Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-09-02

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CouespoaseBee Of the DEsEHEr NEWS
q At the present time the news.
: papers have something serious &c
talk absut. One does not have q
4 read heavy editorials on John l..
, Sulliyan's morality, OF on Mike Nc
, Donald's political power. IL l. true
the foreign dispatch agent surprise.
US sometimes. He tells u today
that while the Princes OF Wales
was travelling from London to Bal
moral, a hot box In her car caused
her to change coaches. When the
news reached London il was then
transmitted TO the four corners Of
the world, and possibly to the poles
also. Even some Of our journals
were grieved TO learn this terrible
news, and they favor lynching a
few English railroad sIPerintend-
ents 50 as 10 prevent n recurrence OF
this calamitous character. Our
railroads, though no. freighted
with princesses, are carrying
quite as important percentages
They are carrying Emperor
Pinkerton the First AMI his prime
minister Major-Generai Foley, and
If there DON'T lie hotboXes before
long there Is sure to lie something
wonse.
Strikes are the fashion just now.
Happily one strike has been settled
today in Chicago, and though not
a very extensive one yet large in-
terests were involved. This was
the strike % the engineers and fire
men Of the Railway Switching As
/ ISOLATION Al the Union Stock Yards.
There are thirty-f0ur engines
worked by this company. The
engineers were paid 36c an hour.
aud iiremen lblc an hour. They
made a demand Tor Sic ami 2lc r.
spectively. This demand was not
grantel ami the engineers and fire
men struck. The strike Of these
men caused a tie-up. anu switChmen.
yarimeu and others were laid OF. /
Directly about so men were it,
VOWED in this strike, but indirectly /
over 5000 men were laid idle hy the 1
strike.
The Railway Switching Ass1cia- /
ton is a company formed % handle /
the freight Of seventeen different /
railroads which do business with the /
stOckyards. IL was Organized in /
1857. \ compromise with the st.ik |
ers effected "A settlement. Engineers .
will now receive - cents an hour
and iircmen Is cents an hour. The
Chicago Tribune STORES the strikers
heavily because they lid not pe;i
ton and agitltc before striking. aud |
thus obtain their demands without
damaging business and people o. al
alarming extent. But the Tribune
fails 10 notice that agitation and
rem0nstrlGce and petitions are just
the things 10 secure for an empIlyr ]
his walking papers. 10 failed b. no
tice 10 was agitation Of this kind
which precipitaied the New York
Central s:Tike. On that road train
men petitionei for a tggelyc-hUur
day with overtime for murr than
twelve hJlr-' work. The petition
was al lirst granted, but after a {
time the demands in the Re
tition were ignored. The vmyloyes
knew what this meant, ani before
peiItiUniug a second time resolved e
10 prepare themselves hy Orciuiza-
ton. The men who took part in
the petitions and ia the agitation ,
were summarily dismissed. Mr.
POwderiy says IL wa. for being aC-
live knights Il I.abor. Mr.. Webb !
says 1t was for drunkenness, III .
;aIacity and insubOriinati0n. Any
how the strike was the result.
There i in existence now what
i called the Federation Of Railroad
There arr four branches Z
It present in the federation. the /.
the fireman, the trair- !
men and the conductors. They ar. +
III organiZ=ii 30 work in harmony !
Inder certain conditions. Zach Of =
sanization has an executive com !
pissed Of president. vice-presiient I
anu secretary. The executives Of Il
he four organizations form what l. >
allied the supreme Council Of Fed :.
rated Railroad Employs. This n
'ouncil i nov in session at Trrre :,
daute, Ind. IL l. this council !.
which determines whether 2 strike =,
n one branch will be supported by =
III, or be dislppr0yed.
The knights Of Lll,or association y
las no connection with this E-Isra- ],
ion. In fact they are hostile bodies, =
sui three men who belonged 10 the a
'Wiichmeu's Union were ordered Z,
o take the places OF the striking "
knights. This the swItchucn r. -,
used to dc. One Of the irou-cIai =, =
ules OF their order il not 10 take =
ny strikers place. no matter =,
'hether that striker belonged 10 an !,
rgauiZation or not. The SWITCH =
men were discharged and the other :,
Nltchmen struck, and will remain :,
ut until the discharged men arr :.
einstitei. The Switchm.u,- :
Mon sustsins the strikers and de- :.
hands the reinstatement q il. =
MEMBERS. The meeting OF the
upreme Council VIII decide :
neither the federation will re,5l,- u
lse the strike Of the sTitchmen a =
-sitimate; IL 50, the other branches :,
lust quit work. The federation Il.
zen must extend the strike 10 all -,
lie anderbilt lines. a system en- -
-acing some 10000 miles Of y.
llroad. The next thing then "a
III lie % cause other roads
refuse handling any clrs from -,
e Vanderbilt rBals. so that ifthe =.
ipreme Council decides on a Gen. -
al strike We are likely 10 have an ~
citing time In Chicago. This CITY -
light be said b lie the central uoiIt IA
the Vanderbilt system. The - -
ichigan Central, the Lake Shore. =.
e Nickel Plate, the Chicago 4. ~.
)ithTestern are all Vanderbilt -.
ads, and all focus in Chicago. But ~.
u thought at present that the -
IKE viii not become general. "a
IL VIII be seen from the CORES -
ndence between Webb aud Povy. ~,
rly, that the latter, as far as rhet- ~
ic goes, has the best Of il. Th,. at IA
lie Webb has taken Il rather i-e
ensive 10 labor In general. He ~
ems u think that a lal,Orer has no III
'htS whatever, no right 10 PETITION al
agitate, 10 demonstrate. no right ~.
that o; the CD, to obey and lie -
ughtered. Admit Mr.. Webb 10 -
In The right on this position and "a -
4 justify at once human slavery. =.
tact Mr.. Wehb's stand paves the ..''
y TO r--establishing slavery. W.
I = true labor sometimes makes y
lish demands. Take the strike 81
the Illinois Central here a shor; IA
le ago. II was foolish in the ev- in
me; and helped to give reason 10
7ueh men rs Webb. But II i II
generally known that the men WI
% caused this Illinois Central
Ike were all expelled from tbe
Grafton OF rlilrOai employees. Mr..
,b1 Ignores the New York STAT.