The Red Cloud chief., 1893-11-24
TRAINMEN ON A STRIKE.
rle-UP ON TIE WHOLE OF THE L.
HIGH VALLEY LINE.

The Men 10 the Number Of 1900 Leave
Their Trains and Block Bu~siness-Co,n-
pany to Fight the strikc-Prospect Of .
Repetition OF the Toledo.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 20.-A general
strike has been ordered or the entire
system of the Lehigh Valley railroad and
the road is tied up. The cause is the COM
pany's refusal to recognize any committee
or body OF men as the representative OK
the employees Of the road-in other words,
to recognize the union. After repeated
attempts made by the grand officers Of the
several railway organizations to gain
audiences with the officials Of the road,
and after a subcommittee from the gen.
eral committee, sitting at the Bingham
house in this city, composed OF bona. ide
employees Of the road. had failed to secure
recognition from the roads highest repre-
sentative in this city-Vice President
Voorhees, -the order to quit was tele-
graplied to all the employees along the
line of the road.
The men say they will countenance no
violence and that every train has been
taken to its destination and the locomotives
duly attended to the same as II there were
no strike. Eighteen hundred men are in
volved in the strike directly. There Is no
issue as to the cause OF the strike, both
parties having issued statements that
agree substantially in that respect. The
strike, 1t Is said, will act very disadvantage
ously against the anthracite coal trade at
oil points between tho coal regions and the
lake and seaports II 1t Is p%rotracted any
length Of time. BY this 1t will probably
be the cause Of shutting down many OF the
mines, aud throwing thousands Of men
aud boys out Of work until the trouble 10
settled.
Strike on at Various Places.
kilograms state that the strike 10 on at
Easton. Wilkesbarre, South Bethlehem,
Buffalo lin the freight business), Rochester
(N. W. and other places. At Rochester.
+. w. Prentice, deputy grand chief OF The
order of Railroad Photographers. Is busy
sending out dispatches to operators asking
them to strike. One Of these dispatches
read: Don't be a scab; DO n man" At
Buffalo, the western terminus OF the
northern division, the work Of %reorganiz-
ing freight crews Is proceeding. With the
experience derived from the struggle in
August last year the superintendent and
his aides hope to overcome tho yard block
ade in IA few days. A gang Of laborers IL
engaged in bringing down, from a store
room in the upper floors OF the Lehigh
Valley station several wagon loads Of cota
t and cooking utensils which were used In
{ last years strike.
Lehigh Ready to Hire Men.
u These were being taken out to the East
Buffalo car shops to improvise a lodging
house for recruits to the freight crews
The Lebigh Is ready to hire men to take
the places Of the strikers. How many
Q men are needed cannot be told exactly
At Buffalo there are about 800 employe,
Of the Lehigh and perhaps one.third o.
= that number are out. Most Of these arr
i trainmen. At Sayre the officials Of thu
road admit that fully half Of their mel
! are ont. They include brakemen ant
y fremen principally and II few engineer
and conductors. In Buffalo the freigh
conductors have not refused to take on
trains BECAUSE they have not been asked
d and there will be no chance to know HOY
Il many Of them will join the strike unit
l. they are supplied with full crews and oil
x. dered to move trains. No passenger me
H. 30 far nave refused to work.
Or Uncomplimentary Compliments.
= ut leitueTS III tue uRut utNe Dckhu Z
~ lose their tempers. Vice President Woo
ID hees, when told that Chief Wilkin
Up charged that the company had omitted
IS number Of the provisions agreed upon las
summer, said: Tell Mr.. wilkins, wit
my compliments, that he lies. and I hav
nc the documents to prove t." Wilkinl
Is when told Of this, said he returned til
NJ compliments and also had document
IT. What the strikers understand violence
III to mean is not known, but reports froi
or various points tell Of trains being forcibl
ne stopped. and in one case the trains ere
u: was stoned.
III MAJ Bring Up Another Toledo Case.
%, Members OF the brotherhood were aske
n II the trouble would extend to other road
ks "Yes, II they move Lehigh freight that v
al have refused to move" was the reply.
n is understood here that the Lehigh will
met with refusals II they request parall
lines to move their freight from every roa
except the New York Central. 1t wi
nj this refusal TO take "scab" freight tn
he brought on the celebrated Toledo case
ID. which Judge Kicks decided that trainm,
X. had no right to strike under such circur
stances. The Lehigh will fight the stril
ial and its officials claim to be able to G
on plenty Of men In u short time.