The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1905-08-03
BIG STRIKE ON
GREAT NORTHERN
NEARLY EVERY OPERATOR ON
LINE QUITS HIS JoH.
TRAlNsRuNrING ALL THEsAMR
Dispatchers stick 70 Posts and opcr.
ate Trains by Hand Car Signals
mo Delay az 81.
Paul.
scrlpps.McRae Telegram.

Scripps-McRae Telegram.
st. Paul. Mimi, Aug president
Perham OF the Telegrapners' union
says that the striking operators on
the Great NorIhern and Northern Pa.
ciflc are standing Arm today, obeyIng
the orders to strike last night. On
the Minnesota division the men are
all out excepC at wedena and De
troit stations. The Montana division
lis deserted except by the Billings
manager, am the Montana Central is
tied UP. The block system on the
Dakota division is abandoned. The
strikers have established headquar-
ters at division points, TO which the
men are hurrying. Despite the strike,
however all trains arrived and left
this city l..ls morning on time.
The order to strike was issued at
eleven o'clock last night, According
TO the officials OF the Telegraphers'
union, between 1900 and 1000 men
will be atfected by the order.
Handoar Signals Used,
Helena, Mont, Aug, 2.-Sixteen op-
orators, including two WIRE CHIEFS,
quit when they got the signal from
Perham. All operators on the Mon
tana Central, except the train dis
patchers, are out. All operators are
out at Missoula, where trains are be-
ing taken in on nanucar signals. It
Is reported the entire Rock Mountain
division of the Northern Pacific Is
tied up.
Operators are out on the Spokane
and Idaho divisions Burlington
train on the Northern Pacific tracks
Is tied up 25 miles west OF Butte,
where twelve operators quit. The
men assert the walk-out is perfect, ex-
cept one man at Pasco on the North
ern Pacific.
Cause Of the skfiksM
st. Paul, MINI, Aug. 2.--At n00U
Tuesday all negotiations which have
been pending between the Order OF
Railway Telegraphers and the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific rail.
ways for some time came to a sudden
end when General Manager Horn, OF
the Northern Pacific, notified the tele-
graphers Of that system that the COM
pany's proposition as to the rate Of
wages II would pay was final. and they
could accept II or leave the service.
The Great Northern officials took prac-
tically the same stand toward their
employees, thus throwing confusion into
the ranks Of the telegraphers, who
hardly expected such move.
The men claim II is lock.
out on the part OF the road
because they will not accept the terms
offered them, while the company
claims that 80 per cent. Of the men
are satisfied. In circular 70 It's EN-
ployes the company proposes sched-
ule Of wages which II claims give an
Increase TO the mnr amounting TO
10000 annually The men, on the
other hand, clal Ch5 increase
amounts TO only 81 900 or $4,000 an
nually for abont a thousand men
The only chance Of an adjustment OF
the trouble rests with President J, J.
Hill, who Is in New York, and to whom
President Perham OF the railway tele-
graphers' appealed in telegram Mon
day night Mr.. Hill was asked TO decide
questions that President Perham and
Vice President Newman have been dis
cussing with General Managers II. j.
Horn OF the Northern Pacific and r.
r. Ward OF the Great Northern. The
points in dispute Mr.. Perham declares
relate to wages only in the case OF
both roads. The orders affect about
750 operators and agents on the Great
Northern and about 1900 on the North
ern Pacific.