Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-06
ROAD TIED UP COMPLETELY
Operators and Dispatchers Appear to Be
in Control at Present
CANADIAN PACIFIC IN A BAD WAY
Hardly n wheel Turning on the En-
tire system and strikers Feel
Certain of Winning
Victory.

PEORIA, Oct. 81. h, T. Austen, grand
secretary Of the order Of Railway Teleg-
raphers, has received dispatches from Mon
treal showing that the tie-up on the Cana
dian Pacific is complete and nothing is
moving except a few passenger trains. Sat
urday night the dispatchers at Smith Falls
the only ones who had remained at work,
and who had charge of 33S miles of road
went out. The telegraphers, MIR. Austen $
dispatch says stand firm and seem to have
the sympathy of the public all along the
line and at many places objection is made
to any one else attempting to perform tele-
graphic duties The strikers. it is stated,
are cheerful and sangune of success all
over the system. Employees in the train
service have been restrained with great
difficulty from taking part In the strike,
and this is the reason the chiefs of their
orders have gone to Montreal. Committees
OF engineers. firemen, conductors and brake
men on tie west end have notified the
officials that they will not risk their lives
on orders given by inexperienced men and
handled by inexperienced telegraphers.
1t is reported that the road is losing
$4,000 per day, that cattle are starving in
cars, and that goods from China and Japan
are lying at Vancouver island awaiting ship
mont. Ships that have been lying in port
for more than week awaiting cattle have
been ballasted preparatory TO sailing for
England without a cargo
The situation for the Canadian Pacific is
pronounced very critical owing to the fact
that navigation closes in about thirty days
and the great crops at the northwest re-
main unmovel. Committees of the con-
ductors, engineers, fremen and brakemen
have called on the management and asked
for speedy settlement of the trouble.
NOtWitlSt9nUinp pa
ciflc claims to be able to equip the system
with telegraphers, its efforts to secure men
in different cities at advanced salaries and
FREQ transportation have not met with sue
cess. Advices have been received from
New York Chicago and other cities that
commercial and other telegraphers have re-
fused to go to Canada and work in place Of
the strikers. The road is advertising for
telegraphers in the United States, copy of
one advertisement having been sent to the
headquarters of the order.
The latest advices this morning are that
the situation looks toward a favorable set
tlcment in a few days. 1t is not thought
likely that the management will throw any
obstacle In the way, because the members
of the other railroad organizations are
standing soidly behind the telegraphers and
are eager to go out in sympathy with them.
At the headquarters of the Order of Rail
way Telegraphers hundreds of letters are
received daily from members and non
members of the order expressing sympathy
with the strikers and Offering financial aid
if necessary.
WICHITA, Oct. 5.--The Wichita division
of the Order of Railway Telegraphers. one
OF the largest divisions Of the order in
America met tonight in special session and
voted funds to aid the Canadian operators
on strike
TORONTO, Ont. Oct 5.-The Canadian
Pacific officials declare the strike is nearly
at an end. The chief difficulty in the way
Of filling the vacant places with men is the
hostility of outsiders to the men replacing
the strikers. Between Montreal and To-
ronto seventy-fye special constables are dis
tributed TO protect the cumnnnv's new EN-.
poyes. Trains are moving on fairly good
tina today