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was then adjourned for dinner. I repaired to salon below with balance of the gang. There were about 150 men in attendance and they hung around i squads for about an hour but it is their motto not to talk on any business outside of the hall and I learned nothing there in the saloon, I then went to the P.Ft. W. Yards where I knew the sgtrike was to take place. Chas. Nailor chairman of firemen committee is a leader and a good man to watch, but he is smart and very careful what he says. I remained around t ere for about an hour and then went back to the meeting with some of the P.Ft. W. strikers. One engineer got up and made a speech which had an effect to discourage a good many. In substance he remarked that he thought they had made a mistake and as far as he was concerned he never expected to get back to work for the company again. Other speakers followed and soon got the boys to feeling good again. Nothing of further importance occured and I repaired once more to saloons with different members but learned nothing new.

Sunday, APril 1st. 1888 I did not go to the forenoon meet. The afternoon was taken up trying to harmonize the different lodges. THere seems to be a bad feeling between them all, more especially the switchmen and engineers and the sentiment of to-day's meeting was to get them to-gether and not each feel as if he was doing something for somebody else or something which someone else should do, as they now feel.. The switchmen claim they went out to help the engineers and the engineers say the switchmen went out in the cause of labor- thus the ill feeling. One man Pete Haley a P. & F.T. W. engineer while addressing the meeting said he had an old father 79 years old and a wife and six little children looking to him for