Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-20
CAR MEN WILL REORCANIZE
Strikers Will Join National Brotherhood II
Latter Endorse Their Action.
CLAIM COMPANY VIOLATED ITS COMPACT
Meeting Tuesday Afternoon at which
Formal Statement Was Framed
to BE sent 60 President Of
Union Pacific.

The striking car builders Of the local
Union Pacific shops held q meeting yester-
day morning looking to a decision as to what
the strikers will do regarding r~eorganisa-
ton in order to successfully cope with the
company in the present contest and as a
safeguard against future contingencies.
After the meeting John B. Evans, secre-
tary Of a committee appointed to take the
lead In strike affairs. made this statement:
THE trouble has grown out Of the COM
pany's violation Of its agreement. When
we accepted the piecework system, which
the Union Pacific was pleased to call a
premium system IL was understood that
the shop foremen were to Ak the prlees for
work. Within thirty days the company en-
ployed Mr.. Langford as piecework inspector,
and he began at once to cut prices, making
ss low as 80 per cent reductions in some
cases. holding that the prices paid the car
men were too high. This brought the daily
earnings Of some Of our men down to $3.50
a day, and so we could do nothing but quit
work.
Monday, when we walked out, three men
were to be put in the shops as 'pacemakers'
and we were to keep up with them.
The painters in the car shops had been
put on p~iecework some weeks ago and 1t
has never given satisfaction. There was
discrimination in certain cases. The COM
pany failed to keep its bond with the men,
who oberved theirs to the letter.
Not Rightly Represented.
I'VE have been misrepresented by F. A.
Jack. who was the leader from the shops
In the conference with the ofhcials and who
is now at work in the shops. Our interests
and our wishes were not correctly repre-
scented at these conferences.
W have not decided which organization
we will affiliate with. We left the Car
Builders association to go to the Brother
hood Of Railway Car Men, and are now in
communication with the after. II they en-
dorse our action we will Join them; II not,
we will form a separate and Independent
union and fight our wi battles. We are
prepared for a good contest, our pickets are
already at work and we are not out simply
for benefits"
This statement was made by an ohicial
of the Union Pacific:
THE men did not consult their best in
terests in striking. They had an oppof-
tunity under the new system OF making
more than their old wages amounted to
and a great many Of them succeeded in
this particular. The company stood good
and stands good yet to its pledge, that In
no case would the daily wage drop below
the old price, 30 cents an hour, or what
ever the case might have been. f. a.
Jack, the man who had more to do for the
workmen in bringing about the new agree
ment, pronounces 1t fair in every respect,
and the fact that he refuses to strike Is
evidence that he does not sympathize with
those who have struck. Mr.. Jack is a
union man, ais are the greater part of those
who did not strike. The strike was pre-
cipitated chiefly by nonunion men.
Numbers Of shop Men.
THE original number of employees in the
car shops was 26S. Today there are rs.
leaving 1913 who went out. This rs does not
include those at Council Bluffs, the origi-
nal number Of whom Is SO, none of whom
struck. II does include IS in Murphy's
hole however. There lie no trouble any
where outside Of Omaha among the car men,
and there will be none"
TIL strikers themselves are not claiming
that car men In other places will 90 out.
Thu company states that no further
trouble has occurred at North Platte and
that things along the line look very quiet
and promising for the Union Pacific. De-
spite the recent demonstration at North
Platte the o~ficials claim a gain in their
shops there Monday Of eight machinists,
three machinists' helpers, two boiler max
ers and twelve boiler makers helpers.
Secretary Grace OF the machinists states
that the company sent into Rawlins six
men, all Of whom refused to 20 to work,
and that at Kansas City nve quit Monday
and that more were going out that night, as
they were iust racaiyinR thafr nav