Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-29
STRIKING SwITCHMEN.
Switchmen on the Lake Shore System
at Chicago Quit Their Posts.
The State Board OF Mediation Order an Inves.
tigation of the Central Strike to
Commence Tuesday.
FAKE SHORE sw1rcuMEN Ar CHICAGO

LAKE SHORE swITCHMEN AT CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Aug. 2S.-Twenty-
seven switohmen in the employ of the
Lake Shore went out on q strike last
night, completely tying up all business of
the road, as far as Chicago is concerned.
The trouble grows out of the stockyards
difficulty. Superintendent Amesden took
q crew of men down TO the stoekyards
yesterday afternoon. just before reach
ing there the men quit and left their en-
CINE standing on the track. Some time
afterward another crew was started, but
abandoned its engine a. Forty-Third
street. When the night shift came to go
TO work they learned that Superintend-
ent Amesden had discharged all the men
who had left their engines. They i'm
mediately called a meeting, and the men
in the yards at Twelfth street and EnGle-
wood walked out in q body, and the
strike was declared. There are alto
gether about eighty switchmen employed
on the Lake Shore road this morning,
half of which number, the superintend-
eut thinks, will hold their work night
end day. Switchmen are about equally
divided, and only the night men have
struck thus far. Day men have left
their engines to attend the meeting. The
result is not known. Out OF twenty-three
engines that should be working at this
time only three are at work. Passenger
trains are all running on time.
There is no change in matters on the
Chicago and Alton road this morning,
every thing being practically as it was
last evening.
RESULT OF THE MEETING.
The meeting was attended by about
sixty switchmen belonging TO both the
night and day force. Superintendent
Amesden explained to them the circum-
stances under which the night force
struck last night, and asked them
whether they intended TO stand by the
company or strikers. Thirty-f four of
the sixty men signed paper agreeing TO
stand by the company and go TO work
wherever the company sent them. The
remainder decided TO side with the
strikers. Two engineers were then sent
TO Packingtown to do work needed there
and the remainder are working in the
Lake Shore yard.
There is no particular change in the
situation at the stockyards, and engines
manned as they were yesterday are doing
whatever work Is needed.
A TASTE OF IDLENEss.
BALTIMORE, MD, Aug. 2S.-A large
number of employees in the Mount Clair
shops and Burlington and Ohio railroad
have been laid off till Monday next.
One reason assigned by the men for this
action by the company is that the COM
pa1y wants to give the men q taste of
idleness so as to operate against their
couutenancing any OF the railroad strikes
now pending the Chicago
strikes.
A LABOR ALLIANCE MOVE.
Boston, MASS. Aug. 2S.-An effort
TO form an alliance of labor and social
reformers resulted last night in large
gathering of trade unionists, knights
of Labor, Socialists Nationalist and
single tax men. The purpose of the pro-
posed alliance is to bring about n better
understanding that more practicable ana
effective work may be planned and car
ried TO successful termination. Com
mittee appointed to formulate policy
looking to the union of all organized |
labor reported resolutions asserting |
the necessity of Matchmaking rail-
roads. but it was referred TO |
the committee on organization. |
The meeting adopted resolutions de- |
nounciug the New York Central railroad |
for its position in present troubles and |
adjourned subject TO the call OF COM |
mittee.
LOOKING FOR GENERAL TIE-UP.
CHICAGO, ILL, Aug. 2S.-Represen- |
tatives of the Switchmen's mutual aid |
association are meeting this morning |
With the grievance committees of all |
roads running into Chicago. The meet
ing was called TO devise means, If posi-
bic 10 settle the difficulties which are |
now threatening railroad traffic of this
city. Before the meeting opened Grand
Organizer John Hall said to reporter:
1.-The situation is just this-if any road |
attempts to compel its switchmen to
handle freight from the stockyards IL
will very speedily have strike on its
hands. In this way the matter will be
brought to the attention of the associa-
ton, which will make the fight its own,
and general tie-up of all roads may be-
come reality
TO INVESTIGATE THE STRIKE.
ALBANY, N. Y, Aug. 2S.-Notice
was to-day served by the state board OF
mediation and arbitration upon Third
Vice President Webb of the New York
Central and Hudson River road and upon
Master Workman E. ]. Lee of District
Assembly 246, Knights of Labor, that an
investigation of the strike on the Central
and Hudson road will be commenced in
New York city next Tuesday.
RAILROAD TRAINMEN,