The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1890-02-10
BAD OUTLOOK.
Greate-t Railway strike Of the Age
ihrea'ensd The Aim 81 IT. Promoter.
j. Hsnefal IprIsiag Of UnsrSlaIgssI
WORK men.

Phts'Hb u nSE EshniEe1
CHcAGot Feb "a morning paper
Monday egntajped tho following. Dark
shadows Of an impending strike are
lowering like Nightmares over many IL
not all the railroad lines entering Chi
cago On authority from several reIi..-
bic s9urcss u seems more than probable
that withtn teu<tays n hsrcIiea1 At
tempt viii 5e made 10 tie urevery loco
motive and car in the city and paraIyze
the traffic on. many -thoEsands Of miles
, Of track
$50 alpr-heuslEe ha-e the officials Of
. one, OF the eastern trunk liras hse1.r.e
thatit Is reliably reported ths,- a4e r.
-fusiHg ea=t-bCund trzf5ie from western
lines Starting with the gnorraliztsi
switehFnen the dissat-9 faction mas
spread until it is claimed the various
branches Of unqFganizei employes VII
unite in one of the most determined
strikes ever known in railroad annals.
The switshmen OF Chicago have de-
cided 70 demand an advance Of five
cents per hour in their present pay, aud
20 strike Il they do not get IL. This
important action vas taken SUNDAY az
q meeting of committees representing
the hetwenty-seyen railroad yards il this
city. The neg scale demands thirty and
thirty-fve cents. per hour respectively
Tor da. helpers and toremen and thirty
ave aHaf9glg cents Per hour respective
~ III n3Pers and forcmen working AZ
night
The demand viii be made upon the
several roar. car,erirS- tse=S - =J1z -
Petitions car b. circulated Hulong the
men ~ the ssre,,tivs yards and a ma
jprlty - tne -natn-,-s secured ,...... !. >.
The pfcll -sr 's-s MA. - The
IS that q eE= ..es-,4 "a t.lt.
aGItrn6ve and that it j. a sort Of gene
ral movement on the part % the men
irrespective ~ the old organizations
! UHe Of the. men who are prominent IN
the new move said: This Is no; a new
thing 'by any means, but We have been
very careful that cur aims and obi -
should not become generally known
Il has heen seriously considered ever
Stree the failure Of the. Buffalo strike
After that affair the men got to talk
ing among theIuse yts that their organ
iza,i0us were failures owing to the
way they were conducted Strike after
strike proved 10 be a failure through
Misunderstanding and mistakes Of the
head men Of cur organization. and il
became general talk among the men.
that the only way = which railroad
men could eFsr improve their condition
would Is, by popular uprising. We
concluded N make an effort on our own
account without nthe guidance or assist
ance oi the unions At all | don't
mean 70 say that individual members Of
the unions VIII net support Us; on the
contrary, they viii help Us. but they
viii not 70 into the movement as
members OF the unions. nor viil they
70 au5 81 it when ordered 70 do 50 b.
the ofIip.ais Of the unions In other
words, II il becomes necessary for Us 70
strike, ii will not be done by the order
81 the union officials, nnr Will their
mandate lie efFectire in determining
such,a strike OF
..Thc rank and file Of the men are
SAii - HA-tA-o A---rN
been ruauagcI, and they propose 10 try
. hand at the.prob,ern IN ! more demo
cratic way IN the future We have had
8 little too much union in one direction
and not enough in the other. There IS
no lack OF officials drawing salaries.
while great majority OF the men en-
gagged IN the various lines are kept out
Of the unions because of the arbitrary
rulings and fines imposed ty. these we'll
paid Officials The men 70 i man agree
that the wages Of railroad men gener-
ally are too low. and they also express
a willingness % so into j popular move
ment TO secure the same and never give
up until they secure it
The greatest efforts have been made
to keep the whole novraent 4 secret
and in this. the men have 20 4
great exteut. been successfHL Only a
few vague hints leaked oUt- and these
gave rise 70 al sorts Of ramors, bus I'M
I'll Sundays meeting nothing really
definite was lznown Regarding the Oh
ject Of the move