Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-08-20
WEBB SAYS The
STRIKE is OYER
Many Central Switchmen Ask
To Be Taken
Back.
NEAaLY:ALL THE ROADS INVOLVED
MOVING FREIGHT.

The Central Is Taking All Business Of
fered--SituatiOn in the Erie Yards Great
Iy Improved--NOn-Un Union Men Stoned
Troops Called to Guard Property at
Waverly--whIle the Situation Has Ina
proved the Trouble Is Not Ended.
BUFFALO,, N. Y, Aug. 2O.-The gen
eral situation in the East Buffalo var DIS is
quiet, suppressed uncertainty. Represen-
tatives of the United Press after a thor
ough tour of the important posts estab-
lished by Gen. Doyle find the troops and
police alert All the troops ordered
have arrived, been posted, and are unusu-
ally alert for men not schooled in the
dreariest school of the soldier, guard duty.
As far as the switchmen are concerned
there is no doubt that the great strike
here is over. 1t is only question of day
or two when every road which has been
drawn into the struggle will have a plen-
tiful supply of men and will be doing the
usual amount of business. The Central
are doing it now. There is no question
about this. From one freight house alone
they loaded and sent out yesterday more
than ITO car loads of freight. That is
considerably above the average days
work for that house. Vice-President
Webb says:
1.-THE Central is precisely in the same
position that it was before there was any
trouble. We are doing the normal amount
of business, perhaps more than the nor
NAL amount. Our depots at Erie, Green,
Black Rock and East Buffalo are running
full time, and all the business that we
have we handle. We are are a little short
on Lake Shore because of the strike in
their yard. They cannot give US the
of fIaiu obi fhat lu 10
We are receiving all the Michigan Cen
trail stuff and handling that. We have
not delayed a single lake boat. There
has not been an hours delay. The strike,
SO far as we are concerned, is over"
Central Strikers Come Back.
1t is said that Knights of Labor from
Eastern places are here to take the posi-
tions made vacant by the STRIFE, and that
the old hands who struck Monday night
are falling over each other in their en-
deavors to be taken back in the employ of
the New York Central road.
A committee of striking switchmen
waited on Supt. Gould in the afternoon
and asked if they could go back to work
They were led by John WEIGH. "We are
ready to go back to work because we be-
lieve now that there are enough troops
here to protect us. The reason we struck
was because we thought we'd get killed If
we remained at work. We were threatened
by the strikers from other roads. The
men approached us and threatened to take
our lives if we remained at work" The
switchmen will be put to work very
soon.
The failure of the strike on the Central
Railroad so early in the game is
looked upon as death blow to the
switchmen's union. 1t means that every
road will be able to follow the CentraTs
lead, and now that the X. of l.. men have
appeared to take the places of the strikers
9Th strike is off, )" as one of the railroad
officials put it.
This, however, does not mean at all that
the trouble is at an end. Grand Master
Sweeney's request to the engineers, fire
men and trainmen to come out has yet
to be acted upon.
c. A. Beach, train master of the New
York Centralat Syracuse, was sent for
yesterday to take charge of the company's
East Buffalo yards. Trainmaster Thomas
Maloney, who has been acting as general
yardmaster, was assigned to the charge
of the Ohio street yards, through which
the lake freight passes. Mr.. Maloney has
his hands full there handling the large
amount of freight that passes through
there. From the report made by Assist
Supt. Rossiter he has been caring for it in
good shape.
In the LehiRh Yard.
"A halt has occurred in the movement
of freight from the Lehigh yards. At 10
o'clock an order came to move no freight
East until further orders. 1t was learned
that the freight cannot be received in the
yards East, and it was thought better to
hold the freight here. Several trains were
made UP ready to move and the engines
were ready to take them out.
An official said that the LehiGh yards
were in good condition and could be
cleaned in short order if the Eastern
points were open. The Lehigh already
has men enough to do the work Nearly
all the perishable freight has now been re-
moved.
Notwithstanding the denial made by
President Sloan that the Lackawanna
would handle freight from the roads on
strike, the men say they will not refuse
to handle any freight offered them pro-
vided itHis not freight which has been di-
verified from roads on strike. If this is
done trouble may follow.