The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-04-30
A GREAT STRIKE IMMINENT
EMPLOYES MAY TIE UP THE NEW
 YORK CENTRAL.
Unless Their Demamds Are Accetied by P. m. To-day All the Men VIII bo Called Out-Leaders Claim 1t VIII be the Largest Strike in the History of Railroads fin the East.

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 l Buffalo, April 29.-The striking ems ployes of the New York Central have given the company until D. m. to-mor- row to agree to their demands. If ths concessions are not made by that time it is the intention of the strike leaders to extend the strike and they predict that 1t will be the largest in the history of railroads of the east. They claim that all they have to do is to remove the restraint under which they have been holding their men and that it will then run through the entire system of the state and will cripple nearly every road entering Buffalo. A strike leader said tonight that he and his fellow strikers had arranged their plans SO nicely that within twenty-four hours af- ter o'clock tomorrow nine thousand men would join the ranks of the strik- CTS.
 The New York Central strikers say they have induced others to delay action pending reply from the officials of the company.
 The members of the board of media tion and arbitration conceded to-day that the situation was grave and they did not disguise their belief that great railroad strike is imminent.
 After talking with some of the rail- road officials Superintendent of Police Bull consulted with Mayor Diehl and Commissioner Cooper and then promul- gated significant order to the force, which says in part: "The strike among certain employees of two railroads and reports that the strike will become gen- eral presents an emergency that re- quires the entire police force to be plac- ed on duty, prepared to promptly re- spond to any demand for the careful protection of life and property. The en- tire force will go on duty at midnight Sunday, April 29, and work in two pla- toons until further orders"
 An important conference was held at the Hotel Iroquois this afternoon be- tween Commissioners Delehanty and Webster of the state board of media tion and arbitration and the colnmittee of the strikers, headed by Chairman A. M. Fish. At the request of the arbitra- tors the rock-bottom terms which the pen are willing to accept from the New York Central were presented, They are identical with the original demand, iri- c1uding a general increase in wages and the Unemployment of the old union men who were discharged.
 In response to the question as to whether a suggestion to compromise would be acceptable the reply was a prompt negative and that there would be no settlement until the roads agreed } to uniform scale of wages. Commis- sioner Delehanty urged that this plan be abandoned until after an effort had been made to adjust difficulties with the New York Central. To this the ex- ecutive committee agreed and it was arranged that Commissioner Delehanty start for New York at once in order to confer with Superintendent of Motive Power White of the New York Central.
 Tonight two hundred New York Gen. tra freight house employees announced that they would join the strikers to- morrow Fifteen car cleaners quit work tonight The other additions to the strikers ranks tonight include two hundred employees of the Delaware.y Lackawanna and Western and one hun-4 dred freight handlers of the Western New York railroad.