New-York tribune., 1910-07-25
RAILWAY STRIKE STILL ON
Grand Trunk Officials Refuse to
Accept Arbitration.
TIME FOR MEDIATION PAST
Company's Reply to Minister
King-Trains Stalled at South
Bend-A Wreck.

Montreal, July e4.-The attempts OF Mac
kenzie King, Minister OF Labor, to erect d
settlement of the Grand Trunk strike nave
fallen through, at least for the present, the
Grand Trunk management taking the view
that the time for arbitration has passed,
and that all that the company requires III
order to resume the full operation OF the
road is the protection for its men 70 Whlch
il is legally entitled. The message con-
veying this information TO Mr. King was
sent tonight, and read as follows:
Your telegram of the sd received Whlle.
as you know. from the many comIeleI,cSi r;ita Io6i
place and from our offer repeated diLu
urged upon the committee, we were Qe-
existing trouble, time for such acuon has
now passed, and it is only necessary tlat
we should have the protection to whicn we
are entitled 70 enable us to resume the iuli
op7' 1''Oi' u '-- CHARLES NJ. HAYS
Coupled with this announcement Of the
company that the time has passed foT
arbitra ton comes the statement that on
Monday the shops of the entire system VIII
be reopened: that instructions will be issued
TO agents again TO accept freight; that way
freights will be put on, and that the mani
fest freight service will be increased
In addition, Il is announced by the Oh
Nciels that some of the former employees
who went out on Monday last are reporting
for work
The answer of Mr. Murdoch, Vice-presl-
dent Of the trainnens association, follows:
We are perfectly satisfied with the way
things are going, and If 1t IS 70 oe NJ u; n
to a finish / Go not know that l could sus-
sest an Improvement on existing conoltlons
from our point of view. As matters stano;
the travelling public Is PENS n ., laiIr9 m Te Tsa
report OF A Kennedy, of the Enslheers.
brotherhood. TO US is that only ~ per cen cen.
of the Grand Trunk engineers are on thelr
regular runs
Despite Mr.. Murdock's assurance, mis-
givings are beginning to develop among
the men who see the positions Whlch
they once held threatened by the railroad
This was shown at the meeting or the
men to-day, and the suggestion was plaln-
" made to the leaders that action was
necessary in order to hold the strikers TO-
gether.
Toronto. July 24-The claims OF the
Grand Trunk Railway that matters are
assuming better shape were borne out to-
dav bv the arrival and departure OF tour
freight trains from Toronto. Mr. Brown
lee. superintendent of transportation. SAID
tonight that the North Bay and COBALT
regular trains would be resumed to-rnor-
row and that the Buffalo Special would
run regularly from now on Crews have
been secured for all passenger, mixed and
way freight trains, and eight Of the lat
ter will start tomorrow from London,
Toronto, Stratford, Sarnia and Niagara
Falls.
Three or four through trains will also
leoye Sarnia. Three westbound freights
were sent our from Port Huron to-day, and
two eastbound and two westbound from
Battle Creek Everything is apparently
quiet at Brockville, the militia still holding
the station Three of the ringleaders Of the
rioting Of Friday night, two OF them strR-
ing trainnaen- have been renanded to jail
for a week.