Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-30
STRIKE On ]. ,. ROAD
Boilermakers and Machinists
Threaten a Serious Stoppage
OF Trains.
They Ask Higher Wages, No
Piecework and Reinstate.
ment OF Men.
Both Sides Are Confident o.
Victory-l,70 Men Involved
in the Walkout.

Omaha, June 30-Over 1900 men, in
GLIDING boilermakers and machinists
are now on strike along the Union
Pacific system. No engine can be re-
paired without these men, or men in
their places, and a serious tieup of the
road is threatened.
Both sides are confident of victory
and say they are prepared for long
struggle.
The machinists asked for higher
wages, no piecework and reinstatement
of the men recently discharged by the
road.
The union has begun paying strike
benefits. and last night received a mes
sage from the national organization APP
proving of its action.
formal strike declaration will prob
ably be made today.
Omaha, June 2S.-By Associated
Press. BY the decision of the eXecu-
tive committee of the machinists of the
Union Pacific district yesterday, follow
ing the rejection of a new agreement
which they had presented, an order will
become effective some time before Mon
day calling out 500 machinists and
their 800 helpers and apprentices. The
committee announces confidence that
the walkout will ne complete, in which
event the machine shops and round
houses will be closed at Council Bluffs,
Ia; Omaha, Columbus, Grand Island,
Beatrice North Platte, and kearney
Neb. Julesburg and Denver, Col;
Cheyenne, Rawlins, Green River and
Evanston, Wyo.; Ogden, Utah, and
Armstrong, Ellis and Junction City,
Kas.
This means a total of LOO men out
on the Union Pacific by lockout or
walltout. They include 120 molders,
nearly 100 boilermakers and 500 ma
chinists, or about 1000 men, embracing
the totals of three union districts, who
will receive strike benefits. The re-
naming 700 are out because of the COM
plete shut down of the Cheyenne shops
and cuts in the forces of other shops.
The demands made by the machlnists
and rejected by the company We're that
pay by piece work be not introduced:
that a 10 per cent raise in wages be
granted, and that union men recently
discharged be reinstated, even tho the
shops be required to work at short time
while the boilermaker's strike lasts.
The machinists claim that an attempt
is being made to crush the unions in the
Union Pacific shops, and the forced in
stallation of the piece work system
which was introduced in a few of the
minor shops three days ago, is to be
the means. General Manager Dickinson
told them yesterday that it has become
the fixed policy of the company to in
stall piece work turnout.
The machinists are confident that
they can cripple the road in a few days
by the non attention that engines will
receive, since many already have dam
aged boilers since the boilermaker's
strike began, and thus force the railroad
to terms.
Officials assert that there is a plenti-
full supply of engines on hand, so that
many damaged ones can be spared, and
that a large consignment of new ones
will arrive before August l, so that a
prolonged fight can be maintained. 1t
is rumored that the company has en-
gagged q large number of non-union ma
chinists on Sixty-day contracts at Chi
CagO.