The evening world., 1893-11-22
LAST EDITION
SWITChMEN 60 OUT.
Fifty Lehigh Employees Quit the
~Communipaw Yards.
This Completely ParaIyzes the
Freight Traffic.
X. oc L. Engineers May Help Fight
the Brotherhood.

Fifty of the ffty-three switchmen en-
ployed in the Lehigh freight yards at
Communipaw went IN strike to-day.
This completely paralyzes the freight
traffic of the road.
The strike was the result of the meet
Ing held last night in Masonic Hall. in
jersey city, when it was decided to call
out the switchmen at this end of the
lire.
Yardmaster Lamb said this forenoon
that there were 100 loaded cars in the
Communipaw yards. If he had engines,
he said he could send out nine heavy
trains to-day. He has not. he said, re-
ceived a float of cars for two days. The
average number received when trains
are moving Is one hundred cars "a day.
All freight is now received subject to
delay, and only that which can wait a
week or two before going forward Is ac-
ceptei.
The passenger train from Easton,
which should have arrived at. 1910, got
into Jers " City at ll.I0. AS 1t ran
rast tho round-house. a crowd Of Central
engineers and firemcn hooted at the
men at the throttle, and cries of ''scab'
were heard above the din.
the engineers and iiremen in their cabs
gineer as he came into one station.
There was a good deal of curiosity
manifested among the strikers to see
whether the order issued last light by
President Wilbur would be obeyed to-
day. 1t was to the effect that unless
all the strikers reported for duty at noon
names taken from the rolls.
at noon not one of the strikers in the
S %Prssl SSarfs w TfRbSrt,sa notice tS : wT Was
posted all around the yard.
There was some Improvement in the
Lehigh Valley PASSENGER train service
tlig morning Tho - local left .JprSay
city for the first time since the strike
was declared. The $40 local also left on
time, and the 81 Buffalo express pulled
out three minute late behind engine 372.
The engineer and fireman were both
~ncn-uniOn men.
While the o.41 was standing in the sta
ton a crowd of Jersey Central en-
ployecs gathered around and guyed the
engineer.
developed when the train from Easton,
duc in Jersey City at S.39, rolled into
the station at 10 O'Clock.
The engineer who brought the train
through, said he was from Philadelphia,
and a knight of Labor. He said he was
an cid Philadelphia and Reading man,
when offered to him. because he wanted
10 square accounts with the Brotherhood
Of locomotive Engineers.
When the knights of Labor engineers
struck on the Reading Road in 1888, he
said the brotherhood engineers came
IN ana tex their places Turn about
""N q IIhN' Nc ll''iShN'
There are nifty sngineers coming from
runs on the Lehigh Valley.
Everything was quiet between here
and liaston when | came through this
morning. We left Easton late, and that
ID why We didn't get in here on time"
The engineer said he was booted by a
crowd Of strikers when he ran past the
Communipaw roundhouse,. and he was
q. little dubious about the kind of reCep-
ton he would get when he took his en-
glne down there,
What was thought to be a crisis in the
SITUATION as regards the possibility of the
New Jersey Central employees taking part
IN the Lch!gh battle was passed over
safely to-day.
The mlch-talked-of LohlEh Valley
fused to handle last night at the ,"Py''
crossing at Rrill's station. as moved over
The Central's tracks to Branchport, ". j.,
THE T : car which caused al the
SSGn Ss to Holli:Trsr : Crane;
he Lehigh Valley road.
The car reached the ."Py" junction at
SrilIS before the strike was ordered.
Mile It was there the hay, was sold TO
,,Branchport firm. This made it virtually
Nov Jersey Central freight.
Inn tentraFs employees did not under
sttand the circumstances connected with
ne fact that the hay was in q. Leh'gh
- ~ anu MUST necessarily ne u
.ehigh shinment. Accordingly they re-
FUSED to touch the car.
This morning Peter Smith. the Jersey
Centr7rs ~yardmaster at Brlll's, tried to
enN1lain matters to the men, but at first
me- would. pay no attention to him.
M, smith wanted the cor taken out Of
.ne WnV at once, hut the Central men re-
thSed to go into the Lehigh vnr,l after
me car. The LehiFh employees likewise
trnfS tracks.
For u time hiolr words passed between
I'VE men. Finally Yardmaster Smith
"mirll engine to haul the car out Of the
munFA very, and IT. was sruntol into n
nnln which was being made N for
pnunif ON the Central road.
oNn would not nv handled the car
sold TIE "~m"lneer to m "I1venin" Worll'
Exporter "if Mr.. Smith had not assured
- maj the carload Of hay was . Jersey
s1HH,raI, shipment, pure and simnle.
Me have made IN our minds not tC
,,n,u"h > Iehigh Valley car under any
circumstances, and II the company in
h.H",WS on our doing It we win quit work.
ne w gave the Lehigh men who wanted
Goals, and they promised to quit as soor
"Tr,ney returned to Jersey city"
ror 2 few minutes to-day It looked
tsrN much as u there would be serious
tboo pen n" engine which. brought il
me lnhiGh trnin due at 12.15 backed dowr
~ ne trun-tahl". n crowd of over on
rrnn,e1 Jersey Central employees sur
W. "u"hed me engine, and much loud tall
Pnrtiy through intimidation and part
oV nrgtinent.. the engineer and fire
dd"Sons on the Lehlgh locomotive were In
"Thsn 70 come down from the cab.
,Llhe Central men had about persuaded
me non-nnion engineer TO abandon thu
r~vnmouve where IL stood when a dele
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