The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-11
END OF STRIKE IN SIGHT
sWITCHMEN MAT BE BACK AT
 WORK TONIGHT.

Men Hope National Official Can Per- suade Railroad to Take Them Back Val Fitzpatrick on His Way to This
 City--Anotber Meeting for This Morn
 ing--Sfrikers Deny Violence Story Many Strike Breakers at Work. l According to present indications the strike of switohmen in the local yards will be over in the nayl twenty hours. Second Vice President Val Fitzpatrick of the brotherhood is on his way to this city, and the men ex- pect that he will be able to influence the railroad officials to take them back. A meeting of the strikers has been called for this morning at 9 o'clock in i I. Q. 0. F. hall ,8
 When George J, Henry of the general grievance committee was asked if he thought the strike would last twenty four hours longer said that he did not care to be interviewed. His manner, however, showed that he thought so.
 The story published ill one of the pa- pers that one of the strikers threw q stone at some one on Berry street bridge who had spit upon him is pro- nounced to ibe wholly erroneous by sev- eral of the strikers. wh0 say that the facts are that some children on the bridge spat off the bridge apparently upon one of the strike breakers, who thereupon seizing stone threw 1t at the offender. The strikers said they did not resort to unlawful measures, but expected to win the strike as law abiding men.
 As to the assertion that the men struck without authority, and without having submitted their claims to the official leaders, spokesmen of the strik- CTS said that they submitted their grievances two or three weeks ago to one of the presidents of their union when he made an address to them at Music hall, and that he took note of their claims and said that he would have the case considered. In view of that the men said they thought they had done all that was necessary to square themselves with their leaders. They said the railroad officials had re- fused eHnphatically to recede from the stand they had taken, and now it was up to their leaders to plead their cause, as the railroad officials would not con- sider the case with the strikers any further.
 About thirty of the strike breakers who work in the day time are quarter ed nights In car near the Union de- pot, which is fitted up for them with sleeping and other accommodations. 1 As far as can be learned there will be no sympathetic strike of the switch men at other places along the railroad, especially as that in Bridgeport Thurs day lasted only few hours, the men being ordered back to work by George j. Henry, of the general grievance com mittee of the brotherhood
 The railroad has filled the places of sixty strikers with men brought here from other points, and these yard men are now moving fair amount of freight, two engines being employed in the Water street and one in the Cedar Hill yards. More men arrived for the night shift and it is thought likely that freight trains will begin to run on sche- dule before many hours Cars to be used for sleeping quarters by the new men are being fitted upin the yards, and all the railroad police officers are being concentrated here as a guard to the strike breakers
 The meeting of the strikers yesterday morning as noted above produced no result It was understood that Gener- al Manager Higgins has refused to sec the men, or a committee, until the strike is recognized as a fair one by | T9oiJ T