Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1902-07-07
PUTTING In NEW MEN
Union Pacific Evidently Preparing to
Resume Shop Operations,
EFFECT OF STRIKE ON TRAIN SERVICE
Officials Deny that Absence of Machinirts
Delays Their Trains.
NEITHER SIDE SHOWS ANY WEAKNESS
Company and Strikers Both Confident Of
Winning Out
CAR BUILDERS WALKoUT is PROBABLE
Declare They VIII Not submit to
Piecework and Company Not
Likely to Discriminate In
Their Favor
)flciGls Deny that Absence Of Machinists
Delays Their Trains
EITHER SIDE SHOWS ANY WEAKNESS
Company and Strikers Both Confident of
Winning Out
CAR BUILDERS WAlKoUT is PROBABLE

The importation of nonunion men 10 all
strikers places continues at different
points over the Union Pacific system and
has given rise to a report, which was cir
culated in Omaha Sunday, that the man
agement Of the company intends to make a
seneral effort to resume operations in It's
shops within a very few days.
President Burt was asked Yesterday aft
ernoon II there was any truth in this re-
port. He said:
Il am not giving out information on that
subject today"
viii you deny or afiirm the reports"
was asked the president.
But he refused to do either and declined
to discuss strike matters further
The rather prolonged idleness OF the
boilermakers and machinists Is said to be
having bad effect upon the motive power
of the road and While the officials have In
sisted that their engines are not suffering
nor their traffic facilities impaired In any
respect, the mechanics take the opposite
stand and point to the fact OF the frequent
delays in Union Pacific trains all over the
system as proof that the strike is produc-
ing an effect upon the transportation serv-
ice. officials utterly repudiate any such
reports and hold that whatever delays have
OtCuTTtu uuIlnB lnb ldSL week nave Deen
due simply to heavy rains and high waters
and not in any particular to defective
boilers or car equipment.
Can't Run without shops.
"As matter of fact, the Union Pacific
road nor any road cannot run it's affairs
without shops; IL II could, 1t never would
have had shops in the first place." said a
railroad man yesterday, land more than
that, the Union Pacific, OF course, will get
its shops into operation as soon as IL can,
conveniently, but IT does not follow and IL
is not a fact that the motive power of the
road is seriously defective a result Of
the strike or for any other cause. As has
been said before this road has suffered
nothing seriously thus far from the strike"
There was a decided lull in strike AFFAIRS
in Omaha yesterday. The hlacksmiths and
other strikers held executive meetings, the
result of oil of which was a more steadfast
adherence to the original policy to stand
out for primary demands. Not on the rail-
roads side nor that of the strikers is there
the remotest indication of concession, and
so far as can be seen the strike is no nearer
an end than It was June IS, when the boiler
makers initiated It, II the oficials OF the
Union Pacific have any plans for making
concessions to the men they are surround
ing all buCH WIN uIIuOSl secrecy. NO luLl-
nation OF yielding has reached the strikers.
nor have the latter given anyone reason TO
believe that they were courting a compro-
mise.
The fact that the company continues to
import foreign yorkmen tends to support
the theory that 1t is not yet ready to re-
cede from it's original position. These men
have not only been sent into Omaha, but
into cities on the western end OF the sys-
tenn as we'll A business once, It is said,
has been established by the road In Denver
for the purpose of recruiting shopmen.
NOnunionists StiII In Shops.
Although more new ones were on their
way to take their places, three OF the non
union arrivals from Chicago left the shops
and the yards yesterday, joining their
comrades who had gone Friday and satur-
day. These three, however, changed their
minds shortly after they had reached the
! outside OF the yard gates, and asked to be
| readmitted, but this was refused them
The strikers are still claiming that by
today all the men brought from Chicago
will have left the shops There are some,
however, who have failed az yet to show any
disposition to leave and are apparently
we'll satisfied with their lot
The vital turn in affairs which has been
| looked for since the early part OF last
week, when the car builders, learning Of
the company's intention to enforce piece
work throughout the shops, manifested dis
satisfaction and demanded a new hearing.
probably will materialize before night. II
depends upon the result OF a conference
which the car builders have scheduled
with Superintendent McKeen some time to-
day. President Burt said yesterday that
| Mr.. McKeen would not reach Omaha until
this morning. but his arrival is confidently
looked for then.
McKeen HurryinE Home.
The fact that Mr.. McKeen dropped every
thing in the west, where he and General
Manager Dickinson had gone to survey the
| field, and started at once for Omaha when
! the car builders renewed their complaints,
| leads to the theory that the company IL
more than anxious TO patch up matters with
the car men and avert their striking II
possible Whether the company's desire
for peace will lead It to the extent OF ex-
empting the car builders from the piece
work regulation Is a matter OF considera-
bic moment Just now to the strikers as a
body Should such a remarkable eonees-
sion be made the demands OF the other
crafts will be pressed with more tenacity
| and yiRor than ever. The fact that the car
builders resolutely announce their deter
mination TO strike unless allowed to pro-
ceed under the old daily-wage system leads
many OF the strikers to believe the company
may grant the car mems demands.
The machinists are claiming more
strength each day. They are still reioie-
ing over the break at Evanston, where ten
OF their men have left the shops. leaving
but nine at work, and these are expected
| to go.
Report from Columbus.
A report reached Vice President Wilson
yesterday that the only nonunion machin-
lists in Columbus had been run out OF
town" by a crowd Of strike enthusiasts.
The meeting tonight In Washington hall
at which President Samuel Gompers OF the
American Federation OF Labor and Presi-
dent James OConnell Of the International
| Association OF Machinists Will speak on
organized labor and the Union Pacific strike
in particular. is absorbing interest among
the strikers.