Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1888 — THE INDUSTRIAL REALM. [ARTICLE]

THE INDUSTRIAL REALM.

, The question of the legal obligations of railroads as common carriers in connection with the Burlington strike, says a. Chicago telegram, is now brought up for adjudication before Judge Gresham in the United States Circuit Court in the form of an application for injunctions restraining the Wabash road from further refusing to receive or deliver Burlington freight, and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Enginrers and its officers from Issuing orders to engineers and firemen to refuse to haul Burlington freight

The Burlington case in thus appealing to the law is considered to be the stronger because the Wabash road is is the hands of a receiver appointed by and acting under the directions ’ of the United States Court The decision in this case will determine the relations and legal standing of all the roads that have entered into pledges of neutrality as a means of avoiding trouble with the brotherhood. A Chicago dispatch of Saturday says: The Burlington officials received the following telegram from the General Manager of the Burlington and Missouri River Railway in Nebraska: Judge Dundy, of ths United States Court, has issued an order requiring the Union Pacific Railway Company to take our business in accordance with the interstate commerce law, and restraining the engineers of the Union Pacific Railway Company from refusing to take our business; also restraining the engineers from striking, combining, or confederating for the purpose of organization or advising a strike.