Show THE boycott RAISED ati of he of EE aloyes april 4 tho final result of the meeting of employed emp loyes of the various roads in this city which began yesterday afternoon and lasted until a late hour lat night is announced this morning in a declaration that the boycott of the Q cars has been permanently raised and that henceforth the contest will bo confined strictly to tho Q system all except tho Q were to atop forthwith and all those which wore imminent were to bo averted the business of chicago is to bo restored and maintained by tho strikers with strict decorum other roads were absolved from the requirement of neutrality and violence is to be discountenanced according to tho well known policy of the brotherhood of locomotive en giniere gine ere tho arrangement agreed upon it is stated is directly duo to the exertions of chief arthur of alio brotherhood 0 engineers grand master sargent of monaghan of the switchmen association cia tion and mark cravi ford alio also represent the switchmen the final decision was reached by a mass meeting held with closed doors last evening and which was addressed by general manager jeffrey of the illinois central fifteen hundred railway employed emp loyes were pros ont at the meeting representing the elements which had previously been at times antagonistic grand master sargent of tho fir emens jepther Jrp ther hood was tho first speaker jie stated that ho came not only as a representative of tho firemen but also to voice the views of chief arthur of the en inders i the strike on tho burling cn was a juat cause and they had overy honorable means to treat company with such a re sord behind them it would not be tho strikers to stand by ind see helpless people suffer from ho bass practices of the company sargent urged therefore that the boycott be raised and the Q deprived of its most dangerous weapon manager jeffrey of the illinois central told the men of the disasters that would follow a general tio up and appealed to shield their fellows from such an infliction he his company would not consent 0 a general blacklisting of burlington strikers by railroads and he would ase his influence with managers of railroads toward the samo result grand master monaghan of the switch mens association emphasized the points of the two preceding speakers so well that the boycott was arod raised and the meeting decided to redouble the fight against iho burlington everybody connected with the system who could be called out would bo and one embarrassment ras after another was t be enforced committees were sent out at once to visit tho officials of different roads and later reported that all lines had accepted by overwhelming the burlington with business the engineers argue that the fact will soon demonstrated that it is by no means prepared to handle it with the new hands now in its employ the plea of tho burlington that the places of strikers have all been filled and consequently that it has nothing to arbitrate the engineers think will be demolished and the company bo compelled to attribute the question at issue when tho appointed time came this morning for a cessation of the strike on alio st paul all hands firemen engineers and switchmen presented themselves for duty and the usual course of things so far as the milwaukee company is con corned was resumed at once at the fort wayno yards there was a hitch and the strike on that road continued the engineers and firemen were ready to carry out the understanding but the switchmen were obdurate at 9 however everything was satisfactorily arranged and the burlington boycott was apparently everywhere at an end MILWAUKEE april 4 general manager miller of the st paul road said this morning that he would issue an order immediately canceling his order of last monday to days order will go into effect on monday nest the order rescinded was that reducing the force of the road one third it throw persons out of employment by the new order all departments will be reorganized on monday nest with full forces |