St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-15

So far as could be ascertained yester-
day, there was but little change in the
Great Northern situation. General
Manager Case. when applied to for IN
formation, said that this matter had
been left i'll the hands of Vice President
Clough. A GLOBE reporter called upon
him, and the magnate made the follow
ing statements:
"rhe situation still remains un-
changed. Our trains from Minot TO
Spokane. and from Havre to Butte. on
the Butte line. are still held up. Our
information is general only. not definite.
As the telegraph operators have gone
ont, and as our wires are the only ones
in that section. we cannot get certain
information. a. the strikers are in con-
troll of the wires. What infOrrna-
ton we get is in the form
of rumors that reach other telegraph
points and from there come here. SO
far as can be learned, the strike seems
to be confined TO the rraiumen and tele-
graph operators. AS yet the company
is doing nothing but endeayoring to ac-
cumulate all the information possible.
We are trying 10 get at the situation
find The disease and then prescribe the
remedy. First, we must ascertain who
are engaged in the strike, what their
| grievances are. aud then apply the
| curative OF all these facts. definitely,
we are still in ignorance. So far as
ascertainable. we believe the strike is
! confined 10 very small proportion of
! the employees.
The desertion of the operators. of
| course. prevents direct communications
| that way, and the stopping OF the
| trains cuts of information by that
| source. East of Great Falls the portion
! or the system where the trouble chiefly
| exists, and where the trains nave been
stopped-we have been operating but
| two trains day. freight and a pas
| senCeT. We do not anticipate any seri-
! Gus difficulty east of Minot. excepting.
/ perhaps, in isolated cases, where uisaf-
| lection exists. This propensity of the
men to quarrel with their bread and
| butter is hard to understand. and | state.
again that believe the trouble is con-
! fined to but few. Our trains arriving
! here are all running on time today. from
those parts of the system where the
! principal traffic exists. The company is
| daily hoping to fully re-establlsh coui-
munications by its own wires and trains.
If it were otherwise we could more
speedily get at the bottom or this mat
ter. and should at once proceed to adj
! just the difficulty"
Yesterday the following official bull
letin was issued from Great Northern
| headquarters:
April II. 1S94-On the Montana and
kalispeil divisions of the Great North
| ern railway, and on the Montana Cen
tral railway all trains have been aban-
| doued by reason of a number of the
| men quitting work, the only notice be-
! ing received few hours before Such
| abandonment from party who is not
and has not been i'll the cOmpany's EN-
ploy, and without any complaint or no
| tice from the men. The main reason
given to the company for this action is a
claim and report widely circulated by
interested parties that all employees OIL
those lines are to be replaced by strange
men from the East. This report is and
was entirely untrue. and is made for
the purpose of intimidation and of mis-
representing the company to the men.
1t is the expectation and wish Of the
company that all employees will con-
tinue in the faithful discharge OF their
respective duties, and the company will
see that i'll all matters Of wages. promo
tions. etc.. Sueh faithful service will be
first considered. both as to rates of pay
and line of promotion. The company
is at ali times ready to hear and con-
slider any complaint made by the men in
its employ. JAMES j. HILL,
President.
c. ". CASE,
General Manager.
r. W. BRYAN.
General Superintendent.
j. .. PATTEE.
Superintendent Motive Power.
President Hill returned yesterday