The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-08-12
No Communication for the Time
Being Between New York and
New England.
All the Vanderbilt Lines Involved
The Action Taken Because
of Knights If Labor Dis
charges - The tffi-
cials Will Fight.

New York, August 9.-The rumb-
lings of an expected storm among 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 clear sky shortly
after z o'clock last night. All the
length of the Central was tied up.
Trains were lett by the crews where
they stood when the order came. Two
passenger trains were left at Eighty.
sixth street in the tunnel, one Q ,iIg
in each direction The latest report
10 that the West Shore railroad is tied
up throughout its length. as well as
the New York and New Haven rail.
road. Great throngs of people are
crowded into the Grand Central depot
trying TO have tickets changed and
asking all manner of questions. No
one seemed to know how it was OF
who ordered the strike. Even j. j.
Holland, the labor leader, denied that
he knew who ordered it, or even that
it was ordered.
| THE COMPANY WILL FIGHT.
Vice PRECEDENT Webb, of the New
Yerk Central, OH being interviewed
6y a reporter, said that the strike ex-
tended only to West Albany. AL
men who went out from the employ
of the road, he said, would be prompt
y discharged in the morning. Those
men who remained true to the COM
psnv would he we'll taken care of and
receive pro e:tion as well as I'll the
men who came to work for the road.
The road would Ike on all goad men
who applied for Work in the morning,
as rar ~ they were needed to fill the
places of the deserte's, and they
would be guarantee against all
harm as we'll. With great emphasis the
Vice President announced he would
fight The strikers TO the b't'er end. He
said said th Intel me ! asT SET seld n ds~S o,i
whatever about. In effect the de-
ma DIS are for minimum days wages
/ OF ) %; station agents to receive an
incr ase of s6 month men In yards
at Troy and Green Island shall re-
ceive the s4me compensation 20 at
Schenectady end East Albany: all
firemen on six wheel connected en-
gines shall receive &c per mile: all
ngireers on Same, &c; four-wheel
engiDe-eDgineers, SIC per mile: fir
men, &c per mile; for all meh EVER
time double psy.
NO CARS RUNNING.
Mr.. Webb announced that the fast
mail had pulled out of the depot at
8 o'clock with four mail cars, but no
passengers were at ached to the train.
The vice president further an.
bounced that no attempt would be
made to run any trains tonight. |
Every ihiag would be left at a stand
still just where the men left off. There
are no means to get to Albany or
New En- gland tonight. But the
opening up of the great avenues of
trsde would be begun tomorrow.
Lit is announced that The Vice Presi-
dent will give out 81 official statement
Of the roads position in the pres, mt
controversy that the people Of 'he
country may judge who is right and
who is wrong.
The strike was ordered on account
9f the discharge of certain employees.
Under the orders every train was
abandoned, no matter where it might
De. The 1:10 train for Moutre4I was
waiting the signal at the Grand Cen
raj depot, when the engineer, fire. ,
nau ami brakeman left it and walked
ut of the dept. Eff ITS made to Sc !
'uTe men to fill their places were ,
Without avail. The men on the other ,
rains also left them. Travel was not
My blUcted on the Central road, but
so on The New Yo;k and and New
England md New York ard Harlem
Dads, which use the tracks of the
CENTRAL road as far "a Meir' Sc.
Their is great excit ment at the :
epot. where great crowds of people
re gathered who expected to take
rains out Of tie city. The hotels in
he NJ ighbOrhOOd are crowded with q
issppoinled travellers. !,
LATER. $,
New York, Aug. AT 4 O'Clock ii
his afternoon The New York Central t,
as almost completely iied up from et
his city to Buffalo. The only trains n
, run were those carrying the mails. v
he strikers at that houf included all L
lie men, except the engineers and N