Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-14
TIED-UP.
New York Central Railway EN-
ployes on a Strike.
About $4,000 of Them Suddenly Quit
Work-The Demands of the Men
Several Big Western Lines
Are Threatened.
IDLE TRAINS


NEW YORK. Aug. 9.-WithoEt word
OF warning $4,000 Knights Of Labor
employed on the New York Central
railroad between New York and Bufa-
10 went on strike at o'clock Friday
evening, and the key-road OF the Van
derbilt system was al a standstill.
Trains were abandoned at whatever
point OF the road had been reached at
that moment. The fast mail trains were
allowed TO run unobstructed, manned
by actual strikers. The primary cause
of the stoke was the frequent discharge
of Knights employed on the road. The
protests against this method were IN
needed. and offers of compromise were
rejected. The men also presented a
set of demands, which were refused.
The demands of the men are for a
minimum days wages of Sl.50; station
agents to receive an increase Of S. a
month; men in yards at Troy and Green
Island to receive the same compensa-
tion as at Schenectady and East AL
bany; all firemen on six-wheel con-
nected engines to receive 2ls cents a
mile; all engineers on same, cents; 4
wheel-engineers, So cents mile; fire.
men, cents mile; for all men, over
time. double pay.
New YORK Aug. 1.-THE New York
Central road succeeded in moving sew
eral passenger trains on Saturday and
Sunday, but no freight trains have ar
rived or been sent out. The switchmen
employed on the West Shore road have
r,,srr 80 Nf I oh &c,
the number of strikers at from IL, 900 to
$4,000 The company discredits these
figures, and declare that not more than
1000 have quit work
At conference of the district leaders
of the knights of Labor here Sunday.
it was decided to tie up the Lake Shore
and the Michigan Central railroads this
morning from Buffalo to Chicago. AS a
result of this order all yardmen, switch
men and brakemen of those roads be-
| longing to the Knights of Labor will
not 60 to work to-day. This strike
Is in the main a sympathetic one.
1 but the employees of the Lake
Shore and Michigan Central claim that
| they have grievances similar to those of
| the strikers on the New York division
of the Central. Locomotive firemen on
the New York division of the Central
from New York 10 Albany went out at
midnight.
At midnight all the locomotive fire.
men members of the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Firemen on the Hudson
River division Of the New York
Central & Hudson River railroad joined
the striking Knights Of Labor who went
out Friday night. This detection OF
firemen will, it is feared, completely
block travel over the New York Central
between this city and Albany, as the
members of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers are pledged not to run
with any firemen except those belong.
ing to the brotherhood Of Locomotive
| Firemen.
Secretary Hayes of the knights,
called on Vice-President Webb Sunday
evening and left a letter from Father
Doucey favoring arbitration Mr.
Webb declined TO treat with Mr. Hayes
as he said there was nothing to arbi
trate, and the company would not take
back the discharged men under any cir
cumstances.
ALBANY, n. Y, Aug 1l-Sunday
Wilson S. Bissell, general superintend-
ent of the New York Central road fol
this section, admitted that Mr. Wander
bilt, through Vice-President Webb, had
issued an order to fight the strike even
if they had to spend $1,000, 600 He
thought the strike would be one of the
largest and most extended ever seen in
this country.