Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-04-20
UNION PACIFIC STRIKE.
Shop Employees on the Entire System Or
dered to Stop WORK.

d0rGd TO STOP WORK.
OMAHA, Ncb., April IA general
strike OF shop employees of the Union
Pacific Railroad was inaugurated at
noon to-day. It is estimated that
the strike will involve 5000 men,
strung out halt across the continent
from Omaha to Portland, Ore. There
are large forces at Cheyenne, RaWlins,
Laramie, Salt Lake and Ogden. A
somewhat similar transcontinental
strike, but hardly of such mammoth
proportions has been in progress on the
Santa Fe system for nearly a week.
Six hundred men in the Union Pa
cifc shops here struck at noon. The
men who went out were the machinists,
boiler-makers, blacksmiths, molders
and pattern-makers. The employees
claim that the company acted in
bad faith concerning the fulfill
ment of an agreement entered
into to allow the force Of men
time was below the standard of nine
hours day. 1t is claimed that the
company, instead of allowing the force
of men employed to reduce itself,
naturally has kept up the full quota of
men, and in some shops, Omaha in
GUIDED, has increased the force. The
company not only increased the force,
but reduced the standrd of time from
nine hours to eight hours for a work
ing day on January Is of this year.
The employees claim to have q written
agreement signed by General Manager
Dickinson and Supt. Mertsheimer, that
while the men are working eight hours
it is understood that the places of men
hn ~ I,n l,I
except when absolutely necessary in
order to carry on the work to advantage.
KANSAS Cry, Mo, April l7.--All the
boilermakers, machinists and black
smiths employed by the Union Pacific
road at Armstrong, near here, went out
on strike to-day at 1915 o'clock. This
means that strike has been ordered on
the entire SYSTEM as the men here acted
under instructions from Omaha.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 17.-At II 80
all the machinists, boilermakers, car
rcpairers and other shop men at this
point quit work and joined the
general strike on the Union Pacific
system. The men express themselves
as satisfied with the wages paid here,
which are higher than at other points,
bgt will stand by the strikers on the
whole system. Three hundred and
1ltty men are affected.
LARAMIE, Wyo., April 17-There is
considerable excitement among the en-
ployes in the Union Pacific shops in this
city regarding a contemplated strike of
the machinists, boilermakers and black
smiths. 1t is understood that at noon
to-day telegram will be re-
ceiyed announcing whether the men are
to 90 out. Master Mechanic Davies
said this morning that he knew of no
tvIly L.,, I,, Il Al,
no committee had waited upon him and
that there had been no violation of the
contract agreement with employees of
these classes, made last spring. So far
as can be learned from other sources,
the strike is one of sympathetic char
acter brought about by the Santa Fe
strikers of the same class of en-
ploycs. There are six shops on
the Wyoming Division of the Union
Pacific and there are about forty shops
altogether on the system. The shops
on this division are at Cheyenne, where
about 800 men would be affected by the
strike, about 100 would go out here, %
ut RaWllns, II at Green River, - at
at Ogden.
WICHITA, Kas., April 17.--All freight
trains on the Purcell division of
the Santa Fe and on the Wichita Il West
ern have been abandoned for lack of en-
gines. There are twelve dead engines
at Newton, seventeen at Arkansas City
and nineteen at Purcell, and
the road has no means of making the
repairs necessary to put them in serv-
ice. There were fifteen trains of cattle
in the Purcell yards this morning and
only four available engines, including
two switch engines.
LA JuNrA, Col, April 15.-The nom
union shop men brought here from Den
yer Thursday to take the places of the
strikers, walked out of the shops this
morning and joined the strikers. The
non-union men will be given a recep-
ton tonight by the old men and
shipped back to Denver this morning.