The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-08-19

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Fight 70 y what the Roads
are Doing In the Way Of Moving
Freight. .sis4 .,s
BugrA1o, N. Y, August ls-The
sixth day Of the switchmen's strike in
this city closed with increasing compli-
cations. The leaders of this strike have
witnessed the movement and massing
OF troops with growing determination
to meet every advance Of their oppo-
nents with a acounteE stroke. Before to-
morrow shall have dawned, 5000 troops
in the state service will be upon the
field here to watch and control about
500 strikers. The presence Of SO large
number OF soldiers is relied upon by
the railway officials as cover under
which they may put to work non.union
men already engaged to break the
freight blockade.
What the counter-stroke OF the
strike leaders may be to this situation
was at nightfall tonight problemattcal
but tbs not beyound the range OF near
possibilities that the fremen and the
trainmen on all the lines where strikes
now prevail may be called out
THE SITUATION.
The situation may be broadly stated
thus: The latest addition OF strength
to the striking switchmen was ninety
men in the Nickel Plate yards, who
struck because asked to handle boycott
ted freight. The switchmen upon the
entire Vanderbilt system in this yfcini-
ty are out. TheLake Shore men, to be
sure, are working on the Western
schedule at the game rates for which
their colleagues in Buffalo went on
strike last Saturday. They went out
solely to add strength to the movement
( of their fellows. The Nickel Plate men
who went out to-day struck only out OF
sympathy, for they are receiving a.
least ten per cent higher rates than
the men who originated the strike.
The leaders of the striking men hold
tonight that the Vanderbilt roads are
tied up and inactive at this point.
.They urge in addition that the Erie,
( the Lehieh Valley and the Buffalo
Creek roads are likewise paralyzed by
the strike. They feel that the move-
ment against the roads by the men has
now reached such magnitude and COM
pleteness in this locality that II may
not be necessary forlthe men in allied
trades to be called out at this point.
RESERVE GROUND.
Thereserve ground for operations ia
a possible calling out Of the switchmen
ON the Delaware, Lackawanna & West
ern; Buffalo, Rochester, 4 Pittsburgh
and the Western New York and Penn
sylyania roads. The relations OF these
roads with the strike leaders are ex-
tremely 'amicabl lie, and they will not be
called out except to make the strike
absolutely complete in this vicinity.
Indeed, il is more probable that the
fireman and the trainmen will be called
out on the lines already affected by the
switchmen's strike.
The writingof this digest OF the aitu-
alton at the hour OF 0 o'clock Is elnbar-
rassed by the TACT that even before
dawn Of tomorrow switchmen OF the
various roads affected here may be
called out at Suspension Bridge,
HornellsyflIe, Jersey City and possibly
Rochester and Albany.
LOYAL MEN.
The Delaware, Laekawanna 4 West
ern, which has already conceded the
rate demands OF the mon, went even
further to-day and formally notified its
employees that they would not be asked
TO handle a pound Of boycotted freight.
The result is that the men Of this road
arc extremely loyal to it. One Of them
in the yards. to-day remarked that he
and his colleagues would be ready even
TO fight for their employers. The Htfik-
ers regard the Western New York q
Pennsylvania officials aud the Roches-
ter & Pittsburgh officials as sgentle-
manly lot" *
There can be no doubt tonight but
that before yielding this fight, the lead
ers will extend the strike west, even
to Chicago, and eastward To- New York,
ultimately calling out, perhaps not
only switchmen, but fremen and
trainmen. The strikera look forward
to developments within the next three
days.
Although he is keeping his where
abouts profoundly secret, there can be
little doubt that Master Workman Saf-
geant, of the locomotive firemen's or
eanization. is Ia this city. The strikers
claim full sympathy on the part otthe
firemen and they state that II they are