Engineers Strike

THE ENGTNEEBS GO OUT. CmcAGO, Feli. 27. -At 4 o'clock this ïnornIng the 2,000 loeoinotive engineers and firemen on the Chioag, Burlington & Quincy system betwoen Chicago and Denvei struck for higber wages, anl ail passenger and freijrht trafile was at. a standstilL Fully 15,000 ftinployeH are directly affected by the etrike. The differenoes between the enffineers and the iotii have been undei iiscussion for iour weeks, and Henry B. 8tone, general ïnanager, was familiar ■with them. The engineers detnand that all be paid the same watjes. The company Ut present clasáíies lts men and grades their wages. Fiist-year men, those jnst promoted from flremen, receive certain wagep, emimated on the miles run, and second-year men a hieher price per mile. Poll engineer's wages are not paid ontil the third year. The engineere claim that the Jjurlington road pays leee than many thiid-class roads. All the roada centering in Chicago, except the Burlington, pay their engineere according to th Brotherhood schednla 'buring all the weeks of nepotiation Mr. 8tone has not been idle, An agent of his road went to Keading, I'a, and employed all tne men ae tíould who had recently been thrown out of einployment by the strike on the Fhiladelphia A Ilcadiñg Iiailroad Company. Other points were reached by te.egraph oflering work to idle engineers. Every man in the Bhows who could manage an engine was ordered to be ready togo ont with one. Applicants tor jobeas engineera got them in a hnrry. Early last evening the officers of the road Baid they had enoutjh men to run three traína each way. ïhe company has been running twenty-Rix sueh trains daily. Tbe Chicago, Burlington A Quincy railroad syBtem oerates over 4,000 miles of track. In addition to the main line it controls the Burlington & Missouri River railroad in Nebraska, the Hannibal A St. Joeeph railroad, the Kansas City, St JoBeph fe Councll Bluffs railroad and the Chicago A Iowa railroad. Over this great lengtb of track the Chicago, Burlington A Quincy road runs nearly 800 locomotives, operated by 2,000 enginemen. Pottsvilijs, Pa., Feb. 27.- A [number of the Btriking engineers and liremen of the Beading railroad of this city and Palo Alto haye left for Chicago to take service with the Chicago, Burlington A Quincy railroad in view of the strike of the Locomotive Brotherhood engineers of that road. The Beading engineers are Knights of labor and are eager to revenge themselves npon the Brotherhood, members of which organlzation took their places at tbe time of the Beading strike. Chicago, Feb. 2S. - Bu!, very few passenger trains on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road were running yèeterday, and f reight trafile was eiltirely suspended. The strike is general over the entire system. Chicago, Feb. 29.- The Chicago, Burlington A Quincy engine-men are BtUl out, and there is no prospect of a speedy ending ol the strike. The road hired a number of new engine-men yesterday and ran its passenger trains with some degree of regularity. No freight was handled. Scbanton, Pa, Feb. 29.- Mr. Powderly pave bis opinión on the strike last nigbt He said tbe Brotherhood engiueers were Ughtinjr for a jast principie, and iie would have only contempt for the men who enould take their placea The Brotherhood had often worked againt-t the Knights ol labor, and in the Southwest railroad Btrike had Btabbed them in the tack. They had taken the places of the P.eading men in the recent strike, and had often acted in a mean and öastardly spirit toward the Knighlö of Labor, but tuis, he said, would not jnstify the Knights in taking theii places in the present strike on the Burlington road. He sald he would advise all Knights not to interfere, and in conclusión hesaid: "Knights of Labor, from Maine to California, stand hrm; keepyour hands off; let the law of retaiiation be disregarded, and let. the men of the Chicago, Biulington & Qnincy railroad wiu this strike if they can."