Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-22

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but want you TO emphasize that fact
that If the firemen go out the conductors,
trainmen. engineers and telegraphers
viii go with them. The public have
wrong impression in this matter and the
papers have been misleading them. The
papers have been talking of the fremen
as If they were going to go out as a sep
arate body That is not So They will
not go out alone.
sympathetic SiTike. II Any.
"What is the specific grievance Of the
iremen in this city?'
"They have none that know Of But
it is now a question as TO whether the
railroad corporations or the different
bodies of organized labor are to succeed
Suppose that the switchmen are defeated
in this struggle, what then In the
future whenever the firemen. engineers,
or any other order of railroad employees
90 TO their corporations with requests or
grievances they viii simply be ignored.
II viii be a sympathetic strike altogether
Ia struggle between the railroad corpor-
ations and organized labor
"If the switchmen are defeated at this
time it is serious blow TO organized
labor If they are supported aud main
tanned by their brother organizations
and carry their point it will tend to give
the organizations their rights in the
future AS you might say it is purely a
struggle for self preservation.
Must Have General Endorsement.
''Can the local organization of firemen
go out on their own responsibility
NO Any local organization is liable
to expulsion from the order for striking
without a two-thirds vote and the con
sent of certain executives of the organi-
zation.
How many fremen are there in the
immediate vicinity of Buifal0f
II should say Buffalo could produce in
the neighborhood of 200
The Railroads Would be in a Bad Way.
"In the case of the firemen going out
do you think the roads could get new
men enough TO operate the linesY'
"No, do not Business is good anc
the country is not OverstOcked with
skilled railroad men out of jobs"
Reviewing the Strike in General.
Glow soon will it be determined wha
action will be takeng'
That I can't tell. Mr. Sweeny ha
sent for the executives Of the variou
orders of railroad employees. and after
conference has been held it will be known
But let me assure You that before tn
fremen 90 out certain railroad official
will know it, and probably the public a
, we'll Our order is well organized ant
we do business in a business-lk
! manner.
an. ...,, 1r,,,..r oftrrf l,ftttr ul lont thraf
years contract that the Central ha
with its menY
Nothing.
'Do YOU consider that it was nece.
sary to bring troops into Buflaloy'
Positively not. It seems TO me tins
there might have been found a suiiicier
number of brave men in Buffalo to az
as deputies without calling out the un
! formed troops That is the way it looks
an Indiana man. ] do not believe tn,
/ these acts Of lawlessness and violen'
I have been committed by switchmen.
far as I know them they are men of con
5 mon sense and honor and would d
{ nothing of this sort. But in this, as
e ell other strikes have ever known abou
e there are many disreputable gangs han.
e ing about who commit these depred
Z tions and railroad men are blamed f
them.
He spoke Of Grand Master Sweeny
in the highest terms, but as he had ~
yet seen him he was unable 60 say wh'
/ the important conference would be hel
4 Governor Flowers vacation Plans Ups'
A., WATERTowy, N. Y, Aug. 22.-Go
v ernor Flower left here for Albany III
n morning at 0O5, his plan for a vacatil
% in the Adirondacss having been int
e fered with by the strike.
n Erie and Reading Roads in a Normal sta
LBy Telegraph to the Evening Journal.
N NEW YohK, Aug. pa dispatch W
r received this morning by General Eai
y ern Freight Agent Krase, Of the Readin
m from b. H. Bail, the general freig
al agent at Philadelphia. directing h
n. hereafter to receive freight Of any
" scription for all points. Mr. krase sa
as the Reading was now handling
in freight without any difficulty
Orders TO receive all freight have be
en- issued from the Lake Erie railroad he's
is quarters. At their Office it was said IL
to morning that the strike at Buffalo W
re to them thing of the past aad they a
ticipated no more difficulty.