Arizona republican., 1902-06-30
TIE UNION PACIFIC
 STRIKE ORDERED
Seventeen Hundred Men Will
 Be Idle Today
The Union is Fighting for an Exist ence and Against the Introduction of the Piece Work System The Refusal of the Last Demand.

Omaha. Neb.. June 29.-By direction of the executive committee of the ma chinists of the Union Pacific last night, following the rejection of the general agreement which they had presented, an order was made to become effective some time before Monday morning calling cut 5G0 machinists and their 300 helpers and apprentices. The com- I!ittee announces with confidence that the walk-out will be complete, in which event the machine shops and round- houses will be closed at Council Bluffs. Iowa: Omaha, Columbia, Grand Island. Beatrice. North Platte and North Kcarney, Neb.: Julesburg and Denver, Colo.; Cheyenne, Rawlins, Green River and Evanston, Wyo.; Ogden, Utah and Armstrong, Ellis and Junction City, Kansas.
 This means a total of 170O men out On the Union Pacific by lockout or wclkcut They include 120 molders, nearly 100 boilermakers and sec ma chinists, or about LOCO men, embrac ing the totals of three union districts whC will receive strike benefits. The remaining 700 are cut because of a complete shutdown of the Cheyenne rJs' shops.
 The demands made by the machinists and rejected by the company were that pay by piece work be not introduced: that a 10 per cent raise of wages be granted and that union men recently discharged be reinstated. even though the shops be required to work short time while the boilermakers' strike it fsal ci,,1 lar demands 9. month ago, which were then rejected, and returned tc the city this time with full power to act, con- sequently a decision was promptly made to order a walkout.
 T. L. Wilson, fourth vice president cf the national organization, is here from St. Paul advising with the com n2ittee. He asserts that the western district will contribute s3,o00 weekly tc the support Of the strike, and help will be received frcm the American Federation of Labor.
 The. n.achinists declare that an at tempt is being made to crush the unions in the Union Pacific shops and to fierce the installation of the piece work system which was introduced in a few minor departments of the shops
  ins0n told them yesterday that it had become the fixed policy of the company to install piece work throughout. The machinists are confident that they can cripple the railroad in a few days by the non-attention the engines will re- vcive, since many have already dam aged boilers since the boilermakers' strike began, and thus force the rail- rCld to terms.
 Taa officials of the railroad assert that there is q plentiful supply Of en- zines on hand many Of the damaged ones can be spared and a large con signment Of new cnes will arrive be- fore August 1st, so a prolonged fight can be continued. It is also rumored that the company has engaged a large number of ron-union machinists on siXty-days' contracts in Chicago.
 There is no change in the situation tonight. Each side is waiting until to- morrow, when the effect of the strike can be noted. The company declares that the strike will net affect the smaller shops of the road, and that only men in Omaha, Cheyenne and Armstrong, Kansas, will obey the strike order. The executive committee of the strikers declares that every machinist on the road will refuse to work to- morrow morning.