The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-03
TROUBLE OF THE TRAINMEN.
Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern
Cars Under a Boycott.


Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern
Cars Under a Boycott.
Memphis, Tenn, Oct. 2.-The local fed
Grafton of railway employees last night
adopted a resolutionorderiuga boycott on
all Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern
freight and cars. A boycotted Chesapeake
and Ohio Southwestern car last night was
turned into the Kansas City, Memphis
and Birmingham yards and the yard crew
refused to handle it, No discharges were
made, but they are expected to-day, as
under the interstate law, it seems i'm
perative upon the Kansas, Mem
phis and Birmingham people
to handle the freight offered
by the Chesapeake and Ohio South
western. When these discharges are
made no doubt there will be a strike on
the Kansas City line. The trouble on the
Illinois Central and Yazoo and Mississippi
Valley roads has not yet extended beyond
Memphis, but as soon as the organizations
of trainmen have time to act it will prob
ably take in the entire system as the
men are determined to resist the efforts
to reduce wages, and there seems to have
previously been general understanding
among the employees of all the roads.
swITCHMEN OUT.
All the switchmen in the Chesapeake,
Ohio and South western yards are out to
day and only one yard engine is being
worked. 1t is in charge of the train mas
ter. The coal beavers, wipers and sec
tion men in the shops are also out.
The sWitchmen on the Louisville, New
Orleans ond Texas ard Illinois Central
have refused to handle Chesapeake, Ohio
and Southwestern cars and they too have
gone out.
The switchmen in the Memphis and
Chattanooga yards, it is understood, will
strike to-day, and it is stated by the
strikers that they will be joined by the
switchmen in the service of all the roads
centering here before night. This state
ment is hardly true, as to the Louisville
and Nashville, as none of them attended
the meeting last night The yards are
being guarded by policemen and deputy
sheriffs. There is no disorder
A CONFERENCE.
The switchmen of the Illinois Central
and Yazoo and Mississippi valley held a
! conference with the officials at II o'clock,
| but refused to handle Chesapeake, Ohio
and Southwestern ca andtthe strike is
! still on.
The Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf
switchmen will probably go out tonight.
A tie up now will seriously interfere with
| the movement of cotton, which is begin
| ming to move in large quantities.
NO CHANGE IN THE SITUATION.
Memphis, Tenn, Oct. 2, II p. m.-The
strike on the Chesapeake, Ohio and
Southwestern and the Illinois Central
and Yazoo and Mississippi Valley rail
roads at this point has not changed mate
rally to-day, though the outlook for the
dlsaHectlon to extend TO several other
roads is more positive.
The Illinois Central and Yazoo and
Mississippi Valley strikers were offered
inducements to return to work this morn
cause crew was discharged for refus-
ing to handle a boycotted Chesapeake,
Ohio and South western car.
This morning the local authorities re-
instated the discharged crew and all
hands on the Illinois Central and Yazoo
and Mississippi Valley roads returned to
work. A short time later the men walked
out again, saying they guessed they would
not work until the Chesapeake, Ohio
and Southwestern trouble was adjusted
On the Memphis and Charleston, Iron
Mountain and Kansas City, and Fort
Scott and Memphis roads, the men have
refused to handle the Chesapeake and
Ohio and Southwestern cars, but they
have been told that if they ywill not strike,
that the managers will provide non-union
men to do the scab work so the provisions of
the interstate law may not be violated.
If, however, the men refuse also to
handle Illinois Central and Yazoo and
Mississippi Valley cars as they threaten
tonight, strikes may be precipitated all
around.
MIXING UP THE ROADS.
Washington, Oct 2.-Oficials of the
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tention to the fact that in dispatches from
Memphis, Tenn, as to the railroad strike,
because of a reduction of wages, the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad has been
confounded with the Chesapeake. Ohio
and Southwestern SYSTEM now called the
Newport News and Mississippi Valley
railroad. There has been no reduction of
wages and no strike on the Chesapeake
and Ohio. On the contrary, everything
is prosperous.
IMPORTED MEN FILE SUITS.
Louisville, KY, Oct. 2.-Twentv-1ve
suits in behalf of workmen who were
brought here from the south to take the
places of the striking shop men of the
Louisville aud Nashville road were filed
to-day. Ten thousand dollars are asked
for in each case. The grounds of the
suits are that the plaintiffs were brought
here under misrepresentation to their in
jury, Lndb bney were locked up and re-
strained of their liberty, and that they
were refused transportation back to their
homes.
THE LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE
STRIKERS.
Louisville, KY, Oct. 2.-Fourteen of
the striking shopmen of the Louisville
and Nashville railroad returned to work
to-day. About twenty of the new men,
however, joined the strikers. Sixty-three
men arrived this morning from Chicago,
St Paul, and other cities from the north