The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27
WORK Observation-Disclosures
Lake Erie & Western Freight Trains
Again in Motion All Along the Line.
Basis Of Settlement Seems to Be Satisfactory to
Both Employees and 0ficials-Changed
Scene in the Yards at Lafayette.
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LAFAYETTE, Ind. Aug. 26.-It Is amazing
what . change has been produced in the
yards of the Lake Erie g. Western road
within twelve hours. Yesterday the yards
were filled with men, little groups here and
there, everybody wide awake and watch
full, as if expecting something serious was
about to take place. The long tracks in
the yards were filled with loaded freight
cars. awaiting an opportunity to be hauled
out. To-day all is changed. There are no
groups OF idle men in the yards or around
the shops; the tracks are empty, the cars
having been hauled out; the switch engines
are putting up and dow the tracks, and no
sheriff's deputies are fitting in and out of
the round house, or warning people not to
cross the dead ~line"-that is, not to try to
enter the building. Instead of anxiety be-
ing depicted on the faces of the railway
men or local officials. smiles predominant;
everything, in fact. denotes that the strike
is off, and the wheels that had been die
since the 18th are going round as fast as
steam can turn them.
This strike was never excelled in some
particulars. The men were not drinking.
or. if occasionally one of them was discov-
cred taking q drop too much, his friends
hustled him to the rear and looked after
him until he was sober. Only one or two
collisions occurred between the men who
came here to take the places of the strikers
and the latter, and these could have been
avoided. The basis of settlement Is appar-
emily satisfactory to both sides, and the
TO be submitted by the company by next
Monday will be liberal in its offers. and
that there will be no great difficulty in
reaching q satisfactory conclusion.
While there is said to be some feelin0on
the part of the managers of the road at the
fact that the local officers did not step into
the breach and attempt to aid the company
in getting out cars. whether or no, still the
there would nav been bloodshed. The
men were just as determined on the one
side as was the railway company on the
other. and had q lot of new or inexperi-
men or deputy sheriffs they might q
precipitated the very thing they were en-
ployed to prevent. AS it IS. no lives were
lost. and no serious injury done to persons
OF property.
The peaceful settlement of the trouble
will also be hailed with delight by the en-
gineers. For some reason. not apparenton the
surface, there wasa belief in the minds Of o
great many persons that whenever the su-
preme moment came that the freight trains
were ready to go out, if 1t came at all, the
engineers would Demand that the company
give them some assurance that the men
| put on as brakemen and conductors were
| experienced in those c~allings, and that If
this could not be done. then they would in
sist on experienced aids. Such reports were
freely circulated among the strikers, but
General Manager Bradbury said to your
correspondent that there was not the faint
est ground for any such reports. The on
gineers and firemen were loyal men. ready
to go out on the road whenever the order
was given to do SO. During exciting times
like those Transporting here for the last nine
days, many of these reports get into clrcu-
lation; how nobody knows. But fortunate
ly it was all liked up in time to prevent the
| test being made as to whether or not the
engineers would have to take sides for or
against the company.
Reports from Muncie, Peru and other
points say tue strikers resumed work, and
that they were busy starting In motion the
accumulated cars of freight.
Deadlock Over tho window-Glass Scale.
PIrTsBURG, Pa, Aug. 26.-Sub-commit-
tees of the window-glass manufacturers
and workers conferred this evening on the
scale for the ensuing season. Messrs. Hart.
| of Muncie, Ind, and Messrs. Chambers and
| Loefaock, of Pittsburg. represented
the former, and President Eberharr
and Messrs. Walters and Swearer the lat
ter. The manufacturers Withdrew the de-
mand previously made for an ~all-ar0und
reduction of 10 per cent. in wages; The
suit Is o deadlock. and it is impossible to
say how long the fires may be drawn.
Non-Union and Union Beer.