The Russellville Democrat., 1890-08-14
A SUDDEN STRIKE
Trains on the New York Central Road Abandoned in Moment Cause of the striixe-A Passenger Gorge.

Trains on the New York Central Road
 Abandoned in Moment Cause of the
 striise-A Passenger Gorge.
 NEW YoRK, Aug. 9. The storm among the thousands of employees of the New York Central and Vanderbilt lines, ow- ing to the discharge of Knights of La bor and Brotherhood men, broke out shortly after seven o'clock last night.
 All the length of the Central was tied up Trains were left by tho crews where they stood when the order came. Two passenger trains were left at Fs.et...JJ- ..JJ sixth street in the tunnel, one going in each direction. The latest re- port is that the West Shore railroad Is tied up throughout it's length, as well as the New York & New Haven rail- road. Great throngs of people are crowded into the Grand Central depot trying to have tickets changed and asking all man ner of questions No one seems to know how it was, or who ordered the strike. Even l. J. Holland, tho labor leader, denied that he knew who or dered it or even that it was ordered.
 Tho representatives of the railrond company called upon Acting Superin- tendent of Police Byrnes for protection.
 vice-President Webb, of the New York Central, on being interviewed by reporter, said that the strike extend ed only to West Albany. All men who went out from the employ of the road, he said, would be promptly discharged. Those men who remained true to the company would bo we'll taken care of and amply protected, as we'll as all men who came to work for the road. The road would take on all good men who applied for work in the morning, as far as they were needed to fill the places of the deserters, and they would be guaranteed against all harm as we'll With great emphasis, the vice-president announced that he would fight the strikers to the bitter end. He said that the new set of de- mands he had never seen and knew nothing whatever about. In effect these demands are for a minimum day wages of s1. 50; station agents to receive an increase of s month; men in yards at Troy and Green Island shall receive the same compensation as at Shenec- tady and East Albany; all firemen on six-wheel connected engines shall re. ceive 215 cents per mile; all engineers on same, cents; four-wheel engine en. gineers 31l cents per mile; fremen, ? cents per mile; for all men over time, double pay.
 Mir Webb announced that the fast mail had pulled out of the depot at 9:2O o'clock with four mails, but no passen. ger cars were attached to the train. The vice-president further announced that no attempt would be made to run any trains last night Every thing would be left at standstill just where the men left off. There were no means to get to Albany or New England las. night but the opening up of the great avenues of trade would be begun to-. day.
 It is announced that the vice. president will give out an official statement of the roads position in the present contro- versy that the people of the country may judge who is right and who is wrong.
 The strike was ordered on account of the discharge of certain employees. Un- der the orders every train was aban- doned, no matter where it might be. The ITO train for Montreal was waiting the signal at the Grand Central Depot when the engineer, fireman and brake man left it and walked out of the depot. Efforts made to secure men to fill their places were without avail. Men on other trains also left them. Travel was thus not only blocked on the Central road but also on the New York X New En- gland and New York X Harlem roads which use the tracks of the Central road as far as Melrose There is great excitement at the depot, where great crowds of people are gathered, who ex- pected to take trains out of the city. The hotels in the neighborhood are crowded with disappointed travellers.