Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-17
The Trouble at the Boiler sz.ops.

Latest reports Of last evening from the st.
Paul & Manitoba shops was that no disturb
ance had occurred and none was likely to oc-
cur. The newly hired boiermakers adhere to
their determination of Thursday not to 90 to
work until the local union says
they may, and the railroad company is
steadfast to its determination not
to have anything to do with the men who
have induced the new corners tie stay out. A
few men and boys are at work in the boiler
shop. but there is lack of boiler makers to
keep up the work of that shop, and this of
course reduces the work which can be done
in other shops. Three boiler
makers from Winnipeg weat to work
in the shop yesterday morning but quit after
few hours Others are daily expected from
the East, and it is reported that some of those
who came few days ago have said they
would go to work if their bretheren of the
boiler makers union would give consent.
Vice President Hill, of the St. P. & M. COM
paDy, was questioned last evening regarding
the situation, and in answer expressed an OBJ
lrction to the boiler m akers, who went out
from the shop about two months ago, being
called strikers He says they are not on
a strike, but were discharged by the company
because they had proved unfaithful; and as
they have since done all they can to keep
other men from going to work they will not
under any circumstances be en-
ployed again by the company. He says
skilled boiler makers and that is more than
is being paid at any of the private boiler
shops. Their shop, he says, is the largest In
the city, and if the COMPANY had yielded to
the demands of the Boilermakers Union,
trouble would have followed at the private
yards.
Mr.. Hill says he is now at last convinced
that it is bad policy for railroad company to
locate its shops in a large city, because the
fluences and whisky. If there were fewer
rum mills in that part of the city,
he thinks, there would be less talk and
trouble among the men. The company
has provided comfortable barracks..for the new
men and has asked that policemen be stationed
at or near the shops to protect the men who
are at work from the interference of outside
be brought until full complement OF
boiler makers is obtained If in the
meantime, the Boiler Makers Union
should collect any more men
than it can support the company will not be
responsible. Mr.. Hill understands that the
men who wish to work are taken into the
rum mills and persuaded with promise of half
pay from the union not to go to work. Mean
time the company has to send some of it's
work away from the city and is likely to con-
slider the expedency of locating all its shops
now in st. Paul in some less dangerous neigh
bOrhOOd.
Yesterday forenoon Acting Mayor Dowlan
received a call from the Canadian boiler
makers, headed by delegation of the strikers
and numbering about twenty-five men. With
surprising cheek they requested transporta-
ton for the men to Canada, but his honor was
not to be SO easily bluffed. he gave them to
understand that there was no money in the
treasury that could be drawn on for that pur-
pose, whereupon they asked him to use his in
fuence to procure passes. They we're again
informed that such a course would not be
consistent, when they left.