Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1888 — The Strike Extended. [ARTICLE]

The Strike Extended.

The switchmen on the C., M. & St. P., struck on the 30th, because they were required to handle “Q” cars. New men are arriving from tueEastto take positions vacated by strikers. The engineers, switchmen, brakemen, and many conductors on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R. R. quit work, Saturday. ~~ ■ The strike includes the employes of all the divisions centering in Chicago both freight and passenger. The men are incensed over the action of the company in employing new engineers, and firemen and conductors who have acted as engineers, to take their, places. Many meh regard Thursday’s strike as a trivial affair, pud expected thatthe company would gracefully concede and

make a binding promise not tp receive “Q” cars. Instead, the company accepted tbe situation and commenced filling the places of the strikers at once. This is tbe real cause of a strike that promises to be a loug and desperate one. It was expected by tbe officialsof the company that a committee would be appointed,at Friday night’s meeting and a conference held at which a satisfactory settlement could be reached. * A tacit agreement of this kind was made Friday afternoon, and the officers cf the road met at Division Superintendent Collins’s office to await the result of ihe meeting. These gent’emen waited and waited, but the committee never came. In the excitement of the occasion the committee was overlooked by tbe strikers. Business on the road is at a standstill.