Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-13
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nuaIr1ess On the Great New York Central
Road P.ralyzad by !. strike--All Trains
Oat Of New York ktopped--Dsmands OF
tho Mon. IA
NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-The strike Of
the employees ON the New York Central
& Hudson River railroad was begun at
1880 o'clock Friday night. Not q train
has left tho depot at Forty.second
street since that hour. The Grand
Union Hotel IL crowded with people
who expected to leave the city
and had engaged passage for va.
rious points. All tho length Of
the Central was tied up. Trains
were left by the crews where
they stood when the order came. Two
passenger trains were left at Eighty
sixth street in the tunnel, ono going in
each direction. The West Shore railroad
Is tied up throughout its length, as we'll
as the New York g. New Haven rail.
road. Great throngs Of people crowded
into the Grand Central depot, trying to
have tickets changed and asking all
manner Of questions.
Vice. President Webb, of the New
York Central, on being interviewed by
a reporter, said that the strike extended
only to West Albany. All men who
went out from the employ of tho road,
/; Mr.. Webb said, wonld be promptly dis
charged. Those men who remained true
to the company would be we'll taken care
OF and amply protected, as we'll as men
who came to work for the road. The
road would take on all good men who
applied for work, as far as they were
needed to fill tho places OF the desert
ers, and they would be guaranteed
against all harm. 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-
nothing whatever about
In effect these demands are for a
minimum days wages Of S1.50; station
agents to receive an increase of IS a
month; men In yards at Troy and Green
island to receive the same compensa-
ton as at Schenectady and East Al
bany; all tiremen on six-wheel con-
nected engines to receive "a cents a
mile; all engineers on same, cents; r.
wheel-engineers, 81 cents mile; fire.
men, 2 cents mile; for all men, over
me. double pay.
J. j. Holland of the executive board
of the Knights of Labor was seen few
moments later at the Grand Union
Hotel. He expressed himself as firmly
rs did Mr.. Webb. only his way of put
ting it was that the trains would
not move for several mornings. MIR.
Holland stated that he had not ordered
the strike. but thought that the head
of the local division Knights Of Labor
might have done it.
Several of the strikers were inter-
viewed on the matter, but declined to
talk more than to say that it would
prove to be the biggest strike before
it was over that the people in the
East had seen for some time.
In MIR. Wcbb's office telegraph in
strument was clicking along at fast
rate. A reporter who could read the
instrument heard Utica call up New
York and ask for men to be sent there
J
Another message from Palmyra said
that the freight yards at that point
were blocked and all freight at stand
still. These messages would seem to
contradict the statement of Mr.. Webb
that there was no trouble west of AL
buny.
Assistant Superintendent of Mails
Half said it would be impossible to say
what arrangement would be made by the
railway mail service to handle the mails
affected by the tie-up. In all probable
ity the mails would be transferred to
the Pennsylvania system or sent south.
The delay would undoubtedly be serious
in some cases, but in others it would
not amount to more than an hour or so.
The strike was ordered on account of
the discharge of certain employees.
Under the orders, every train was aban-
doned, no matter where it might
be. The 7:lO train for Montreal
was waiting the signal at the
Grand Central depot when the en-
gineer, fireman and brakeman left
it and walked out of the depot.
Efforts made to secure men to fill their
places were without avail. The men on
other trains also left them. Travel was
thus not only blocked on the Central
road, but also on the New York & New
England and New York & Harlem roads,
which use the tracks Of the Central road
as far as Melrose.
ALBANY, N. Y, Aug. 9-The New
York Central road is tied up from Buf-
falo to New York. All switchmen have
deserted their posts Trains are al
lowed to proceed to the terminal
divisions and then switch service is re-
fused. The strike began at o'clock.
The 6 o'clock train out Of New York ar
rived here on time. but now lies in
the yard. The strike in this Sec
ton extends to the switchmen,
yardmen and in some instances to
brakemen. No through trains have
moved more than II mile out of Albany
since 7 o'clock. The North Shore ex-
press, carrying the United States mail,
which left New York at 1850 p. M, ar
rived here at o'clock. An attempt was
made to run it out of here at 10
o'clock, but before it had gone half a
dozen blocks it was stalled by
strikers, who put on the air-brakes and
crowded the platforms of the cars, pre-
venting the one brakeman who was on
tho train frono tOnchinr hrakQ At