Show THE I 1 I 1 in the great for M astery both MEN A D EMPLOYERS I 1 I 1 are apparently very coll eilent of I 1 I 1 1 NO EXISTS on the northwestern roads and therefore NO IS AN in that quat ter 1 I he turlington reported to be dotage almast its regulars Regu larl western ased press to fag STANDARD the 4 neb march b bubines Bu sines 0 n the burlington system in this mate wis 3 canerday all trains being run except through trains which have been delivered to the and TI iziver road by the chicago burlington quincy from tile cast firer complete train crows arrived I 1 rom the caa fri day night and were putto work 9 0 far all have given and B 31 officials say they are prepared to handle fast passengers and through ire lits as soon as the C V I 1 can semi them over their part of the aftem CHICAGO march 5 arthur tool a rest today to day it was the least busy day that he and ilia lieutenants have had since the burling tona quincy strike began XI were recuperating their c bergies for the meeting tomorrow to morrow which is to determine liet tier or not tile on ginders and firemen of the western and railroads w ill go on a strike among the first things said arthur to a reporter was you can deny officially that there was any secret meeting of the chair men of the committees held yesterday such sa described in a morning papers it is utterly false the fact that the northwestern Nort railroad stall holds to the classification system is well known but no meeting was held to discuss it 1 I have no means of knowing atiat other lines are giving the moral support if they are it is h violation of a solemn pledge from tile managers of other roads that laev would maintain a strict neutra liV I 1 giving a par MO ral support one Is g rv and 11 doing this would Yo norder a strike if a grievance of ahm in brought to my attention I 1 aiho d carefully look into it 8 it not probable bable that congress will be calle Iro on to investigate ilia strike congress will not be asketh to look into it by us there is no necessity for ai n investigation what we haa done has been done openly and been given to the pubic through the 11 press in your opinion could tile manage in ent of the burlington haye had iner cenary motives in permitting the strike for the purpose of depressing stocks and buying them in at low figures no I 1 think tile burlington mant age merit 1 I y not ineide nary h ey prof a to pay their men as much as th ei n e do and yet they will not do you believe that all of the m on sent forward for distribution on the burlington for the past three dats are bona fide engineers and firemen oh I 1 have heard am not going to follow the course of tile burlington and talk about hearsay ma but I 1 A ill say this I 1 know of my own knowledge that it is I 1 M isible for the road to az et competent engineer sto run timar alpar to come it cant make them from the stock they baye 11 on what do you baso the assor tion 1 I have it on statistics in my coq session showing that there arbnot idle competent locomotive engineers ir the country not counting of course tile arother hood inert on the burlington and you are confident of winning the fight it the men stand firm it is beyond question will CHICAGO march 6 there was little sunday work doing at the generl offices of the burlington co today president perkina general manag and general itano were 0 it for a few hours in the morning but left for their homes early they superintended super intended the die patching of about men said to be competent engineers to the west at 2 P rn this was the fourth batch ae tits d by the master mechanic and th 7 ere to be distributed over tile system the ammor that the strike might extend to the north western system on monday did not seem to ister fero with the business or pleasure of the officials of that r cad president is still in tile e as I 1 his residence echoed that he was not expected at home for a low days yet general manager whitmore was somewhere in iowa today to day and mr albert keep chairman of tile board of left for new york this ar hernoon ter noon at the of cices there aas no an evident of a it was baid tezro that while the northwestern had a asyet in of classification similar to that on the burlington the standards of th pay w ere higher by several degrees rr WILL naw YORI feb 5 represents ti ves of all the roads centering in the city were present at tod to d ys meeting of the brotherhood of engineers to take action in the burlington strike A lone set of resolutions A ere adopt ed in w ch the various railways posed to be secretly alling the MI lington were it N de that the engineers as an organ are justified in to extreme measures in over coming this outside interference it Ps mended that if tile aforesaid croul 0 Is not settled within a 0 all the brotherhood men upon connecting lines with th 3 system will on ia given date ignot sufficient to gain just and de manas that the entire organization throughout I 1 the united e tates canada and X u 1 00 will join with tu in a 1 lal versal denand for it was resolved that file 0 U 1 not be taken before the MR 1611 of I 1 1 month and the second not earlier than the so that the traveling and business busi nesa publio be in as little as it Is the unanimous sentiment of tile engineers present that each and ev e r d s of t 1 io brother hood t 1 pyoug lio ut the un f t 0 d S tates sh immediately call cial meetings to take action upon these to so 1 unions and notify the grand chief engineer of their becis I 1 on in the matter and also th R fie delegates hold themselves it rea d I 1 nesa to attend 0 special convent of the grand division of the brotherhood of engineers on short notice in consideration of the business in rests of the country we pin cerel y regret the necessity 01 resort I 1 g t these extreme measures and trust our friends will not be slow in placing the responsibility where it belongs upon the penurious and management of the chicago burlington rquincy system one of the delegates who was presen a fie meeting said the pre vallina sentiment it that the burlington trouble must be fough tout to a successful termination at ali hazards and although the engineers regret resorting to extreme measures they are determined to carry their point even if they have to stop tile turning of every wheel in the country 2 retaliation ETALIA TION wa pa march 5 A statement was prepared prep ired tonight to night by I 1 he national organized eastlen of me knights of labor and endorsed by the reading railroad employees executive board in which the old grounds of complaint against the B to therhon of engineers Is gone 0 ver the statement closes as fol again aws after passively defeat on these several occasions through the instrumentality of the brotherhood 1 forbearance at last ceased to bo a vi tue and tho knights adopted the law of retaliation and I 1 authoritatively state that they will not relinquish the position taken until bar arthur ra dresses the rong perpetrated aganet them b withdrawing every brother hood man on the reading system STILL THEY COME CHICAGO march 5 the report that the engineers and firemen of the chicago burlington northern are to strike IS ascertained to be true and at in midnight vice president G B harris of tile burlington northern was closed ith president parker of the quincy had been served with a notice tonight it wis the result of the meet ing of engineer engi and firemen held this afternoon after at lacrosse the notice was substantially that if the burlington northern did not cease interchanging in the traffic esith the burlington quincy before 7 P m 01 tile wen woula strike in a body CHICAGO zarch G the fact that d ele gaites front the Bra kemens brotherhood were present at the meeting of tile grievance today indicated one object of the conference all engineers who could be induced to talk said the bira kenien were ith the krikels krik ers obrien of the press committee when asked I 1 I 1 a strike was contemplated on th e road sald the utmost good Ivull sIX bet Weeta th n men on that road not been ditcu ze J jimr N A division matter it Is the intention of the engineers he said to confine tile strike it possible to the barling to n P s OLD 64 NN h bat about the strike on the darlington northern tile grievance committee road replied obrien has that th ey have examined into the matter in find that no devance i evance ex ista there officials of the bullinton Bur linton and northern have undertaken t be perfectly neutral ju the matter gent rat passenger agent morton speaking forthe company this afternoon said he was of the opinion the ba ck bone of the strike was bro ken we are a number of passenger trains said he to accommodate all business and conr frei glit has no ar I 1 assume d I 1 its nominal cond giorl A VO t avo taken all engineers and firemen A a can handle and have instructed our eastern agents nut to sund us any wore men unless they happen to be thoroughly competent engineers in the event of a strike on the burlington and 0 O them road that company would at I 1 y take the men we cannot use our selves about 4 this afternoon general manager harris of the C B northern called at chief arthurs mr harris I 1 manager of the road on adlich tile was ordered to occur at 7 this even ing the road extends from sava nna ills to minneapolis minn chief arth u r C ame from a corn matteo meeting to meet harris nar harris requested arthurs a 8 albance al tAnce in eatn er tn g the ned strike to this mr arthur re pl i e it that he had not been conill d by the men about striking and therefore if they struck it was heir own fight lie could not interi fere either for or against either ride this made it necessary for bar ilar AS I 1 0 discuss tile differences with his own mi an tho arieva nee comm attee of the road was called in from a general in eating and a talk was bad an houe discussion resulted in an ordea to the men lot to strike ani the whole inetter is held in abeyance until the chAi of the can reach horne and have a talk PA 5 A union meeting of seven lodges of the brotherhood of locomotive of mas m as held 6 night ap nd of the strike in the west ana enthusiastic and confidence was expressed in its nit mAte suCcess Resolutions adopt ed warmly championing tile cause of the striking blathers br athers and pledging their support tile of order ina all tile of the brotherhood now in tile service of the read ing company to on ewas uni V I 1 atno official action wag taken republican victory maine march 5 char man manley of the republican at aitto committee today to day bent the following helel ram to lion whitelaw I 1 augusta mun pal election were heij today to day in th cities of gardinier Gard itier bath rockland It riland leaston LeM ston an burn saco and ellsworth givin majority for cans i n every city redeeming 1118 word and low apton the home of seni acors I 1 late anti fra e it Is nit ed an tri empl i maine reaud I 1 abc atc free I 1 r ado and emphasizes its I 1 n of the 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