Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-08-30
EXPENSIVE HELP.
A Ten Thousand Dollar Official
Switching Oars.
Tho Engineers and FIremen Fail TO Strike
Some Freight Moving and Pack
Ing Houses Runnlng-Pollce
on Hand.

men aro SJlll out ana IrelgnC Is last nc
cumulating in their yards At Brighton
there are 500 loaded cars bound for the
city. There is no sign OF any conces.
sion on the part Of the railroad com.
pany. At q joint meeting of Alton
brakemen, engineers and fremen yes
terday afternoon the action OF the
switchmen in striking was condemned.
General Manager Chappell, OF the
Chicago & Alton, is determined to fight
the switchmen's strike out and to this
end went personally into tho switch
yards yesterday morning and proposed
to earn his $4,000 a year salary by
turning switches and coupling cars
The firemen and engineers decided not
to go out in support of the switchmen
as 1t had been intimated they might do.
The firemen were anxious to do so but
wiser counsel prevailed, even the strik-
ing switchmen opposing such a move.
Later in the day number of non-union
switchmen were secured and set to
work under police protection.
The general managers OF all roads en-
tering Chicago were in continuous ses-
sion nearly all day discussing the strike
Of the Stock Yards Switching Associa-
ton in all its phases. The most positive
action taken during the day was the
adoption Of two resolutions touching o
kindred subject The first declared
that under no circumstances would the
demands Of the striking switchmen for
increased pay be granted and the sec
ond accomplished the action of Mon
day dissolving the Switching Associa-
ton.
AS the roads are to do their own
switching considerable time was con-
sumed in the discussion and adoption
Of certain needful regulations to con-
troll the interchange of freight traffic
To avoid confusion and complication in
the yards on the questions of prece-
dence 1t was resolved that the executive
board Of the general managers should
have full and complete control OF the
switching and settle all disputes be-
tween the roads as to precedence or
right Of way over the switches.
Before adjourning the general man
ayers adopted resolution directing
that all employees OF the old association,
engineers and fremen as we'll as switch
men, be paid off, but that the various
roads be recommended to re-employ as
many OF the old employees as they might
desire. There is little doubt all the
engineers and fremen will be re-em.
ployed and probably mary of the switch.
men also If the latter care to return te
work.
At the stock yards, while business
was not at standstill, operations were
not being conducted with their former
facility. The Michigan Central took on
train Of thirty cars of dressed beef for
Swift which had been standing in the
yards since last Friday. The Baltimore
& Ohio Lake Shore. Fort Wayne and
the Illinois Central all have engines
there which are manned by officials, ex-
cept those of the Lake Shore, which
had their regular crews. All the pack
ing houses were killing yesterday.
The striking switchmen are marking
every Car that goes out of the yards
with private marks to indicate that it is
''scab'' freight and they claim to be-
lieve that it will not be handled by the
regular mon of the various roads. Thus
far, however, there has been no trouble
in the down town yards. The men arc
all working except those on the Chicago !
& Alton, whose strike has no relation |
to the stock yards affair
At one o'clock thirteen engines were |
at work in the yards handling about all !
the goods that the shippers cared to
move. The engines belonged to the
Fort Wayne. Northwestern. Milwaukee
& st. Paul, Baltimore & Ohio, Illinois
Central, Pan Handle, Michigan Central
and Lake Shore roads. In many in
stances the engines were manned by the
officials of the several roads.
Chairman Reed, of the strikers griev-
ance committee, said: 1.-THE companies
doing business in the stock yards have
made proposition to us to go back to
work under the old scale of wages and
for all over time work to receive night
wages"
InlS statement Is uenleu Oy Jne rail-
road officials, who claim that they have
made no such proposition, but that they
believe the switchmen would be quite
willing to receive one Of the character
An engine OF the Baltimore & Ohio
entered the yards yesterday afternoon
TO remove some loaded cars and while
making connections the Baltimore &
Ohio switchmen quit work and aban-
loned the yards A large force Of
police are on the grounds and the best
Of order and apparent good feeling pre-
rails.
wreck on the New York Central.
ROCHESTER,, N Y, Aug. 0s "A freight
wreck occurred two miles west of Fair