The Burlington And The Strikers

The Burlington and the Strikers.

Chicago, May 21.--Rumors were circulated Saturday that the striking engineers and firemen of the Burlington road had practically acknowledged their defeat and made a satisfactory arrangement with the road to be taken back on the old terms. Chairman Hoge, of the strikers' committee, said: "There is no truth whatever in the report. We expect that the inquiry by the inter-state commerce committee will begin June 10, at which time we shall present a great quantity of evidence to show that the road is now badly run." The railway officials deny the report that notice has been given the engineers in their employ that they must run their trains without pilots after the 20th, and that the notice would result in the discharge of 60 per cent of the new men. They say if such notices have been posted it has been done without authority, as the new men are entirely satisfactory.