St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-10
REFUSE THE DEMANDS.
Chicago Roads Will Not Advance
the Wages of the Switch
men.
Men Will Be Dis
charged.

CHICAGO, March 9.-Without a dis
Senting vote the general managers of
the railroads entering Chicago deter
mined at their meeting this afternoon
TO refuse any demands of the Switch
mems Mutual Aid association. An
answer was sent to the switchmen by
the general managers of the thirty-two
roads entering Chicago, declining to
grant any increase over the present
schedule of rates, and enclosing the
following resolution, which was passed
unanimously at the meeting:
"Resolved, That this association has
carefully examined the schedule Of
wages paid by the Chicago roads to
ice. and that it fluids that the scale of
wages paid on the Chicago lines is prac-
tically uniform; and we find that the
switchmen of Chicago and vicin-
ity are now paid the high
est rate ever paid for a similar service
and higher than is paid in many locali-
ties. Further, that the revenue from
/ freight and passenger traffic has con-
slantly decreased and the cost of the
service has constantly increased to the
extent that no advance in wages can be
granted, and that no change can be
made from the present schedules of
rules affecting the compensation of men
engaged i'll this service"
This answer was sent to the officers
of the Swltchmen'S association, and
ends the matter so far as the managers
are concerned. The switchmen have
not yet determined what course they
will pursue. and officers of the associa
60 In
ton. If they should decide to
strike the fight against them would
be bitter one, as the general managers
of the thirty-two roads have determined
to act as a unit and fight the men as one
road. a still more significant determi-
nation reached by the general managers
is an agreement TO discharge all union
men on their lines in case the roads
should be crippled by strike
of switchmen. This will apply to
engineers, conductors, firemen, and i'll
fact all branches of organized railroad
labor The general managers say they
will not pay union men for doing moth
ing when their idleness is enforced by
strikers to whom they are giving aid
and announcement.
BALTIMORE, March "a. j. Robin
son is here, the agent of all the railroads
leading westward from Chicago, among
them being the Rock Island, Chicago d
Alton, Illinois Central, Chicago IL
Northwestern Grand Rapids q Indiana.
Mr. Robinson is authorized TO employ
as many men converSant with the duties
of switchmen, yardmen, conductors and
the hauling of trains as come along.
No promises are eXacted about joining
any organization of labor.
CEDAR RAPIDS, To-. March 9.-The
meeting of the different organizations
which was to have been held here today
and tomorrow for completing the buSi-
ness of the meeting held here in De-
cember has been indefinitely postponed.
This action was found necessary on &C
count of the strike of the engineers and
firemen on the Toledo, Ann Arbor q
Northern Michigan railroad, which re-
Quires the attention of the executive
officers of those orders.
TOLEDO, o., March 1.-Two trains are
the sum total of freight movement on
the Toledo, Ann Arbor q Northern
Michigan railroad today. One had con-
siderable freight for the Lake Shore
and Wheeling & Lake Erie railroads,
which was promptly accepted by those
lines. Passenger traffic is moving as
usual.
CHICAGO, March 9.-About 300 archi-
tectural iron workers employed by
George A. Fuller went out OIL strike
today as result of dispute between
the bridge and structural iron workers
union and the architectural iron
workers union. There is no question
of wages involved, the trouble being
over the equal recognition of men en-
plOyed.
PITTsBURG, March 9.-Patrick Nc
Bride, secretary of the United Mine
Workers Of North America, was in the
city today, and in an interview stated
that a general demand for an advance
in the price of mining would be made
on the 1st of May next. If the demand
is refused, he said there would be
strike which would involve all the
miners in the organization.