Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-01
Jays President Burt Will Start West Friday
to Confer with Men.
EXECUTIVE BOARDS HOLD JOINT SESSION
statenent Made After the Adjournment
Of This Meeting.
-ocN MEN TALK ON THE SITUATION
insist that whatever Else IL Agreed
Upon Piece work Must BE Adam
doned and the scabs
Must Go.

NEW YORK, Dec. ~31.-(Special Tele-
Rram.) -That the officials Of the Union Pa
cihc railroad and representatives OF the en-
aployes Of the company have arrived at a
satisfactory agreement in regard to the
Grievances OF striking shopmen, which
threatened serious trouble on all the Har-
trfman controlled roads, became definitely
lknown today, when a report was made to
tthe executive committee Of both the Union
Pacific and Southern Pacific railways that
the strike was over. While Mr.. Hartman
maintains his CHARACTERISED reticence con-
corning the situation, a director Of the COM
fpany said today:
y "A most satisfactory report on the labor
situation was presented to the executive
committees today. President Burt is ex-
pected to go west on Friday to thoroughly
put the case to the men. A compromise
has been effected, but l cannot divulge its
details. Not only has the strike Of shop
men been terminated, but the threatened
sympathetic strikes are thwarted by the
fair stand the officials have taken toward
the men"
Chairman Charles II. Tweed Of the South
ern Pacific company attended. Mr.. Tweed's
resignation as chairman OF the Southern Pa
cifc board, not as a member, was accepted.
although nothing has been done toward
belectlnB MS SUCCESSOR.
J. w. Kline, executive committeeman for
the Union Pacific blacksmiths, says that
negotiations between the strikers and
Union Pacific officials in the east have as
sumed a more favorable aspect than the
press dispatches even indicate. He has
been in daily communication since last Sat
urday with President Slocum of the Inter
national Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, who
is In New York. The superstition Of some
Is that the Union Pacific officials sought
first to deal with the three crafts, machin-
lists. blacksmiths and boileTmakers, sep
hratAy. but finding this disagreeable to the
strikers. they yielded to the only alterna-
tive Of meeting the labor leaders alto
gether. Mr.. Kline however. does not take
this view.
Mr.. Kline Eays the one point at issue
upon which there will be no compromised
the disposition OF the strike breakers.
These men must leave the shops uncondi-
tionally or there will be no abandonment OF
the strike.
IL strike is Not Settled.
1--WE will effect one OF the biggest mo-
tive power strikes In the history Of the
country" said this leader, "If the Union
Pacific fight is not settled as a result OF
49, ~ y 0Ah We navy
the moral support OF our men everywhere
and will have ample financial resources
We will be prepared to wage the war as
long as the railroads can. We must fight
this out to the finish. We cannot listen "a
compromise. We started in six months
ago to settle the question of piecework and
settle It right and we will not stop until
that result is accomplished. The life Of
our unions is at stake. II the Union Pa
ciic should win this strike and introduc,
piecework on its system, which would near
on the entire Hartman system. It would
simply be the opening wedge that woult
fatally split our organizations and admit
the Introduction Of piecework throughout
the country. And whenever hat is done
whenever piecework is In general operation
the unions are done for. Piecework is the
death knell OF organised labor"
TIL resignation Of Chairman Tweed ere
ates new interest in Omaha. Strikers con
tend that It has special significance an(
interpret Mr.. Tweed's action to indicate
the stubborn opposition Of some member
OF the Southern Pacific board to the polio!
OF the Union Pacific. 1t is believed her,
that the Southern Pacihc's avowed polio!
is TO steer clear Of any further trouble an,
by all means to see that the strike Is 20
complicated so as to involve Chat road
The only method for accomplishing thi
purpose, according to the strikers, is 70
the strike to be settled forthwith.
One OF the most conservative leaders o
the strike last night informed a reporte
for The Bee that pledges have been re
ceived from shopmen on the Baltimore I
Ohio to cooperate actively with tn
Union Pacific strikers IL they fail in thei
negotiations at New York. II already ha
been stated that the Northwestern. SAINT
Fe and. OF course. the Southern Pacih
shopmen are pledged for a sympatheti
strike II the settlement fails.