Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-08-15
The Trouble Between the Central
and Its Employees Likely to Be
a P%rOtracted Struggle.
Vanderbilt Stands Ready to Spend a
Million Rather Than
Yield an Inch.
The Managers of the Lines Believe
They Will Be Able to Fill
the Strikers Places.
The Strike Spreading.

The Strike Spreading.
New YORK, Aug. 9.-On the Harlem
division of the New York Central rail-
road all north bound trains were late.
White Plains trains ran irregularly. The
Tuccanoe locals were the only trains on
the Harlem division which did not run,
but passengers we're carried on the
White Plains trains. Train No. IS from
Albany, due here at 6 o'clock this even
ing, did not leave Albany till 5:25, nearly
three hours late. Train No. 4 left Albany
at 5:35, an hour and a half late.
Train No. 6 from Albany was an hour
and fifteen minutes late. A train out on
the New York Central railroad, due at 4
o'clock, came into Weehawken on the
West Shore road about $50. This was
the only Central train that came over the
West Shore road to-day and upon the
news of it's arrival the strikers declared
the West Shore, too, would be tied up.
j. j. Holland spent most of the day in
the Grand Union hotel, in conference
with representative strikers. He told
the reporters that he could not say any
thing about the probabilities for Mon
day, beyond that the men would fight
hard. He could not tell, he said, wheth-
or the brotherhood of locomotive engi-
neers would call out their members or
-ok Tb1ro -oro ,,,onxy 1toko~,o,>A, ,,o1o
to-day regarding the number Of men on
we're three or four thousand out. At 6
switchmen of the West Shore depot at
bulletin board at the stationmaster's Of
cabalistic signs, which the men studied
to. work. At TAO o'clock a locomotive
whistle rang out shrilly in the yard and
fifty of the ffty-four switchmen
LEFT THEIR POSTS,
put on their coats and walked to their
homes. This action left the yards almost
deserted. Preparations to meet the
emergencies we're Immediately made by
Chief Dispatcher Williams and men were
sent out to get the track in readiness for
dispatching the $50 Buffalo express.
night and the delay would seriously
senger car brakemen had abandoned
o'clock. Freight Conductor Kane, who
cntpI cc c-o1YHer,nr fDr thu cfr1y1r,o
switchman, told Yardmaster Degroot
but that they had been ordered out by
the X. of L., and obeyed. Chief Dis
patcher Williams told the men that they
did not, they should consider themselves
out of the service of the road. This
threat had no effect on the men.
VANDERBILT VII FIGHT.
ALBANY, Aug. 9.-From observations
at almost the controlling station of the
Central r%ailroad'lines, it is evident that
the strike of the employees will be one of
the most stubborn and formidable in the
history of the country. It is here that
the trouble is expected, for here are
massed the best of the roads detectives
and numerous Pinkerton specials. The
presence of the latter serves to aggre-
vate the cause. The X. of L. are bitter
foes of the Pinkerton secret service.
Railroad authorities here are inclined
to be reticent, hut no more than the men
themselves, William S. Bissell, general
superintendent of the road for this Sec
ton, admitted to a reporter this morning
that the strike had assumed a most seri-
GUS aspect. "No trains of any description
are running. The Buffalo yard went out
this morning." said Mr.. Bissell. "We
have sent out the roads ultimatum in
the matter of requiring men to go to
work or consider themselves discharged.
We believe we shall be able to fill their
places. I do not know when we will be
able to send out a train. You under
stand that our position in the matter is
simply that we have a right to discharge
and hire as we please. We discharged
certain men because they were labor
agitators. We shall not yield an inch"
Bissell admitted that Vanderbilt, through
vice-President Webb, had issued the
order to fight the strikers even if they
had to spend $1,000,000. Bissell adj
mitted that he thought the strike would
be one of the largest and most extended
ever seen in this country.