last night.
Among them were Bernard J. Sharkey, Jas. Glea-
son, and Frank McGil, members OF the central
committee OF the Reading Railroad strikers, each
OF wnom declared that he was acting individually,
and had made application TO the Burlington COM
pany : agents Tor position and had been accept
cd. Mr.. Shdrkey said that fully two hundred men
OF this city and an equal number from points along
The line had expressed a desire to go 10 Chicago.
The man who received the applicants for posi-
tions on the Burngtonin philadelohia was known
as T.. ID. Ward, but q matter OF fact he IS none
other than Capt Dougherty, the chief OF the Pink
erton forces al Philadelphia, and is the man who
had charge OF the PinkGrJOn police arrangements
az Port Richmond during the strike at that point.
II was amusing, says Philadelphia dispatch, TO
see such men as Sharkey Gleason and Mctiil.
leaders OF the Port Richmond strikers, In close
conference with Mr. Ward at the station. Capt.
DOugherty acted more as an executive chief OF the
Richmond.
under the charge OF capt. Eckstein. and this en-
plains why the men were In such blissful lgnOr-
ance OF his identity.
NO PROPOSITION LOOKING TO ARBITRATION.
In Chicago yesterday afternoon Chief Arthur de-
MED that any proposition OF compromise or arbi-
tration had reached him. lie said he mad not seen
President Perkins or Manager Stone, OF the Bur-
hngton road, or any citizen who desired TO secure
a settlement by arbitration. lie admitted that he
had been IN consultation with the managerSOf GER
tain parallel lines. the Wisconsin Central, Alton,
ance he said. that they VIII maintain a strict
neutrality between the Burlington road and the
Two organizations. the fiTemen and engineers"
PowDERLY's ADvICEs-THE KNIGHTS NOT TO INTER-
FERE.
Mr. Powderly has issued letter to the Knights
OF Labor strongly denOuncing men who take the
places OF others who are on strike. Continuing,
he says: at Is true that members OF the Brother
hood have on repeated occasions taken the places
OF members OT the kuightS OF Labor. IL Is true
that away back IN the early days Of the seventies
the Brotherhood men did the same thing with the
IllchinistS and biacksmlthS at the command OF
Z heir chief. IL Is true that the Brotherhood men
stabbed Knights OF Labor IN the back on the
southwest Sy stem, not only BY taking their places,
but by urging them to strike with proffer OF as
Ststance II they would do 80. 1t Is true that
knights were used "a catpawS Dy brotherhood
men In that struggle, and IL Is true that many en-
xlneers were burned In rdking out the chestnutS
Tor others. It Is true that brotherhood men did
take the places OF the Reading menin the strike on
the road. The merits OF the various cases herein
Ina htpO TODD nrinfinlp
OF honor which is involved in all OF them"
BITTER DESuNcIATIoS THE BRoTHERHooD's
COURSE III THE PAST.
at Is TO the eternal shame of the Brotherhood
men that they stopped TO such acts of meanness
and treachery, TO such unmanly conduct. The
man who takes the place OF another when that
other is engaged in a struggle with corporation
Is scab, whether he be i member OF the Knights
OF Labor or a member OF the Brotherhood or Loco
motive Engineers. When Charles Wilson ordered
members Of the Brotherhood TO take the places OF
members OF The Machinsts and Blacksmiths'
Union, IN 1872 and 1873, he did an unmaniy, cow
arlly act. When r. VI. Arthur allowed the mem
bers of the brotherhood, over which he exercised
such discipline. 10 camper with the rights OF the
striking employees OF the Missouri Pacific and the
Wabash sy >tem two years ago. he, too, violated
that principle OF honor which should restrain a
nan when about to do "A wrong. IL mattered not
that the irlGeS question not ordered by the
Chief officers Of the Knights Of Labor. Ii the men
who were interested Ielt that they were right, and
took up the fight as employees, regardless OF what
they had the rlgat 10 do so, and
under the laws or the land the members OF the
Brotherhood were not obliged TO make craven5 o
many OF them did, both on the
system and in the Reading strike. The
taking of the mems places was mean and das-
tardly.' III these actions were taken With the
5 nction OF the chief OF the Brotherhood he, too,
is mean and daStardly; but two wrongs never
make night and what Is mean and dastardly In
a member OF the Brotherhood OF Engineers cannot
become grand ana noble in a member OF the order
OF the Knights OF Labor.
"So Knight of LABOR should belittle his man.
hood by STOPPING 10 such dirty work. II 1t Is the
habit OF Brotherhood men TO do sucn work "a tax
ing strikers places 10 Heavens name let them
have a monopoly OF IL. Knights OF Labor, IL you
take advice, you viii stand back and allow this
struggle 20 go on Let the Brotherhood demon
strate its power 20 stand alone without any IN
tangling alliances with those Of other trades Let
the past be forgotten In this strike. No matter
how bitter you may feel toward these men, re
member that they nave not stepped out Of the
rlt Of selsnness yet, and II T. best TO teach them
what manhood means by Keeping hands off the
Chicago, Burlington and IIncy strike"
The letter concludes as follows: "knightS OF
Labor from Maine to California stand Dack, Keep
your hands of, let the law OF retaliation be dis
resa ried, and let the men OF the chicago Buriing-
ton aud quincy Railroad win the strike II they
can