The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-04-28

The Great Northern Iied Up on Every
Eastern Branch.

Eastern
Special plsnatch TO the Stani1rl
GREAT FALLS, April 27.-Thc following
dispatch was received here this morning:
Sr, PArI, April =, 5:i5 m.
To W. l. Rifcr Grcdi Fdl,.
The strike has been declared at every point
on tho system and Is now IN inll force. can
out every man In the service. luuse who are
not with Us arc against us. We viii win.
EUGENE '. DEBs.
Mr.. Rlker adds that he has Information
that the employees OH the Eastern MInne-
sofa, Duluth, South Shore q Winnipeg,
Sioux City & Northern aud the Willmar a
Sioux Falls branches and the leased lines
of the Great Northern have also joined tho
strike.
In an address issued tonight Cha rman
Riker declared the men firm NJ this point
and said they would not recede one iota
from the demands made for a restoration
Of the wage schedule existing prior to
Aug. I, 1898. He added that II Mr.. Hill
made any attempt to import labor into
Montana il would hasten the tie-up of
every trunk line west of tho Mississippi
river. including large portion OF the
Southern Pacific system, where the union
alone has a membership Of 700. Con-
tinuing, lie said it was not tho wish or de-
sire of the A. II. L. to cmbarrass other
roads. as the growth of tho strike might
result in actual suffering, If not starya-
tion, but the union had taken it's stand
and "would not deviate from II even II il
became necessary to stop the wheels OF
every railroad. not under the direct con-
troll of tho government, IN the United
| States.'
Mr. Riker also stated that l.. Il. Smith
was en- route TO Great Falls from Helena,
with warrants for the arrest of the other
leaders OF the strike.
Questioned by a STANDARD reporter re-
garding the probable arrest Of men IA this
city, Superintendent Currier sad that no
warrants had been issued and that tho
story was fake.
In the hotel lobbics and on the streets
the people are beginning TO discuss the
methods to be utilized in the transporta-
ton of merchandise should the present
tie-up continue any length OF time. Those
| discussing the matter say that the first
| natural resource to which the pco.
ple look Is the Great Falls a. Canada
railway in connection with the Canadian
Pacific and 500 line, making route by
rail via Lethbrdgc, Regina and Mime
npolis. These roads will not give a
through rate. The latest quotations on
this route are: First class. SI3i: second,
S2.sl; third. S2.23j; fourth, Sl.Gs; lfth, car
load. Sl.5l. Notwithstanding this high
rate. winch consists of the various local
rates added. soue goods have been or
dered over II and Deputy Custom House
officer Ringwald is Oh the way to Leth.
bridge 10 inspect u car load OF sugar al
that point consigned to Great Falls mer'
chants.
The second method is To bring the goods
from Helena 10y wagon. This involves an
additional cost OF two cents a pound aud
has already been used to some extent.
The third method has not yet been tried
but IL the strike continues 1t may be
brought into effect and some OF the busF
ness men are already making inquiries n,
to its feasibility. This is TO bring good.
up the Missouri by steamboat to the head
of navigation, the mouth OF Belt creek. /,
miles from Great Falls. II is urged that
steamer could be brought from BIsmarcs
or Sioux City without much difficulty, aut
the freight rates need not be very exor
bitant to make the trip paying one.