Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-11-25
REFERRED 1T TO CHILDS
He Declined, Though, to Arbi-
trate the Lehigh Strike.
TROOPS ARE HELD IN READINESS.
Mysterious Sticks of Dynamite Found In
Rochester-Freight Engine Manned by
NonunIon Men Blows Up. and Three May
DIe-FreIEht Yard Being Cleared.


observation-disclosures Engine Manned by
NonunIon Men Blows Up. and Three May
DIe-FrsIEht Yard Being Cleared.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 25.-The report
that the general grievance committee had
called upon George w. Childs to act as
arbitrator in the trouble between the
Lehigh Valley railway officials and their
striking employees has been partially con-
firmed by Mr.. Childs. He said that when
the members of the grievance committee
called upon him day or two ago the SUBJ
ject was preached, but that he declined to
in the capacity of arbitrator.
Z. E. Clark, the official head of the
Brotherhood of Railway Conductors, in
speaking of the proposed arbitration of
the strike, said that the conversation he
and his colleagues had with George w.
Childs had been misconstrued.
What we did was this" said Mr. Clark.
I'VE called on Mr.. Childs to thank him
for an editorial which had appeared in The
Ledger on the subject of the strike and its
causes. wish to say that we have never
gone into any fight that we have not been
willing to submit to any fair minded man,
as Mr.. Childs is, or body of men of equal
impartiality. This we explained to Mr.
Childs, and he asked if we had any such
man or committee in mind.
Il then told him that he was such per-
son and that we would be willing to sub
init our case to his hands. 1t was then he
said he would not care to do anything of
the kind. We did not go to ask him to act
as arbitrator, but had he been willing to so
act we should have been very well pleased,
as his attitude on the labor question is
very generally known"
Thirty-eight men were sent from here to
Bethlehem, who are expected to go to work
today. They were in charge of eight private
detectives One difficulty which confronts
the railway officials is their inability to Sc
cure a sufficient number of competent
freight conductors. Past Grand Operator
Thurston, in speaking of the trouble an
ticipated by the railroad company and the
application for troops, said: There is no
necessity, as far as the strikers go, for any
fear as to their proper conduct. Our men
will not interfere with the railway conf
pany nor with its new employees any fur
ther than to try in peaceable manner to
persuade them not to take the places of
the strikers. This is our right. Our men
have been instructed to go no further than
that. Our reports all show that these in
structions have been and are now being
obeyed."
There is considerable hustle and hurry
about the local armories here over the gem
eral orders for the men to hold themselves
in readiness, with three days rations, to
move at once to the scene of any trouble
that is likely to occur. The Sixth infantry
of Chester and surrounding towns has also
received such an order. The order is gen
orally admitted to be purely measure of
precaution, but it has the appearance of
business.
None of the railway officials here had
any new information to give out, but re-
iterated that everything was going on very
satisfactorily for them.