Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-01
One STRIKE ENDS TUESDAY
7nion Pacific Gar Builders Decide to
Resume Their Work,
4AcHlNlsTs AND OTHERS REMAIN FIRM
Original Assert that Return
Of the Car Men Will I'm No
way Anect Their stand
Against Company.

The Union Pacific car builders strike is
over. The car builders decided yesterday,
ct a meeting in Labor temple, to give up
the fight and return to work Tuesday
morning. They would return this morning
n this was not Labor day.
This action was predicted Saturday, when
twenty or twenty-five Of the car men
went back to work in the shops. From
that time 1t was a f~oregone conclusion that
the car builders would surrender and re-
turn to their places in the shops.
1--WE have disbanded our union" said an
ofhcial Of the erstwhile car mems local
union yesterday after the meeting. I'VE
are sorry we ever struck now, but We
have done what seemed best to us. As a
matter Of fact, It would have been folly,
utter folly, for us to have held out and
tried to cope with the disadvantages
against us; they were too great. We had
no resources and we had no organization,
since the little union we formed here
Rmong ourselves was not recognized and
supported by the National Brotherhood Of
Railway Car Men. We applied for admis-
sion into the national body and failed to
get It. We did not care to go back into
the Car Builders association, whence we
had come; to have done SO would have
been to have divided our number, for many,
the majority, in fact, we're not In favor
of going into that organization. So there
you are. What was left for us to do but
disband our organization and take our po-
sitions back while we could get them?
We are Just as much opposed to accepting
piecework as we we're at first, but what
can we do? Where We made our error
was in striking in the first place, but we
didn't know then what we do now"
Car Builders Are Independent.
The 1856 car builders who struck and
who will return to work are not closely
allied in their crafts to the motive power
ehopmen who are on a strike, and II Is gen.
orally admitted that their surrender will
have no effect whatever upon the strike OF
the other men. The machinists, boiler
makers and blacksmiths were opposed to
the strike OF the car men in the first place
and do not feel particularly Disconnected
over their action in returning to work.
Some individuals, however. look upon the
course Of the car men as unfavorable to
the cause of the strikers. more in moral
than material eject.
No new developments have arisen in the
motive power shipments strike or in the
builders who were at work on the new
shops. Some vital change may occur In
the latter Wednesday morning. The Build
ing Trades council and every union, sep
a~rately, interested in the builders strike,
will hold meetings Tuesday night in Labor
temple, when this trouble will be thoroughly
reviewed and definite and final plans shaped
II possible.
Nineteen nonunion men are reported to
have arrived at the Union Pacific shops yes
terday from the east and seven Of them
deserted.
District Secretary Grace OF the machi-
nists says he is still getting substantial
financial aid from outside sources. A check
Of 800 was received yesterday from ma
chinists at Pocatello, Idaho, who wrote that
they were endeavoring to arrange to send
IS q month for every member Of their lodge
until the strike here was over.