The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-14
Sixteen Hundred Between Larimore, n.
D., and Spokane, Wash, Idle, and
Others Threatening to Go Out.
DECISION BY JUDGE DUNDY
He Orders Union Pacific Receivers
to Restore Former Wages,
And Severely Scores Judge Caldwell for
the Latter's Recent ActiOn-Situa-
ton in the Coke Region.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, April 13.-The officials
of the Great Northern this afternoon made
the following statement to the Associated
Press: AT noon to-day strike of train
men and telegraph operators took place on
the western portions of the Great Northern
railway lines The latest advices received
at the company's headquarters seem to in
dictate that the number of men who have
gone out is not large. Some trains have
been temporarily suspended in the locality
of the strike. but the officers of the COM
pany do not anticipate any serious or pro-
longed trouble
A secret meeting at Labor Hall, tonight.
drew a large crowd. under the auspices Of
the local branch of the American Railway
Union, and at the close of an enthusiastic
meeting the chairman said to a reporters:
1.-The Great Northern tried to force a lock-
out on the Western division. and nothing
was left for the men to do but to go on
strike. 1t is certain that before this trouble
is over 80 per cent. of the men will go out
We met tonight to talk over the strike In
the west. We may conclude to go out at
this end within a day or two If matters
are not speedily adjusted there may be
general walkout. The men all feel aggrieved
and there is bound to be trouble"
A Helena (Mont) dispatch says: The
strike extends from Larimore, n. d. to
Spokane, and 1000 employees are now out,
two hundred OF that number being In this
city, The only trains that have left to-day
are two freights that left early In the day
before the strike was ordered. These will
be allowed TO go to their destination When
the mail train arrived at II % the express
and passenger cars were uncoupled, but
the mail car and engine were left ready to
proceed. At the end of fifteen minutes, no
orders having been received for the engine
and mail car to proceed, j. L. Dunn OF
Great Falls, the official representative OF
the American Railway Union, announced TO
the crowd that he wanted them to bear wit
ness that the men stood ready 10 proceed
but no orders had come from the company
to do so. He closed his brief speech by an
nouncing that the men were ready TO move
the mail car. He explained that the men
could, under their general orders run the
train through to Great Falls but for the
fact that they had received positive orders
from the superintendent that the train
should not leave the station.
Vice President Clough said tonight that
the first word received by the company was
in the shape of telegram signed by some
one named Striker announcing that the
men would go out at noon on the western
division. No demands had been received
from the men, and, judging by the results
were fairly well contented with affairs as
now existing. Over a month ago COM
mittee Of the engineers conferred with the
that when the earnings Of the company
reached a certain figure the old rates would
be restored. Colonel Clough says the pres
ent outbreak. limited as to territory and
representing the sentiment of but a small
section of two. classes of employees. was not
only unauthorized by the brotherhoods and
their chiefs but is deprecated by them.
j. Z. Wilson, of Lacrosse, Wis, grand
master OF the Brotherhood OF Railway
Switchmen, is in the. city, and said to
night that his visit had no connection with
the Great Northern affairs He said he
knew nothing whatever about the matter,
and did not believe that many employees
were out. THE strike 10 unauthorized" he
said, land IL anyone strikes without au-
thority. he does 1t at his own cost, and is
liable to be disciplined"
President Hill, of the Great Northern,
is at West Superior selecting docks for his
line of passenger steamers. and when ap-
preached by the correspondent said: "Tnc
reports are exaggerated. There are few
local disturbances along the line. but moth
ing to speak seriously off,
The only points thus far reporting the
strike are Helena and Great Falls Mont.
and Spokane, Wash. 1t was announced
from those points that the men did not in
tend to interfere with mail trains, and
some trains were reported as abandoned,
but 10 statement has yet been received as
To the number of men