Show threatened EXTENSION OF THU RIKE s dispatches indicate the probability of the strike of the engineers and firemen of the C B Q railway assuming gigantic proportions before it terminates it if the professions of active sympathy of the employed emp loyes ol of other roads for the strikers should tike take shape the trouble may extend to the greater portion of the system of the whole country the workmen appear to feel according to their expressions that a failure on the part of the 0 B Q men to bring the company to terms would be disastrous to the whole fraternity tern ity on account of what they esteem to be the certainty of other corporations taking advantage of the defeat to reduce labor remuneration the P position position of the brotherhood seems to be now that strikes are to be ordered on all systems whose corporations give any assistance to the C B Q by handling the aie freight of the letter latter or otherwise favoring it quite a number of lines nave deter lined to do this the probability is that thai the threatened consequential strikes will soon be inaugurated it so the west will be affected to a large extent as the D R G and UP roads may possibly participate in this latest latent struggle between capital and labor the consequences that would result to the bp business ainess of the country from an extensive widening of the area of the conflict could not be estimated the losses it would entail would be too enormous for present approximate computation the inconvenience to chica the railroads would be put would be as nothing nettling com compared paLed to the effiew upon the avenues of trao e watell could by that means be blocked to an unparalleled degree yet the lue position ui 01 the me roads would be terribly embarrass ing the incidents cunn eced with the initial lines where the strike began are peculiar pt culiar the hitts to which the management is forced reed into being more or less bess desperate notwithstanding the bulletins indulged in A re recourse courso to LO a training school expedient is 19 unique but it is dia fitful that competent engineers can be made in a few days day a we have no ao such idea and train men are confident thit that the process is id an one the face of a pasy eager train being run on the road by a oae aae ey cy d engineer is rather suggestive it is an expedient of salet and therefore there questionable question aole propriety not withstand gitig the ine under which the road or roads may be placed it we were to venture an ion as to co tae final floal isue is ue lue of ane strike it would be to toe effect that tile the corporations po rations will triumph except an ele ment should be resorted to would b greatly to be deplored that ele went ment is force without it the corporations save have th atu advant advantage ago rhey hav the sinews of war tue the means ot ol con ducting it t tauy tacy nave have no starving and children to urge ure nem tu to arr ader and when that inducement to capitulate exists it is one ol 01 berest rest potency poi ency appealing to the teu tell derest and most vulnerable aUie portion of mens natures it if the corporations cai ca manage to go aloud along oven even in slip shape and can guage the time it takes a large budy body ot of men who generally live froni from hand to mouth to exhaust every ever available resource for the usten nce of themselves aid tho those ae dependent upon them they can tell just about to the same extent when there will be a surrender of the strikers it would come to that or desperation and it could be horrible all around if the latter consequence should result it would woul dinean mean bloodshed and destruction in victory tor for the strikers the corporations po rations see an increase of power for the employed emp loye in defeat for that side they see a red letter day for the capi calist aliat the workmen would then be more largely than ever under the dictum of if corporations which would re sult alt to in semi enslavement for th the masses and a powerful temptation to the latter to rise against again it their misters masters and overwhelm them em with wit 11 the power of force I 1 these struggles are jeopardizing the safety of the national commonwealth commons commo nw aith |