The morning call., 1894-04-29
NOT A TRAIN.
Strike on the Great
Northern.
1T Is NOW COMPLETE
Jim Hills Road Is Tied
Up at Last.
BUT EVERYTHING IS QUIET.
The Men Absolutely Block All
His Plans.
BUT EVERYTHING is QUIET.
NO CREWS ARE TO BE OBTAINED.
The Fight Is Now On in Earnest and
Both Sides Are Determined
They Will Win.

ST. PAUL, April 25.-No trains moved on
the Great Northern to-day. The tie-up Of
4405 miles of track in half a dozen States is
complete. The roads in this city using the
Great Northern tracks for terminals are
allowed to switch with their own train
crews. No regular switchmen are at work.
The men avow they will do no violence
and do all in their power to keep others
from injuring the company's property.
The Brotherhood men apparently have
not Joined the strike actually further
than refuse to work with other switchmen.
President Hill claims to have plenty or
men ready to work. He said today he
will make no movement until he is ready
to start train through to the coast. He
to-day received telegram FROM Superln-
tendent j. d. Farrell of Spokane. which
says: "All the engineers. fremen, conduc-
tors and brakemen here are ready to work
when you call on them"
Engines for the branch-line trains were
standing in the depot yards to-day waiting
for trains to be backed down. They are
manned by old engineers and fremen.
The cars are not there because there is no.
body to handle the swith engines.
A general freight tie-up is ons of the
immediate prospects of the strike. The
Great Northern, the Union Depot Com
pany, the Milwaukee and the Great West
ern own most of the yard trackage in st.
Paul. The Great Northern switchmen re-
fuse to turn a switch in the yards, and the
Omaha and Burlington freight trains are
stalled in the yards here. The Northern
Pacific, in connection with the Minneapo-
lis and ST. Louis, owns its own lines be-
tween St. Paul and Minneapolis, and
should not be put to Sc erions inconvenience.
With the exception of these roads and the
Milwaukee and Great Western the problem
of moving freight is serious one.
Tonight at 10: 80 O'Clock Colonel Sway
ner received call from Marshal Cronin
of North Dakota for assistance OF troops,
and four regiments of the First Battalion
of the Third Infantry. under command of
Major Patterson. have been ordered to
start for Grand Forks, n. Dak.. at o'clock
in the morning.
MINNEAPoLIs. April 2S.-The track is
torn up two miles east of Devils Lake,
n. OAK. and the Grand Forks train is held
there. The Brotherhood men at Devils
Lake are waiting to hear from the judges
before going out at present they will
handle nothing but mail tIains.
A Devil's Lake special says the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers aud Fire
men had q meeting and resolved TO notify
the Barnesville and Minot lodges that
they would not handle anything but mail
cars and were awaiting their arrival in
this city before going out entirely.
WEST SUPERIOR. Wis, April 2S.-Em-
ployes in Eastern Minnesota have gone
out in sympathy with the Great North srn
strikers.
ST. CLOUD. Minn., April 2S.-Another
attempt to send freight west has proved
fruitless.
CHICAGO. April 2S.-The Knights of
Labor will take hand in the Great North
ern strike. The general executive board
to-day ordered the men out, and Grand
Master Workman Sovereign left for ST.
Paul tonight to give his personal super
vision to the initiation of the Knights part
in the general strike.
The order for the strike announces that
in the opinion of the board the cause of
the American Railway Union is justly en-
titled to the support OF the Knights of
Labor. Before leaving for st. Paul this
evening Mr.. Sovereign said:
"We are going to fight to the end. The
existence of organized labor along the line
of the Great Northern is at stake. 1t has
become necessary for all labor orga MIA
tions to join in with the railway union. L
shall 20 to ST. Paul and Duluth and per-
sonally see that our order is obeyed and
arrange for the care of the men.
II do not know how many men we have
In the employ Of the company. Our as
sembles include not only men ib the ope-
railing departments, but in the offices and
shops of the company. They are scattered
all along the 1000 miles of road.
SEATTLE, April 2S.-The break in tile
Great Northern strike in the coast lines,
fer which the local officials had arranged,
did not take place to-day in consequence
Of the refusal of the fremen to 90 out.
One cause of the weakening of the train
men and engineers was the fact that they
have not yet received their March pay and
are beginning to get hard up.
The pay checks are sent from st. Paul
to arrive on every division on the 18th. and
as the strike began ON the 18th the paycar
is supposed to be tied up at some point
east. The strikers accuse the company OF
holdi3g back March pay in order to force
them to yield. and it was the prospect of
getting their pay that largely caused the
weaken ing