Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-21
GUARDS LEAVE THEIR PLACES
Union PHcifc's Trouble in Keeping Non.
union shSpmsn is Net All,
PICKET LINE IS BIG HELP TO STRIKERS
Each Strike Breaker Crossing the
Line is Approached and Asked
10 Quit Work, but No ViO-
Ience IL Permitted.

OBJECTIONS in the ranks Of Union Pacific
union shop men, though they are unabated
there. Guards are said to be firing of their
Jobs and are leaving in numbers in some OF
the towns. Thus far few have left in
Omaha, despite the talk OF serious discon-
tent among them.
I President Kennedy Of the district and To-
cal boiler makers lodges is in receipt OF a
letter from North Platte saying that thir-
teen guards have quit their positions there
and left the place. Thu same letter tells
OF the desertion the same day Of fourteen
shop men. 1t is further said that this
spirit Of unrest prevails to a very great
degree among the men apd guards who are
left at North Platte and hat for this rea-
son other OBJECTIONS are looked for.
From Cheyenne comes word to District
Secretary Grace of the machinists that If
teen OF the nonunion shop men have aban-
doned their places and quit the town.
Grand Island reports two machinists and
one helper quitting and four had left the
Omaha shops before 10 o'clock yesterday
morning.
William Richelieu, who has charge Of the
picket lines here, says since the reorgani-
cation OF his men everything is working in
systematic form, without the least sem
blance OF disorder. Every ~nonunion man
who crosses the line coming from or going
to the shops is approached and asked to
leave the place he is holding. But II the men
cannot be persuaded to withdraw their OPP
position to the strikers fight, then they are
allowed to proceed unmolested.
Picket Line Effective.
1--WE have reaped good results from oul
picket work in the last few days" said one
OF the active strike leaders. and we pro.
pose to keep up this work with all due Wig.
Hence. 1t has been the one source upor
which we have depended more than AM
other to break the strike and we have faith.
fully endeavored to have this work carried
without violence, knowing that aside from
the moral wrong Of such methods the,
could never be made to win. We have FIRE.
quently congratulated ourselves upon thu
general absence Of violence since this strikl
began. / have been in more than one sucl
strike and l must say that there has beef
less violence and lawlessness in this hgh
than any / ever knew Of equal moment
The one sad and outrageous incident whicl
occurred within the last week we deplor
more than anybody, but we cannot or coul,
not help 1t. II was not the work OF any o
our men and that is a great source Of graf
~ihcation TO US. We realize that among GU
number. large as It is. there are n~aturall
some excitable men, but we have done gu
best to keep them in line and prevent an,
serious results. But we are not the onl,
ones who have a duty to perform in LOOKING
after the incorporate members OF our or
CARNATIONS. The company has the sam
duty confronting It. Only a few days age
as the papers reported, one Of our men.
striker, was brutally assaulted by one o
the Union PacIhe guards and that withou
the least provocation. We deplore that in
cident also. We have been reliably In
formed that the guard who did the assault