Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-08-24
MORE MEN TO QUIT.
Buffalo Strike May Extend from New
York to Chicago.

Buffalo Strike May Extend from New
| York to Chicago.
BUFFALO, n. Y, Aug. 18.--The sixth
day OF the switchmen strike in this
city closed with increasing complica-
TONS. The leaders of this strike have
| witnessed the movement and massing
OF troops and are growing in determi-
nation to meet every advance of their
| opponents With counter stroke. Be-
tore tomorrow shall have dawned 5000
troops IN the state service will be upon
the field here to watch and control
! about 800 strikers. The presence here
OF SO large number of soldiers is re-
lied upon by the railway officials as a
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 problemat e; but it is not be-
yond the range Of near possibilities
that the tiremen and the trainmen on
all the lines where strikes now prevail,
may be called out. The situation NAV
be broadly stated thus:
The latest addition of strength to the.
striking sWitchmen was ninety men IN
the. Nickel Plate yards who struck
against handling bOycotted freight. So
now the swltchmen upon the entire
out. The Lake Shore men, to be sure,
were working on the Western schedule
at the same rates for which their col
leagues in Buffalo went oIt solely to add
strength to the movement of their fell
lows. The Nickel Plate men who went
out to-day struck only out of sym patty,
Tor they are receiving at least 10 per
cent. higher rates than then men who
originated the strike The Michigan
Central which is of the Vanderbilt sys-
tenn, practically has no yards in Buffalo,
their switching being done on the Cen
trails tracks. So stands the Wander
bit system, so far as the strike IN this
clJy IS concerned.
The leaders of the striking men de-
clare that The Vanderbilt roads are tied
up and Inactive at this point. They
urge in addition that the Erie, the Le-
high Valley and the Buffalo Creek
roads are likewise paralyzed by the
strike. They feel that the movement
against the roads has now reached such
magnitude and completeness IN this To-
cality that it may not be necessary for
any men in allied trades TO be called out
at this point. The reserve ground for
operations is a possible calling out of
the sw1tchmen on the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna d Western; Buffalo, Rochester
d Plttsburg, and the Western New
York d Pennsylvania roads. The rela-
tlons Of these roads with the strike
leaders are extremely pleasant and
they will not be called out unless to
make the strike absolutely complete in
this vicinity. Indeed it is more proba-
bic that the firemen and the tralnmen
will be called out on the lines already
affected by the switchmen.
Before morning switchmen of the
DE- o4Eo tod
called out at Suspension Bridge, Hor-
nelsville, Jersey City and Rochester.
The Delaware, Lackawanna q Western
has already conceded the rate de-
manded of the men, and went even
further to-day and formally notified
its employees that they would not be
asked to handle pound of boycotted
freight. The result is that the men Of
that road are 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 strikers regarded the Western New
York q Pennsylvania officials and the.
Rochester q Pittsburg officials as a
'gentlemaniy lot"
There can he no doubt tonight, that
before yielding this fight the leaders
Will extend their strike West even to-
Chicago and eastward to New York.
calling out, perhaps, not
only switchmen. but tiremen and train
men. The strikers look forward to de-
in the next three days.
he is keeping his where
abouts profoundly secret, there can be
little doubt that Master Workman Sar-
gent Of the Locomotive Firemen's or
ganization is in this city The strikers
claim full sympathy on the part of the
fremen, and they state that if they
are called out they will quit their en-
gines wherever the order may reach
them. Master Workman Wilkinson, of
the Trainmen's order, is here tonight
and it IS said that his men are ready to
join the switchmen whenever ordered,
but that the fremen, if ordered out,
will probably be first called. 1t is we'll
to remember in weighing the claims
and statements Of the strikers that this
unlike that of two years
ago upon the Central, bears the stamp
of official regularity. 1t has been
handled and directed with deliberation
and the strikers tonight say that if
deemed necessary in the next three
days the movement will be extended
from New York to Chicago.