Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-24

tending that II will have the effect of bring
ing out larger numbers Of the present forces.
No developments have come Of the Real
Estate exchanges move to conciliate the
parties to the strike. e. A. Benson of the
committee appointed to oftsr the mediation
of the exchange said yesterday that the
committee had approached neither the strik-
ers nor officials Of the Union Pacific and that
the matter was resting quietly.
The controversy between officials Of the
Union Pacific and the car builders who
struck a few days ago as to which party
broke the agreement entered into July z to
be maintained for one year. has reached a
point where the car men feel called upon to
issue a formal statement declaring that the
company and not they violated this con-
tract.
Letter to President Burt.
This letter has been sent to President
Burt;
OMAHA Aug; 2SaMr; Il g. Burt; Prssi.
dent Union Pacific Railroad company
iciais Of the Union Paciac claim we had
no grounds for walking out as we did
the car shop employees, furnish testimony
OF several men to show you and the public
proved by the evidence herewith submitted,
that 1t. was the company and not the men
who violated tn c agrssem Ss ,o Re Ng6
CARR AxFoRD.
+. SHARPER.
JOHN b. EVANS.
The evidence referred to consists Of state
ments from different men who had been
employed in the car shops. Pat McCab
one OF these men, said he began work there
August 6 and worked continually until the
strike. He claims he was TO get s1.25 for
a running board on an iron-roofed car and
IL and Q cents a foot for patches on roofs.
After three days Of employment, he states,
he was in ignorance as to what he was max
ing. that Mr.. Langford. the new piecework
inspector. cut wages and the foreman could
not tell him what he was making.
Complaint of n Painter.
James Bolan, a painter, says: Under
the old system Of pay I got 80 cents an
hour for vanishing a car, which therefore
gave me $1.2o for four hours work. Under
the pieeework system / have to do that
amount for So cents. Four hours for var
nishing a car is as fast as any man can
work, but they have compelled us to do
that work in two hours and a half under
the pieeework system, which is too much for
a man to try to keep up. I could not keep
up the lick regularly. At so cents an hour
vanished the car for s2.4O. under the old
pay system, but under the piecework sys-
tenn l would do the work for s1.72. The
company makes 6s cents on the car.
Robert Bailey-I was required to put
in a test days work to see how much /
could do. On August IL two OF US worked
as hard as we could under this new sys-
tenn and we made s2.s4. One day we
reached 1854. A days pay ranged from
$3.50 to So for the two Of us. but, the lick
was too hard to keep up
Never Received Premium.
w. @. Brown--Mr. Burt made the
statement In the shops that any man
working on piecework and making more
than the days wages would get a pre-
MUM. ! never received the premium
promised ms.
p. J. Meehan-What ] can't understand
Is that one nan working on the same
class OF work gets p cents and the other
Is cents. / appealed to my foreman for
tAe =e==s Z Ess entitled to and h. a.
mitted that there was something wronR
and said that Langford had cut the prices.
Charles E. Sroufe-I worked at piecework
and as far as l have gone Il Is pretty nearly
satisfactory. ! know that We have had 10
work twice a. hard since this man Lang