The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-07
TO
C0NFINE STRIKE
President Perham Declares No
Other Roads Will Be
Involved.
REPORTS GOING IN
TO THE GOVERNMENT
Roads Accept Perishable Freight
Today and Keep Trains
Moving.


Moving.
STRIKE SUMMARY TODAY.
President Perham declares strike will
not spread to other roads.
Government inquiry is being pushed.
Reports sent in to Attorney General
Moody.
Both roads accepting perishable
Trains are running but slightly be-
hind time.
Strikers and railroads say they are
glad the government will investigate
the strike.
AS to conditions on the lines. claims
Of photographers and railroad men con-
| No reports Of violence by the strik-
| erS. e. -.........
| President Perham, the strike leader,
declared today that it is not the inten-
tion of the Order of Railway Teleg-
raphers to press demands against other
northwestern railroads at present.
"For several years. said Mr.. Per-
ham, "there had been a movement
among the telegraphers in all parts of
the country to better their condition
and wages, particularly with reference
to: overtime Sunday work 1t is not
Giuc, uOWSNcl, GndU CuClO 10 q uOhhiC0
attempt planned to press demands
against other railroads than the Great
| Northern and the Northern Pacific. No
| demands have as yet been submitted by
telegraphers on other lines Only on the
i Northern Pacific and Great Northern
has the question been brought to an
issue. We considered the Great North
ern and the Northern Pacific as one
company, having formerly been under
the MANAGEMENT Of the same people thru
the Northern Securities company. They
are parallel roads, and it Is apparent
that strike against one alone would
be Intellectual.
GAS to what will be done in the fu-
) ture on other lines cannot be said at
present, for we do not know. But it
, is certain that no action has yet been
, taken by the telegraphers except on
these two roads. Ii the men are con-,
sidering taking immediate action on
, other lines, it has not been reported to
me-, and certainly any action they take
E or contemplate taking would be COM
municated to us at headquarters I'M
mediately.'
Scope of the Investigation.
I G.. G.. Haupt, United States district
attorney, is now on the 5 faeltc f eoast;
gave The Journal the following
statement:
~ am going to follow the, instrue,-
> lions Of the attorney general accord
1 ing to, his telegram. This will mean an
+ Investigation as to whether there is in
+ terruption Of interstate commerce or
= cutting Of wires, or Interruption Of the
u United States mail service.
|, "The Western Union Telegraph COM
y y pany has been asked! for, statement
|, at all, and all details as to any such
q interference and consequent. delay
q caused in the dispatch of public bust
o ness. The Great Northern and North
y ern Pacific railroads have, been re-
d quested for statements as to whether
e Interstate commerce is being made to
r suffer as result Of the strike. The
l. information obtained from these reports
T. will be reported to the attorney general
2, at Washington. by wire.
2 portation of mails will be promptly
IS followed by arrest and prosecution OF
o the offending parties.
It 3tThe reports to be received from the
Is railroad and telegraph companies will
l. not be made public here, but submitted
y to the attorney. general for such ae-
= ton, in view Of the facts, as he may
deem best.''
The Photographers Rights.
Mr.. Dickey, discussing the situation
, before his instructions came. said:
y "The telegraph operators, Of course,
D have right to quit whe enc W.s they
Union employs the railroad operator,
paving him a commission to handle its
q commercial business. It cannot hold
the operator liable for any delays, be-
cause he has left his job with the rail-
road. When he does leave his position,
it is incumbent upon the railroad com,
pany to see that successor is appoint
ed to his position, and any delay conse-
quent upon the failure Of the railroads
" to supply such a successor renders the
q, railroads liable.
n CIT should be remembered, however,
or that the strike order was issued in the
10 middle of the night, and perhaps the
is companies were not duly notified by
a. the operators that they were going to
Sc quit. The chance Of employing sue
W cessor Immediately was almost entirely
n. eliminated except In the larger cities.
In In this connection, however, 1t
ke should be borne in mind that the strike
order was issued, according to Presi-
ne dent Perham Of the operators union,
it because the railroads had instituted Z
MS lockout along their lines. This is q
rs mitigating circumstance so far as the
n, operators are concerned, and at least
pc in such places where they were locked
at out they cannot be held liable for any
he delays resulting from their dismissal
from the company s service. -
~, 10 Reports Going In.
e. A dispatch to T he Journal from
On Washington today says:
n Several officers of the department
le' Of justice in the northwest have re
a a Piled to Attorney General Moody in
y duiry las to effect the telegraphers
NC strike is having on government business
along the Northern Pacific and Grea'
Northern roads. The nature Of the re
plies will not be made public until Mr.
u Moody has had an opportunity to Sc,
ast +bom He 10 eynected here tomorrow. !,
ks Both Sides Want It.
me In regard to federal Investigation o.
IS the strike President n. B. Perham o.
OF the telegraphers says:
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