The evening world., 1893-11-22
A Few Non-Union Employees
Enrolled for Service.
Fifty Brotherhood Switchmen Leave
Communipaw Yards.
An Attempt win He Made 10 Move
Freight.


rloyed in thu Lehigh freight yards at
Communipaw went on strike to-day.
This completely paralyzes the freight
traffic of the road.
The strike was the result OF the meet
ins held last night in Masonic Han. in
jersey city, when 1t was decided to call
ont the switchmen at this end Of the
line.
Nardmaster Lamb said this forenoon
that there were 100 loaded cars In the
Communipaw yards. If he had engines,
he saii. he could send out nine heavy
trains to-day. He has not. he said. re-
ccived a float of cars for two days. The
/ average number received when trains
are moving is one hundred cars n day.
All freight is now received subject to
delay. and only that which can walt a
week or two before going forward is ac-
Ce7ted.
/ The pa senger train from Easton.
whi"t should have arrived at fo.4o. got
into Jers " city at n.45. As II ran
! asst the round-house. a crowd of Central
engineers and fremen hooted at the
men at the throttle and cries Of ''scab'
were ncar1 above the din.
/ The m ineers and firemen In their cabs
also hnoted al the Lehlgh Valley e4i-
! gtreer az he came into the station.
| There was good deal of curiosity
manifested among the strikers 70 see
whether the order issued last night by
President Wilbur would be obeSed tl,-
! day. 1t was to the effect that unless
an the strikerS rcp2rted foF d4tg at nom
, names taken from the rolls.
| AT noon not one of the strikers In the
! Cnnlmuripa~ Yards renorted for work.
althoush President wileur's notioe vas
posted all around the yard.
| There was sore Improvement IN the
Lehigh Valley passenger train service
ti. 5ht, morning ToI The ~ local left iJersey
was declared The 9l0 local also left on
! time. and the 81 Buffalo express pulled
out three minutes late behind engine 80.
4 The engiEeer and fireman were both
] non-union men. ....
While the o.N was standing In the sta
ton crowd OF Jersey Central em-
ployeeS gathered around and guyed the
: engineer.
A new end to the story of this strike
/ developed when the train from Easton.
due in Jersey city at S3s. rolled into
ths station at 10 O'Clock.
The engineer who brought the train
through. said he was from Phiiadelphia.
| ana a Knight of Labor. He said he was
! an old Philadelphia AMI Reading man.
ana had taken the Leh!gh Valley run
when offered TO him. because he wanted
| Of l.ocGmotivc Enainscrs.
When the Knights OF Labor engineers
strnck on the Reading Road in lsSs. he
! =
in and took their places. Turn about
Was fair play; ne thought
There are fifty engineers coming from
| Reading to-day he continued ITO take
runs on the Lehigh Valley.
"EyLerything was quiet between here
ana an T., EastoT m when ] came through this
Is why We didn't get in here on time.
The engineer said he was hooted by O
crowd Of strikers when he ran past the
Communtpaw roundhouse., and he was
a little dubious about the kind of recep-
ton he would get when he took his en-
! Eins down there
situation rs regards the possibility of the
New Jersey Central employees taking part
IN the I.ehish battle was passed over
The much-talked-ot LehlGh Valley
rr"tgHt car which the Central r,en rs-
fusel TO handle last night at the ''Y''
, crossing AZ Brlfs station, as moved over
the Centrafs tracks TO Branehport, N. j..
about noon. -. .'ts.s7
The The cav which Which, csasSa ; all the
SSS%v'xq~a SswtrE ~ h0''':fSr T6e hay c'aas; Ms:
shpPet i,s2 some Ts DAY; DAYS ago from point on
The car ~cachei the "Y'' junction at
Rrill before thr strike was ordered.
While /, was there the hay, was sold 70
I Now Jersey Central freight.
/ The Centr2fs employees did not under
stand the ctrcumstances connected with
/
| the fact that the hay was In a Lehigh
| Valley car, and must necessarily be q
| I.shigh shipmsnt. Accordingly they re-
| fused TO touch the car.
This morning Peter Smith. the Jersey
Centrals yarimaster at Brilrs. tried to
explain matters to the men. but at first
they would pay no attention to him.
| Mr.. Smith wanted the car taken out OF
| the way at once, hut the Central men re-
| fused To go into the Lehigh yard after
the car The I.ehigh employees likewise
| refused to run the car on to the Cen
! trails tracks.
/ For n time high words passed between
| the men. Finally Yardmaster Smith
| nrevailed upon the engineer OF Jersey
| Central engine to haul the car out Of the
| l-htgh ward, and II was shunted Into a
| train which was being made up for
points ON the Central road.
We would not have handled the car.
said the engineer to an Evening World
us that the carload of hay was Jersey
Central shipment pure and simple,
I'VE have made up our minds not TO
touch Iehigh Valley car under any
circumstances, and II the company in
sists on our doing Il we will quit work.
I'VE gave the Lehish men who wanted
us 20 handle the car hauling over the
Goals, and they promised to Quit as soon
as they returned 20 Jersey City"
For few minutes TODAY II looked
trouble at the Communipaw round-house.
When the engine which brought IN
the I.ehiGh train due ct 1918 backed down
to the turn-table, crowd OF over ona
hundred Jersey Central employees sur
rounded the engine. and much loud taii<
Partly through Intimidation and perf
ly by argument. the engineer and hrI
Coaaased on TARd RueAl
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