Show l NOT JET I 5 SETTLED i j j t I ir The Great Strike on the II 11 1 Rio Grnde 11I I IIf f NOT A WHEEL IOYIM IfI If 1 I 1 I The Entire System Is Now Tied Up 1 SITUATION AT VARIOUS POINTS i A Conferenca Between Officers and Men t BeHeld Be-Held Today Denver Switchmen Not in apathy with the striker 1 DENVER Colo Oct 17 Special telegram tele-gram to Tnt HERALD The strike off S trainmen on the D R G railroad remains r f re-mains unsettled and there l no immediate i I l prospect of an agreement being reached I 1 The men remain at their headquarters at I Salida and refuse to come t Denver to i i confer with the officers of the road although i al-though a special car and free transports 1 tion were placed at the disposal of their j commIttee There is but little going on around the Rio Grande general offices in Denver today except a study of the situation on the second S sec-ond and third divisions aud Inquiries into tho condition on the remaining divisions one and lour Mr Jeffery LOOKS SERIOUS AND TROUBLED J but says nothing harsh against the men S who have gone out He does not even refer to them as strikers but still says I S that it is all the unfortunate outcome of action born in passion and taken without II t reflection as t the consequences and he I j believes that it will be settled amicably to I S all interested i reason be allowed to pro vail It Is not believed that I A GEXUEAL TIE UP t IS will result Indeed Presidant Jeffery expected I ex-pected to come to some sort of an agreement S agree-ment with the strikers today A grievance griev-ance committee was expected from Salida I at 10 am but the men would not coma t Denver and wired asking the president of the road to go to Sail and r confer with them on their own ground I i On receiving an invitation to come to Denver the chairman of the committee complained of having no S MEANS OP TRANSPORTATION Mr Jeffrey ordered a special train placed at the disposal of the committee to come from Salida to Denver and fixed a time for a meeting The offer was refused Up to 3 pI today nothing further had been done towards a meeting for a settlement settle-ment Chairman Coppelt of the board of directors arrived in the city over the RockS Rock-S Island at 103 pm accompanied by Charles C Beamsn one of the directors and who S is also the New York counsel for the board Mr Jeffrey met the directors and he and Mr Coppelt together occupied a carriage which was driven from the depot to the S Metropcle Mr Coppelt had 5O KNOWLEDGE OF THE STRIKE BTRK S save what lie had read in the Missouri River newspapers Among the switchmen in the Denver yards tho sympathy expressed ex-pressed by one or two does not seem to bo with the engineers The reason given was that Grand Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood Brother-hood of Locomotive Engineers did not helpS help-S out the switchmen Buffalo a few months j ago when be had an opportunity to do so I has been reported that the operators all over the line stood ready to S BELl OU THE STRIKERS In the Rio Grande telegraph office this was strenuously denied by an operator today to-day who said the report was a len le-n engineer who Is in the city from Division 4 was seen today When asked c regarding the rules of the brotherhood in relation to the strike he replied that he lad belonged t the order fourteen years S but that he had not attended any meetings for some time The brotherhood had regulations regu-lations S PROVIDING ron J BTRIKB The first thing In order was an investigation investi-gation through a grievance committee andS and-S as the last resort In case cf no settlementS settlement-S through the order of the grand chief of the Brotherhood who alone could order a S4 strike Whoa atked I tho strikers would get support from tho trainman on the firstS first-S end third division he replied that he thought not under pretest conditions icy 5 bo said the proceedings XJVI BEEN ILLEGAL Trainmaster Walker was seen by your i reporter and asked about the situation on the first division He did not admit that the situation looked serious in any way on i that division A bulletin was Issued by Superintendent Burns yetterdday morning authorizing all S persons holding tickets over the Rio Grande to points common to the Colorado Midland to go over that route but at 630 last night the following order from Superintendent r S Super-intendent Burns was bulletined L PUeBLO Colo Oot 1All concerned Please arrange to nave all passengers holding hold-ing tickets to points on the second division S that are common with the Colorado Midland Si Mid-land to Utah sad Pacific Coast peints sent via Colorado Springs and the Colorado va S Midland railrood conductors have been instructed in-structed tohonor Denver and Rio Grand tickets until further Botice As the Midland general offices are located t Colorado Springs nothing can b learned S from the general managers office regardIng L regard-Ing < iny inatructiouSithat may have been given the train crews on that ad Atc At-c the genual offlc no word bat been received S re-ceived from Superintendent Ridgway who was reported a trying make up several 44 train crews today FranS Putney chief clerk of the railway t maU vc was in consultation with Superintendent Sample thS afternoon relation to the transportation of I tho mal which is accumulating in largo quantities Mr Putney would not say what instructions he had received from the department at Washington regarding re-garding the matter There were fifteen loaded mail cars hung up on the Rio Grande between Denver and Ogden The officials have takenno action because they thought the strike would be settled today but they are in consultation this afternoon and will take steps for moving the mail The western west-ern through mall can be sent via Cheyenne Chey-enne if necessary The Rio Grande Western Is receiving usual and taking all business offered President Jeffrey Chairman Coppell and Director Beamin are consulting together this hlternoon Chtrrnan Coppell endorced President Jeffreys action The men have been ordered toreturn to work The trainmen and conductors will do this but the engineers en-gineers refuse The men of the first division say they will stand by the road and will not strike There must be a crisis today Either the matter will be settled or there will be a very bitter war i |