The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-09
Completely Tied Up Last Night by .
Great Strike Of Em-
ployes.
Ordered Because Of Grievances
About Wages and the Dis
charge Of Mem.
webb Thinks Il Il Not Much Of ! strike
The Men Have Another
Idea.

the expected storm smong the thousands of
employees Of the New York Central and
Vanderbilt lines, owing to the discharge Of
Knights OF Labor and brotherhood men,
broke like flash from q clear sky to-
night. All the length Of the Central was
tied up. Trains were left by
tho crew whore they stood when the order
came. Two passenger trains were left at
Eighty-sixth street in tunnel. The latest
report is that the Lake Shore road is tied
up throughout its length, as we'll a. the
New York & New Haven road. Great
throngs Of people crowded into the Grand
Central depot, trying to have their tickets
changed. No one seemed to know how it
was or who ordered the strike.
Even j. j. Holland, labor leader,
denied that he knew who ordered il, or even
that it was ordered. Representatives of the
railroad company called upon Acting Super
licc reserves on the east side above Forty
second street to Yonkers, and ON the west
side from st. Johns Park to Yonkers, were
placed ON duty guarding tracks and
property. The depot ct Forty second
street was under the protection of . full force
patrol. Inspector Byrnes' detentives guard
cd switches and signal stations along the
road to Yonkers. After tn se arrangements
had been made word reached police head
quarters that some of the strikers intended
to take possession Of the switch house at
avenue. Inspector Byrnes Immediately
detailed two detectives to watch that point.
The inspector himself decided to remain at
headquarters all night. Vice President
Webb, Of the New York Central. on being
interviewed BY q reporter, said the strike
men Who went out from the employ Of the
road tonight, Webb said. would be
promptly discharged in the morn
ile. The men who remained
amply protested, az we'll as the man who
all good men who applied for work in the
morning and far as they were needed to I'LL
the places Of the deserters. With great em-
phAsis the vioe-president announced that
hess would fight the strikers to the bitter
end. He said the new ret Of demands
Shsssysr I @ esass & s1n. III ii s s4ess sssss dsmsns
are fdF : smihimum days wgges of $l.50;
station agents to receive an increaseof e5 q
month; ;fmen in the yards at Troy and Green
Island shall receive the same compensation
az at Schenectady and East Albany; all fire.
receive ~ cents per mile; all engineers on
same cents; four-wheel engine engineers,
81 cents per mile, firemen cents per
mile; for all men, overtime. double pay.
Webb announced that the fast mail
had pulled out of the depot at o'clock with
four mail cars, but no passengers were at
tached to the train. The vice president fur
ther announced that no attempt would be
made to run any trains tonight. There are
no means to get to Albany OF Now England
tonight. but the opening up Of the great
avenues of trade would be begun to-mor-
row. Il,
skThe strike was ordered on account OF the
discharge Of certain employees. Under the
orders every train was abandoned, no mat
| ter where it might be. Travel was not only
blocked on the Central road, but also on
the New York and New England and New
York and Harlem roads, which use the
| tracks of the Central az far al Melrose.
There is great excitement at the depot,
where great crowds Of people gathered, who
expected to take trains out Of the city. The
hotels in the neighborhood are crowded
with disappointed travellers.