Show ihei STRIKE S I 1 tile badners still ill 0 trouble with tile I 1 I 1 BOSSES workmen trying to effect a compromise THE BELT LINE INVOLVED and tile trouble spreading to other lines NO IQ cara AIRE fall particulars of the critical situation how commerce is impeded western asad praia ta tax the strikes chicago april I 1 the reported ordering of a strike in chicago on tile lake shore panhandle alton and santa fe roads late saturday nig wa 1 proves to have been erroneous 0 such action was decided on the g of the st paul ers w aa held at night at which an answer is said to have been received fro in ij eral miller to their i I 1 saying they might return to work if they chose without handling Q freight if they would allow IQ engines to come into the bards and do work of this was rethe ted by the strikers and no IQ made tile meeting was very disorderly ariew feature was developed that bids fair to split up tile engineers and bremen into two factions the refus al of jhb pam leng r crews to quit ex n tile evanston line caused the a the switch engineers accused the pa casenger men of bad faith and demanded that their intentions A pas engineer made a i rech saying hu refuse to join t air ke and that lie F for a number of other 11 wa as saul tel and received a severe beating before his friends could rescue him TUE BELT LINE I 1 april 1 the prospect of an immediate tie up of the belt line added a graver a hect to the railroad situation this evening than at any time sinto the commencement 0 tile burlington strike every railroad entering chicago depends St wholly upon the belt line as a means py the lilt rc harge of freis dit Is to be conductor od u ith any other road practice tica ly every rai road track stretching from chicago is intersected bir tile bhelt the employees of tile latter line have all along been among tile staunchest allies of the brother hood chile the management of tile belt company has ap patently sought as far as foible po ible to maintain maint aih a tion of so called neutrality the now face was put oil the affairs when some time yesterday prest Porte the eastern illinois road which holds controlling interest in tile belt ii n a sent a strongly worded letter to the management of the belt I 1 ina denland rig that it transfer cars for every raili road and individual in the same manner and that any and all employees who do not choose to do their duty be dismissed today to day a meeting of the belt line employees was hold the N hole sub act was earnestly do bated it reported this evening that the belt men decided to stand by their guns and see hether the company would discharge them the bullinton Bur linton road to clay did not attempt to do adv switching in their freight yards the st paul people however howe vei made the most ions efforts to keep things moving and as a result it is probable the strike on tile st calil will culminate tomorrow to morrow in a renewal of the panhandle men A train was put in readiness so that tomorrow to morrow an attempt can be made to transfer st ra ul frei Alit to that road and as the panhandle switchmen switch me are pledged to support the st paul men trouble Is expected the st paul road got out four freight trains and the suburban passenger service was in a much better chanon saturday at a of the st strikers a majority of the ceif are mid to have favored a return to work on the terms offered by general manager miller while the switchmen and brakesman brak esmen insisted on stay inglut no conclusion was reached ril 2 an effort toward a com promise 0 the strike on tile C B Q was thado this evening bif the brotherhood of engineers and ira men A card embodying a concise statement of the situation tho mens a standpoint tand point but giving no new faciso was issued by them A NEW DEMAND KANSAS CI T Y april I 1 the switch engineers and firemen entering this city except the burlington held a meeting lato last night in which they resolved that after 12 noon on anav they mould refuse to handle L j n tars of freight except be ise stock or perishable freight which had been bt tried previous to that houy the coin cittee called on tile ants to dagand no titled themos the order S if the road engineers are put in the yards to do tile s ditching or new men are tired in their places then the switchmen ill refuse to work the manage ra of tile line have not yet made known bilat they will do but it is au nied they will attempt to handl opre th freight moar or at s april L the switch men of the st paul company in this cl ity have formulated a demand to be presented to general manager ros we I 1 miller that no IQ freight shall be handled by the road u ader any circumstances in the event that tile demand is not complied Ith they will quit work at 1 1 tomorrow to morrow SCAB 81 Jos Erix april I 1 all the freight br kemen on tile city st joe council bluffs railroad struck to day aney assign as reasor danger of their lives in working with scab engineers this makes striker 0 now in the CRY IM STUnG anta CHICAGO april 2 tile burlington continues ite aggressive aggress policy and about 9 the police that it was going to deliver a train of frugh t to the central rall I way A 1 cers was sent to abo cantria contria barda sand soon I 1 after the burlington bristling with pinkerton and rat way officials pulled in beyond tile usual curses and crieg of scabs that greet IQ trains nowadays nowa dayo i here was no hostile demonstration the cars were delivered to gan central the I 1 QI engine pink ertons and officials quickly cisal feared from the scene As soon as tbt had gone the michigan I 1 switchmen notified the yardmaster yard maste r that they bould not touch ilia IQ cars A strike on this road will therefore b 0 precipitated whenever an order Is g I 1 ven to move tile cars now in tile yard it is thought this order is sure to come during the morning the burlington also announced they had four hundred cars at englewood lie they to offer the lake shore company during the day several switchmen on that line declared to a reporter that they would not haddie them we shall most certainly handle all f delivered to us said mackay anra i freight agent of ilia michigan tr when asked what they intended to do with ilia IQ cars our beneral su peri nten dent arrived here r detroit e to day just abat lills plans are I 1 do not know but au can rest a as ared that we will I 1 those cars it I 1 have to go down there aad help myself we propose to run this road and it our present employees refuse to carryout carr any of our der we adil them and fill their places so far I 1 have not board that they have refused to obey orders no 00 chicago april 2 this afternoon an attempt was made to set a train of twenty freight cars from the IQ road to tile chicago alton As the train passed tile viaduct at sixteenth tile engineers of ilia other roads refused to allew the train to go by they stopped its progress hy crossing and re crossing the brackis which intersect ilia road at this point these tactics ere kept lip for two hours and tile train was finally taken bat k into lie western avenue yards MILL STRIKERS rn april 2 A general strike was inaugurated at spa g clial co ill I 1 at na this morning six PITO U adred men struck and before the I 1 rouble is ended there are a P that tile entire this firm mill be concerned SANTA FE STRIKE KANSAS CITY april 2 A 5 this afternoon switchmen tho and fire men on the santa FO yards quit work in a vody they will go to work on condition that they are not required to handle IQ art frt ight springfield SPRIG FIELD ohio april 2 tho indiana western engineers and fi of tile brotherhood have notified noti fled general manager 11 that it be accepts any more 0 13 Q cars they ill strike ADVANCE III WAGES WANTED cincinati april 3 the house painters of the city cumbe numbe in i over struck today to day for all r in bajes and a decrease in h ours |