Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17
ENCOURAGES STRIKERS HERE
Fad Of Goal Trouble Will Help Union
Pacific Mons Cause.
WILL BRING RAlLRoAsERS MORE MONEY
Great Financial Burden on American
Labor Unions VIII ne Relieved
when Anthracite Miners
Return 20 work.

The press reports yesterday indicating
that a settlement would be effected in the
Pennsylvania coal mine strike aroused en-
thusiasm among Union Pacific strikers,
whose cause will be vastly benefited. indi-
rectly, by the termination Of this gigantic
labor war. When the 147, 900 coal miners
who have been on a strike since May re-
turn TO work a heavy financial load will
have been removed from the American Fed
GRAFTON OF Labor, which will enable that
body TO extend more aid to the strikers
here as well as in other places. When these
$4,000 men 90 back TO the mines they will
become paying instead Of dependent mem
bers. benefactors instead Of benehaiaries,
which will have a double effect. They will
resume their regular contributions to
the central fund and those thou
sands Of labor organizations over
the United States that have been
helping them will have the opportunity Of
diverting their money to other channels.
Nearly II not every labor organization in
Omaha and along the line Of the Union Pa
eihc strike, has been a regular contributor
to the coal miners In their fight against the
barons Of Pennsylvania; they have been I'M
able to do so as much as they desired for
the Union Pacific strikers nearer home, but
being relieved from this greater obligation
they will be enabled to throw more strength
to the strikers here. But this is not all.
II is a fact that Cheyenne and other Union
Pacific strikers have been doing what they
could to aid the coal miners and this money
will, Of course, all be kept at home.
Says Can Fight All Winter.
I'VE will become lnvincible now. with
these and other potent factors In our favor
and pr01oot o,,r H1b4 aIoar 4kxz,uh, A.
winter and spring, too, II necessary. This
certainly gives us a firm grip on the Union
Pacific from which VIC are bound to win"
said a vice president of the international
Association OF Machinists.
Other conditions have arisen to en-
courage and quicken the hopes Of the
Union Pacific strikers. 1t now appears
that their repeated assertions that skilled
mechanics, such as are needed in Union
Pacific shops, are decidedly scarce, have
been substantiated in an ncontrovsrtible
manner. Numerous applications for skilled
shopmen from western railroads are on
file at the local strike headquarters. Some
Of these orders have been filled; some
more will be filled, while others will go
unaccommodGted. A reporter for The Bee /,
was shown two of these orders, one calling
for FIVE machinists, the other for twenty.
The road from which the latter order
came has Just closed negotiations with the
Union Pacific strikers whereby 1t gets
twenty-five of their machinists, to whom
was furnished free transportation to the
various places in which they are to work.
The general manager of this road in his
last letter says: II am glad to get the
twenty-five men you sent and can use
twenty more. Would like to have them as
soon as they can arrange to come" This
road has a high schedule of pay for its
Bhopmen.
Upon the same line David A.. Boyd, the
machinists' business agent at Detroit,
writes 81 cannot get enough men to fill
my orders. There is more work In this
state alone than there are men to do It,"
Over Hundred Thousand Members.
One Of the machinists' leaders said that
organization has a total membership of
10000 and controls the major portion Of the
best mechanics outside of the union. He
says that approximately there are 100, 900
machinists now at work in the United
States.
with all these stern facts and figures in
view is 1t not perfectly evident that the
Union Pacific is not getting competent and
skilled mechanics. as its officials have so
persistently claimed" asked one Of the men.
NACO EIGblu6ulb mulberry ana Wilson OF
the International Association OF Machinists
have Just returned from Chicago and claim
TO have positive information that Horace
G.. Burt will be reelected president Of the |
Union Pacific. The theory has not been
since the stockholders at their
Salt Lake City meeting Tuesday reelected !
the old Board Of Directors.
The strike leaders have a theory that !
Burt will be invested with special |
to force the strike to a successful
end for the company within sixty days and
II this cannot be accomplished to begin
for a settlement at the end of
that period. 1t is impossible to confirm
any such belief.
President Burt arrived yesterday morning
from Salt Lake City. where he was during
the annual meeting Of the stockholders. He
met at Union station by Chief Engineer !
Berry Of the Union Pacific and proceeded !
At once to the shops, where the two re-
NAMED for some time. The utmost secrecy {
Is being maintained at headquarters as to {
any plan the company may have. Every {
Thing Is expected to hinge on the directors
in New York. II a settlement is
not ordered the strikers may endeavor to
sxtend their hght all along the Hartman
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BHrtenders Are Generous. :
AS showing the interest and cooperation I
u othe' local union for the strikers, local {
No. 264, International Bartenders' I
league has voted to make a regular weekly a
to the Union Pacific strikers Of I
$50 until the fight is over. This Is com h
a new organization, having been Il
n existence only about a year, and It's
action is regarded as most generous. I
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