The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-25
Gossip About Union Pacific
Boilermakers' Strike.
Company Cannot Get Stationary
Boilers Repaired.
MORE MEN IMPORTED.
Gets FOrty-five Eastern and
Northern BOilermakerS.
Strikers Still Keep Pickets
Around Omaha Shops.

In Omaha the strike of the Union Pa
cifc boilermakers has taken turn that
seems to have been unanticipated by
the officials: they have found it impos-
sible to find workmen with which to put
the stationary boilers located in the
building in which they have their head
quarters, in shane for continuous use
and with the approach of winter they
face serious proposition.
The company has been importing a
great many boiler men lately. but it
seems that they are not craftsmen of the
f1rst class: and as new dueS have to be
placed, 1t is out of the question for
them to press into that kind of service
the men they have. After it was found
impossible to get men for this purpose
who were already in the employ of the
road all the contract shops of the city
of Omaha were visited, but in every
case the representatives of President
Burt were turned down: the outside
men refused to make a move which
would injure the cause of their striking
brothers.
The Importation recently of As men
from the east brings the total number
of strike breakers imported by the I'm
ion Pacific since the beginning of the
present difficulty up to 1853, according
to report said to be reliable This OF
course includes the number of men who
have been taken through Omaha to 9TH
g. er strike centers and not merely those
who have been placed in the shops here.
Only moderate proportion of this
number is said to be now at work in the
various shops. AS the company refuses
to give out the exact figures as to the
quota of men in its shops it is not pos
sible to obtain this information precise
~ From the first. however, the tide of
n0nun1On men has ebDed and flowed So
that migration from the shops has been
in progress as well as to them, not on
as large a scale, of course though in
the long run the OBJECTIONS have been
heavy.
The As men said to have been shipped
into the local shops came from Boston.
New York and some from Duluth
They came in over the Illinois Central
road Strikers were informed that hut
few skilled mechanics were among
them The company is said to have had
a plan to send a good many of the older
strike breakers from the Omaha shops
to Armstrong, Kas., upon the arrival of
the new recruits.
A company official made the state
ment Saturday that not a picket could
ne seen any where near the shops; that
comb" But investigations later GER
tainly proved the contrary If any Diff
ference, there are more strikers on the
strike began They are scattered over
g larger area than before President
Burt made a visit to the picket lines
one day last week-after the issuance
OF the Baldwin injunction-and found
a number of strikers present" He
pointed out a squad to one of the police
oHcers VINO was patrolling his beat
saving, There are some pickets" I'm
move on" which they did. but soon
returned 1t is the purpose of the
strikers, as has been stated. to main
tam their picket line with more dill
injunction, which contingency thew do
not think will come about