| Show CONFINED TO THE burlington t YESTERDAY afternoon the dispatches announced that the great railroad strike which lor for a time seemed likely to involve all roads handling burlington freight would be confined to td that road read but bat that the fight la that corporation would be redoubled this gano announcement will greatly relieve public anxiety as the business interests of the entire union were imperiled by the attitude of the organizations of railroad employed emp loyes the report of the house heuse committee on commerce favoring a congressional investigation of the burlington strike and declaring that hat t the locomotive engineers now in the employ of that anat company in lieu of the strikers were incompetent and aad in inconsequence consequence and property were being endangered which was rendered on tuesday probably led the organizations of railroad men to believe behave tuat that the burlington would be brought to terms without a strike on the roads doing au business siness with it legislation to prevent the employment of incompetent locomotive engineers should certainly be adopted uy by co congress ess it existing laws do not cover the gr ground 0 land any steps which the national ti na I 1 legislature egi slature may take in this direction will directly or indirectly at af lord ford support to the brotherhood of locomotive engineers as that body bedy embraces a large majority in fact nearly all of the competent compete pt craf craftsmen asme a in the country when a body of men of the well known intelligence and conservative tendencies of the brotherhood engage in such a struggle as is going OR oa be kneen t een it and the bur anji ton one of the most powerful powers III and wealthy railroad corporations in the continent it may with safety be concluded that some right or principle lile which the brotherhood regards as vital to te its interests is at stake and it will be unsafe to charge anat organic won with all the blame for what the p public ablia may suffer in consequence of the strike on the other hand the awin caples of law relating to common carriers demand that the public shall not be suddenly and without notice deprived of transportation facilities to which it has been accustomed and on the perpetuation of which vast and ramified interests depend A strike of railroad operatives involves questions ot of law and public rights and policy which no other kind ot of a strike does and how to prevent such an occurrence without abridging 9 the personal liberty of employed emp loyes is tho the problem of statesmanship the solution of which it Is proposed that con congress gres shall undertake der take it now appears likely that the th house eHouse of representatives will cause to be appointed a committee of its members for the purpose of a thorough investigation of the matter and especially of its legal phases relative to the financial aspects of the strike on the burlington we append the following remarks from the omaha world five weeks of the burlington strike have u now ow passed the company is entitled to all the glory of a long vigorous fight if there be any glory in it but is io must also bear the lull blame for the vast damage which the whole northwest lias has sustained it provoked the fight it refused to compromise it has stubbornly pursued its course regardless of the interests ol of the north west or of its patrons or the shippers along the line of toe the road it cold coald have compromised honorably and fairly at any time the engineers repeatedly peat edly made offers and advances but manai manager er sto stone e has brought his bis fist down downard aud emphasized his bis refusal to negotiate by an oath and in the same bluer bitter stubborn and arrogant spirit the fight has been prolonged by the burlington the company has sustained a direct money loss of about it has inflicted a loss on toe me northwest amounting to anany millions of dollars tais has tallen fallen most severely on the merchants along its line who have been its regular patrons it has besides permanently lost the patronage ot of merchants who have begun to ship over other lines and likely to change back without cause after the trouble is over ever in return for all these immense losses on itself and others what whal has the burlington gained or what at most can it gain it successful it will save in engineers wages perhaps a year at this rate it would take ten years to compensate for losses to date if the road could tomorrow resume completely the immense business which it was doing before the trouble began |
