Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-23
SOME MORE sWITcHMsN STRIKE.
Refuse to Handle Central Freisht-Other
Strikes Threatened.

Refuse to Handle Central Freight-Other
Strikes Threatened.
BUFFALO, Aug. 23.-The union switch
men of the Western New York and Penn
sylvania road went out on strike yester-
day afternoon. Forty five switchmen were
employed in the Louisiana, Babcock and
Emslie streets yards of the road. 4 week ago
when the New York Central, Lake Shore.
West Shore, Erie, and Lehigh Valley
switchmen went ont the Western New
York and = Pennsylvania swltchmen asked
for the same wages and hours the other
roads demanded. Superintendent Bell
listened to them and rather than have
strike and tie up of the road he granted
their demands. The men were satisfied
as long as no attempt was made by the
road to have them receive freight from
other roads on which a strike existed.
Yesterday the New York Central sent over
u long string of freight cars loaded with
hard coal. The Western New York and
Pennsylvania men refused to handle it.
They visited Superintendent Bell and Di-
vision Superintendent c. Dabley and told
them that they would go out if the road
insisted upon making them handle freight
from roads whose men were out.
Forty-fve More Out of a Job.
Bell and Dabley reasoned with them
that they must receive New York Central
freight, and asked if the road had no: done
enough when it granted their demands a
week ago. The answer was negative The
men then struck and left the yards. 1t is
not probable the road will grant the new
demands of its employees, and it was un-
derstood last night that their places would
lol ho
west. Last night the big yards were de
serted, except by the troops. The Tenth
battalion of Albany, the Forty-sixth sep.
arate company from Amsterdam. and the
Twenty-first from Troy were on duty in
the w. N. Y. and p. yards. There were
more rumors of the Lackawanna and Buff
falo, Rochester and Pittsburg men going
out.
More Strikas Threatened.
A general meeting of trainmen and other
railroad men was hSld at GammePs hall,
on Seneca street. last night. 1t could not
be learned whether any business of impor-
tance came mp. The switchmen also held
q late meeting at Keiser's hall, on Seneca
street Although it was declared that
Grand Master Sweeney attended it, what
he said was not stated. Questioned about
the switchmen's expectations regarding
the firemen one OF the men said they did
not desire to involve any one else in the
strike if they could help it. ave have not
done half that we can do without outside
assistance" said he. "If they should sue
ceed in raising the blockade here the men
in Chicago. Cleveland Detroit, and Jersey
City and other places are prepared to go
out"
Gould's Son Camping the Floor.
Owing TO rumors of a coming strike
among the photographers and fears that
the wires might be cut :he signal corps
was busy getting into practice yester-
day afternoon at the headquarters of the
Seventy first New York regiment-Camp
No.. Nearly 200 men are comfortably
lodged there in freight cars, so surrounded
by tracks and cars that no one would sus-
pct their presence there. The officers,
among them Jay Gould's son, Captain
Edwin Gould, sleep on the floor of the
third story Of the Erie -four station near
Bailey avenue.