Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-07-03
THE STRIKE.
The SwItchmen Decide to Go
Out.
AND THEY DID so LAST EVENING

One Train East and One West Early This
Morning-The Rock Island Switch Crews
Last Evening - Milwaukee Freights
| Taken On-General News of the Situation.
The strike is still in full blast in
Rock Island. The c., K. l. g. p.
switchmen went out last evening at 6
O'Clock, leaving no crew to straighten
out the yard except the officials. and
of these Iardmastcr Mckee. Night
fardmaster Van Dyke and Trainmas-
ter Jones constituted themselves in
to crew for switching the Mil
wauke train and getting it in shape
10 run out this morning.
President Burke, of the local A. Il.
L., stated this afternoon that the
switchmen had held the position
from the first that they would stand
by their brothers at Blue Island. and
that the strike had now assumed the
position OF q labor against capital
| battle, and it must be the final great
test and settlement of the issue one
way or the other, and that no union
railroad man would work with a
scab anywhere. A mass meeting
will be held tonight at Killers hall.
Yesterday morning the c., r. l. &
l.. local went east as far as Geneseo,
where it turned and came back. A
meat train was sent east in the after
| noon, however.
Two Trains Today.
Two passenger trains on the Rock
Island went through todav-No. ].
due here last evening ut 500. left
Chicago Mt ESQ and arrived in Rock
Island nj 2:25 this morning; No. 6.
going east, left Rock Island on time.
at $50 this morning. But these
will in all probability be all the
trains through today. rs all trains in
and out OF Kansas City and Omaha
are annulled.
| This afternoon q train of three
cabooses went out on the c.. X. |. IL
F.. carrying about thirty of the en-
| gineers, conductors. iiremen and
brakemcn, who are ont of employ
ment on account OF the strike. TO
their homes at Blue Island and Chi
cago.
This afternoon n train was made
| up at Joliet and started west on No.
Is time and due here st 500.
The Milwaukee,.
The Milwaukee passenger trains
are moving all right. as far as Rock
Island is concerned, Conductor Cor
rfgan bringing in Conductor Nc
Naney's Milwaukee passenger last
and departing this morning. while
Conductor Fuller was in and out with
his Freeport passenger as usual.
Conductor Myers freight train which
! left here yesterday afternoon for Sa-
wanna pulled in on the sidetracb at
Thompson and the crew left there.
going on light to Savanna. The
| train included number of ears of
pcrishable goods sent forward from
Rock Island. Conductor joyce
brought his Savanna freight in last
| night, but received orders not to take
it out this morning. The trouble is
the strike of the switchmen in the
Rock Island yards here and at Sa-
wanna.
Railroad men coming in on the
Milwaukee report things at a stand
still all along the line. although pas
senger trains are still running on
time. Yardmasters are doing what
switching there is to be done. and
freight and yard business is COM
pletely tied up.
The e., L. & o.
The c.. Il. & @. is still running all
its trains in and out of Rock Island
on time, and as yet there is no dem
onstration of sympathy, if there is
any, with the strikers.
The Il. L. &P.
All regular trains are moving on
the Il. |. d F., but business is very
quiet.
Rock Island and Davenport.
The Davenport Democrat in its ac-
count of.the strike yesterday. made
the absurd assertion that Rock Island
people were going over there to learn
from it the news of the strike. In
the first place, THE ARGUS report of
last evening. both local and tele-
graphic, OF the situation. was as COM
plete as it could be. and further than
this, rs far rs the status of affairs
here are concerned, Davenport people
would he much more apt to come to
Rock Island to ascertain any infor-
nation, as the great lines of the west
center here and not in Davenport, as
could be no more clearly demon
strated than in the fact that all the
freight and mail that Davenport re-
ccived yesterday was through Rock
Island, where it was distributed on
arrival and sent across the bridges
in wagons. When it comes to
showdown, Davenport would occupy
a very obscure corner of the globe
were it not opposite the city of Rock
Island and having communication
with it.
The Board of Education.
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