The San Francisco call., 1905-08-04
EACH SIDE SURE
Of ITS SUCCESS
Railroads Say Strike Is Al
ready Broken; Operators
Declare 1t Has Only Begun
ARE HANDLING FREIGHT
Important Trains Run Near
~ Oh Time and Shipments
VIII Be Accepted To-Day

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ST PAUL, Aug. 3.-The second day of
the telegraphers strike on the lines OF
the Great Northern and Northern Pacific
railways ended with the railway officials
asserting that the strike has already been
broken and the officials OF the Telegra-
piers Union declaring that it has only
begun. Both sides profess great satisfac-
Ton tonight and each maintains that
The struggle will be ended within fort
night.
In spite of the difficulties presented by
the Walkout of the telegraphers, the rail-
roads have been able to keep the more
important trains very near to the sched-
ules. Through trains from the coast ar
rived in st. Paul to-day on time with the
exception OF the Northern Coast limited
on the Northern Pacific, which was not
seriously delayed The time freights are
being successfully handled. The abandon
ment of a number of way freights was
the most serious disablement of traffic
to-day.
The railway officials claim that there
have been notable breaks in the ranks OF
the strikers all sthe operators on one
branch of the Great Northern in North
Dakota having gone back TO work and
thirty or forty more having signlhed
their willingness to do so. Many subsu-
tutes were placed during the day, and
men from different parts Of the country
are being examined and put to work as
rapidly as they arrive.
Reports disprove the representations of
the strikers that the freight traffic has
been completely paraIyzed There has
been much delay at many points In the
handling of local freight. but this class
of traffic is gradually being taken care
of The railroad officials say that there
is no accumulation of freight at ter
minals and that no shipments Will be re-
fused tomorrow.
Rumo1s of sympathetic strike or the
trainmeIs have been in circulation, and
although conferences have been held with
this plan in view it is declared tonight
that such move is not impending. Pres
ident Perham of the Telegraphers Broth
erhood said tonight
I'VE are-bound to win and we can fight
it out alone ! would not think of con-
senting to a sympathetic strike.
The telegraph companies are sending to
cities where they have Independent Of
fees. but communication with the smaller
towns is uncertain.
President Perham of the Telegraphers'
Union said to-day:
The full effect of the strike will not be felt
by the companies until four or five days have
elapsed.
But I am well satisfied with present condi-
tions. l am constantly receiving reports from
all parts of both systems TO the erect that
passenger trains are delayed and that freight
The stories about the men going back to
work are absolutely untrue. There has been
no break in our ranks.
There is a charge being made against US
that l would like TO contradict. 1t was said
turned their boards red: that is displayed
danger signals to all approaching trains. and
company and delay traffic. 1t was done, but
il done 10 protect life and property some
agents. or operators that We're called out would
be sure to have train orders not YET deHVered
Perhaps some of those orders could not be de-
livered for twelve hours. Now, if the men
were TO leave their posts and fail to deliver
the orders serious accidents might happen l
could not tell what operators had train orders
10 deliver so l instructed all operators to
ti1ru their boards red on quitting. This would
force the trainmen on every train to stop at
the station and make sure there were no orders
before proceeding
AS for the report that men have been
cutting the wires-there's no truth in 1t. All
our men are instructed to do nothing unlawful
BUTTE, Mont, Aug 3.-Ralph +. Spur
rier, telegrapher and formerly a mem
Der of the Mill and Smelter Mems Union
of Butte refused to join the striking
operators on the Northern Pacific road
and tonight several hundred smetermen
held a meeting and marched in body to
the depot, surrounded the structure and
pain of being escorted out of town." an
expression which is significant in Butte
circles Other operators were looked for,
but none were found.
A dispatch from Clancy tonight, di-
vision point on the Great Northern about
fifty miles north of Butte, says that the
miners there threw the operaor out of
the only boarding house in the town be-
cause he refused to stay with his COM
rades on strike. The man had to be fed
by the division superintendent in the lat
ters car.
At Basin, forty miles north Of Butte,
on the Great Northern, miners and mill
men requested a 'scabbing' operator to
cease work The telegrapher armed him
self with a rife and defied the miners un-
til about sixty gathered with long rope
with a moose in the end, when the man
weakened and several hours later left the
camp.