Show t THE Q CAR BOYCOTT The Burlington Continues Its Aggressive Policy ST PAUL LAYS OFF 5000 MEN riio Ultimatum of the St Paul Company Com-pany The hcrikent Kanaaa CityGeneral Notes The Strike CHICAGO April 2The Burlington continues its aggressive policy and about 9 oclock notified the police that it was going to deliver a train of freight to the Central Railway A detail of officers offi-cers was sent to the Michigan Central yards and soon after the Burlington bristling with Pinkerton detectives and various railway officials pulled in Beyond Be-yond the usual curses and cries of I nabs I thntinvariably greet Q trains now adays there was no hostile demonstration de-monstration The oars were de ivered ii nit Mirtuvan Central The Q1 engine en-gine the Pinkertons and olicials quickly disappeared from the scene As soon as Central they nod gone the Michigan switchmen notified t yardmas er that tney would not touch tho Q cars A strike on this road will therefore be precipitated whenever an order is given to move the car now in the yard It is tb uuht that this order is sure to u come during the morning The Burlington Bur-lington also announced that they had 400 cats at Enulewo > dt which they intended in-tended to oilor ttO Lake Shore Company Com-pany during the day Several switchmen switch-men on that lire declared to a reporter that they would not handle them We shall mast certainly handle all freight delivered to us said Mackay general freight ngnt of the Michigan Central when asked what they intended to do with Q cars Our e neral super nendent arrived here from Detroit to day Just what the plans are I do not know but you can rest assured that we will handle those cars if I have to go down there Rtid help myself We propose to run this road aud if our present employees refuse to carry out any of our rrders we will discharge them and Gil their places do far I have not heard that they I have refused to obey orders MILWAUKEE April 2 Manager Miller said that tit Paul had laid ott fully 5000 yard and switchmen along its system until the present trouble blows over The order affects about 800 men in the yards and tbe general offices in this city cityUHIOUJO April 2Unle St Paul switchmen are at work at her posts tomorrow to-morrow morning ready for work they can never obtain employment on the road aiim This was the ultimatum of the officials this morning At a meat lUg of the strikers today at which there were some 200 tho res jived to stand to tne positim already taKtn in regard to thel cars P urteon switch tnginoa were working in the St Paul yards this morning and the superintendent said ue had enough crews to man half a dozen if they were nel ded All was quiet at the yards The suburban service of tho St Paul was resumed this morning all trains arriving nearly on time arid manne 1 mostly by their own crews A number of old passenger engineers en-gineers have decided not to join the strikers and will sticK to their engines KANSAS CITY April 2A boycott on Burlington freight went into effect in riip jtn1i bore promptly at noon A Fort Scott switch engine had jest uacKeu up to some Burlington cars but when 12 oclock struck the men left the cab and refused to haul it The engine was soon uncoupled and the freight left standing |