The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-05
WOMEN MAY BE
STRIKEBREAKERS
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and are supplied with money to assist
the members. They take receipts for
al cted IN nea manner he
expenses Of the strike are considerabl
for the strikers as well as the roads.
It requires 5000 day for telegraph
tolls at the st. Paul headquarters
alone.'
Another Report of Violence.
It is reported that two operators at
Perham, Mimi, "were driven out OF
town last night by a mob armed with
guns" 1t is claimed by the road that
the division superintendent was unable
to secure protection for the operators.
roads insist that they are able to han
die their business and that next week
everything will be as usual. 1t ls
claimed that there is no old freight at
Staples or Fargo as reported.
The strikers assert, however, that
freight is being transferred to other
roads at intersecting points. They Wig
orously declare that next week will see
a complete tangle rather than any i'm
provement. Assistance is looked for
from labor organiza tions in the west in
the matter of freight and passenger
boycotts.
To Guard ''Con's" Cash.
Detectives may accompany passenger
trains going out over the Great North
ern and Northern Pacific roads from
now on. The closing Of the stations has
made it impossible to get tickets in
tho small &c q raSnlt the
ductors collect cash fares on the route
and by the time they near the end of
their runs they have several hundred
dollars in bulky coin which they fear
will attract the attention Of the crooks.
AS this is the time of the year that
the "con' men begin to flock to the
northwest, the conductors fear that an
attempt may be made to hold them up.
All trains leaving the city are looked
over by the regular police and if any
well-known crooks are on board they
are locked up for safe keeping.
Aid from Trainmen.
A development in the telegraphers
strike, favorable to the strikers, is the
issue of orders to the conductors and to
the locomotive iremen to keep out Of
the trouble. In other words they were
instructed by their chiefs to do their
own work we'll, but not assume the posi-
| lions of others, OF to assume the re-
sponsibility incident to direct telephone
orders
| In reply to message from President
H. B. Perham, E. E. Clark, head Of the
| Order of Railway Conductors, directs
that the members must not be required
to take the place of striking employees
in other capacities They should take
telephone orders wherever that was the
practice before the strike. Where the
practice did not obtain they should not
be required to receive orders direct by
executed orders from any agent Of the
company, without regard to the means
of transmission thereof.
President Perham said: cit is well
known that especially in the movement
OF gravel trains and many of . the
frelghts, orders have been received di
rectly by the trainmen from telephones
The above order will cause prompt
cessation in the movement of this class
of trains.''
W. s. Stone, grand chief of the Loco
motive Engineers, has instructed his
members to perform only those dutie!
winch belong to them as engineers, JUS
as before the strike began
Unions Asked to Act.
1t was reported last evening tina
Samuel Gompers, president Of thu
American Federation of Labor, had is
sued instructions to the other labor or
CARNATIONS of the Great Northern an(
Northern Pacific to take action in be
half OF the telegraphers.
Union labor meetings are being ar
ranged from Headquarters at the Hote
| 1tYlS po1,1
be held tonight at Tacoma to discus
matters in which locomotive tireme1
are interested, particularly the tele
phOnlc movement of trains.
Perhams Report.
President Perham' g circular issue,
last night reads:
Seventeen scabs went west on 1913
pm. train Thursday. Not one had
clearance, or any sort Of personal record
Dirty, unkempt individuals with dishon
, esty written clearly on their coward
features. They came in coach with tn
doors locked, herded like cattle and leere
at by onlookers all the way from Chicag
to St. Paul. ~ w..
J. Two scabs unloaded at Detroit, two q
: Winnipeg Junction, one non-telegrap
clerk at Frazee, one non-telegrap phi, cler
at Perham, one non telegraph clerk {
Ferndale. Let them alone. they will d
us no harm. Drunkards, embezzlers an
incompetents should be left strictly alon
because they are filling chairs that pei
haps might be filled in course Of time b
l better men and they will help us instea
: of hinder US. The men that this organ
: zation cannot afford to admit to men
9 bership, no railroad can afford to en-
4 ploy. There is reason for everythin
S Cbut the actions of some general mar
t ! agers). Let them find out by experiene
: what these reasons are.
z a. Says Men Are Returning.
= The statement of General Superb
L tendent G.. T. Slade of the Great Mort
:, ern is to the effect that, owing to di
+ satisfaction at numerous points ov
e the manner in which the strike W
called, applications are being receive
d from men who wish to return to wor
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