The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-03
UNION PACIFIC STRIKE MAY
TIE UP THE ENTIRE SYSTEM
Wheel Shop at Cheyenne Has Been Fitted Up as
a Boarding House for Employees.
Strikers Say That Competent Men Are Scace-Company Prepar
ing for a Long Siege.

OMAHA, Neb.. July 2.-The strike of
" the maehinists and boiler-makers
on the Union Pacific railroad
seems to have settled down to a stub
born. quiet fight for supremacy. TIE
strikers felt more encouraged today
from the walkout of their craftsmen on
the Northwestern and Montana Cen
tral railroads. which will greatly as
sist them because of the extra demand
it viii create for skilled workmen.
There are several places along the road
where the strikers have met the in
Surgent spirit This was particularly
true at Evanston, Wyo., where few
men quit.
W. Webster, president of District No
2 of Evanston, has gone home 10 line
up his men, Much interest centers in
the situation at that point, and z bitter
light is expected.
General Manager Dickinson and Su-
perintendent McKeen are still in the
west President Burt is giving his per-
sonal attention to matters at this end
Of the line. Tt is stated at railroad
headquarters that the company has no
reason to feel apprehensive over the re-
suits thus far, and officials persist in
saying no new plans have been adopted
LOT HlllUS the SITlkeIS pldCeS-
President Kennedy of the Boiler
Makers union said the reports Of rife
shots at Cheyenne were misleading. Ac-
cording to his advices, the reports
heard were those of ursting torpedOes
in the shop yards. and not gun shots
| Company Doubles Guard.
The company has taken the precau-
ton of doubling the guards at the shop
n f-f+ rEr =~r-Tlr
have placed pickets to watch the move
ments of the company and prevent, If
possible, new men going to work. The
western superintendent of detective
agency arrived in this city today, but
it is denied that he is employed by the
railroad company
Thomas L. Wilson. vice president of
the Machinists' union. today made a
statement to the public in answer to
that issued by President Burt of the
Union Pacific railroad, touching the
merits of the strike on that road.
Mr. Wilson admits that the road has
been paying the highest scale of wages
during the past, but says other roads
raised the scale of wages July ]. and
that the demands of the Union =PacitlG
machinist were strictly an line with
the general movement of all mechanics
| to get a fair share of the existing pros
| perity in the United States. and TO
which we are justly entitled" On the
refusal of the machinists 70 acce, II
piece work. Mr. Wilson says machinists
are not to be compared with train men,
who do not come into competition with
each other. He says such system
would tend TO bring them into competi-
ton with sweat shops workmen and
1 prevent them from treating as a body
with the company. He sums up as
| follows:
! 81 do not hesitate to most emphatic
/ ally say that this trouble was brought
about by the arbitrary actions of the
/ Union Pacific road. They wanted the
strike; they got it, and are apparently
/ glad of it, Since we are forced to It.
We will see. that the mems demands are
/ granted, or we will go down to defeat
/ like one man."