Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-15
"SCADS" MUST Be TOLD
Employers MulCted for Injuries Done
Breaker by Colorado Strikers.
LAKE WoRKMEN THREATEN TO QUIT
Hundred Thousand May Leave Work
~ Demands Are Not Granted Mt
Conference. Called for
Today.

DENVER, April 14-Employers who fai
TO explain to men taking the places Of Others
who may be out on a strike, the annoyanc,
or violence to which hey may be subjected
are liable fo-f damages in case injury IL
done. e.
This is the opinion of the court OF appeal,
Just handed down in the case OF william
Holschauser, who while in the employ o.
the Denver Gas and Electric company waI
shot by striking employees OF the company
He declared that he was hired without being
tofd that there was a strike at the plant.
an giving the opinion Of the court Justice
Thompson saidi .
The controlling feature of this case Is
thar the employer knowingly exposed the
employe to personal danger and concealed
the danger from him, 1t is intimated that
during the Intervening time the pwlaint1f
ought to have discovered that a strike was
In existence, and that the defendants old
mind. t
How he might have made the discovery
unless he had seen or heard something to
suggest inquiry we are not told. 1t is al
ldlEed that the plaintiff did not know thai
t9ere was a strike or that he was in any
danger until he was attacked. This explicit
statement Of fact is not TO be met by mere
argument. C
One Hundred Thousand May Quit.
CHICAGO, April lion the result of a
meeting to be held tomorrow depends the
question: Of a strike which may involve
100000 men on the Great Lakes. An ulti-
matum on wages is to be presented by the
Package Freight Handlers at Chicago to
the managers of the lake lines and labor
contractors who supply men for dock work
along the Chicago river. The demand is
backed by the International 'Longshoremen,
Marine and Transport Workers association.
For a month the Chicago Package Freight
Handlers have been in dispute with w. ].
Connors. a labor contractor, and the agents
Of the Canada Atlantic and Rutland Transit
lines. A week ago the workers sent to the
executive board OF the t'Longshoremen as
ISOLATION at Buffalo a resume OF their de-
rnands and Of the OFFER made them by the
employers.
Today William Balm. president and bust
ness agent Of the Longshoremen, received
a reply from Buffalo and a meeting With
the employers will be held tomorrow.
Til longshoremen demand 80 cents an
hour for a ten hour day, IS cents an hour
overtime and 40 cents an hour on Sundays,
besides pay for time lost during the shift
ing of steamers from dock to dock. The
employers offer 80 cents an hour fat. The
men and employers agree on the wage scale
for warehouse workers.
OhiOans Turn Foreigners out.
wAPAKoNETA, o.. April IA strike
today OF 100 men employed In the construc-
ton hot the Western Ohio Electric railway
betwN pen here and Sidney eliminated this
even pg in a riot. Loss OF life was averted
only by the officials yielding to all the de-
mands of the strikers.
Eighty Italian lhborers were imported
from Brooklyn and put to work on the line
. this morning and a number of local men
were discharged. The rest of the local
workmen Immediately laid down their
tools, demanding that the foreigners should
be removed from town, as they would not
world with them.
Toyafds evening the strikers and sym
pathfzers armed with shot guns and rifles
took possession Of the passenger station,
blocked the track and stopped all cars
and trafac. The marshal was assaulted ana
the sheriff could swear in no deputies.
Finally the situation became so alarming
that the company agreed not to put the
foreigners to work. They were hustled out
OF town on the work cars tonight.
National OrganiEer II WayIaid.
KEYSTONE, W.. Va, April 14.-George
NJ. Reed of Indianapolis. national organizer
Of the United Mine Workers Of America,