Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-05
CONDUCTORS ARETAKEN BACK
Five Men Discharged BY Union Pacific Are
Promptly Rsinststsd.
TRABMEEs CAUSE FOR STRIKE REMOVED
Latter said to Have served Notice on
Company chat Revolt Would
Occur Unless Men Were
Put to work.

II the Union Pacific strikers had reared
any hopes Of gaining their fight upon the
basis Of the fact that the company dis
charged five Of its conductors for alleged
arbitrary reasons, they met with disap-
pointment. as the company has reinstated
all Of these men, thus removing a cause
for rebellion Of the trainmen.
Thee conductors were discharged one
day last week and strikers declare it was
because the men had been contributing
financially to their cause. This was taken
as an act Of disloyalty BY the Union Pa
eihc and the discharge Of the men is said
10 have been the result. Forthwith a
report emanated from the trainmen that
unless the Union Pacific receded from its
arbitrary position the trainmen would
strike. A strike OF the trainmen is what
the shopmen have been hoping might come
about, for It would, In their opinion, tie
up the motive power Of the road, which Is
al they consider necessary to put a quick
and final end to the trouble and land the
strikers in the high seats of winners. II
reports be true, this view was shared in by
officials of the company, for It is said that
hardly had General Manager Dickinson re-
turned Friday morning than he sent for
the conductors discharged and their rein
statement followed in very short order.
Inub a new ana IaT more serious revolt
than the strike Of the shopmen has been
averted. It is said the trsinmep GER
tainly had their minds made up to strike
had not the company taken bavk the Ave
conductors.
No further developments of the black
smiths affairs at North Platte have been
reported. except that the company is pro-
ceeding with its work Of dismantling the
shops, which looks very much as II 1t had
no idea OF abandoning its purpose in spite
of the threats OF the shopmen that they
will not leave that city and will become
open rebels II the Union Pacific persists In
Its plans.
New Engines on the way.
None of the seventy-one new locomotives
which the Union Pacific has had built by
the Baldwin works has arrived In Omaha
as yet, although a number are said to be on
the way now. 1t was given out at the Office
of General Manager Dickinson that
there was no question of the delivery Of
these engines and that a good many were
now between Philadelphia and Omaha, trav-
cling this way, and would be here within a
very short time. They are expected any
day." it was said. The tardy arrival Of
these engines is pointed to by the company
as proof of its repeated statement that it's
motive power had not suffered as strikers
represented.
STRIKERS have been disposed to treat the
purchase OF these engines as a joke and the
engines as myths" said a Union Pacific
official, but they will see in a few days
that they have been deluded by their own
fancies and that the Union Pacific has had
built seventy-one mighty big, fine locomo-
tives."
Another large importation of new men
from the east has been made by the Union
Pacific, the men arriving yesterday. As
usual. there is a dispute as to the exact
number. The .company's oficials say there
we're fifty in the batch and the strikers
pickets say there were thirty-five.