Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-11
FORMER ELDoN MAN DENoUNcEs
INTERBoRouGH EMPLOYEES
WALK OUT.
STRIKERS ASK FOR JOBS

Company Says Though Service viii
! be Temporarily lnterfered With, all
Positions Are Filled.
New York, March 10.-Gratd
| Chief Stone, of the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers, today re.
| voked the charter Of the striking :
lnterborouah engineers.
| New York, March 10.-The backbone
of what promised to be one of the
most stubborn and far-reaching strikes
in the labor history Of New York IL
broken The employees of the Inter
borough company have, many Of them,
given UP the fight and applied for their
old positions. Others are contemplate
ing the same action The trains are
running almost perfectly in the SUBJ
way today and the elevated service Is
greatly improved The credit for the
settling of the strike belongs to one
man, Warren S. Stone, chief of the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers,
to which order the strikers belong.
Mr.. Stone arrived here from Cleveland
yesterday and after looking over the
l ground advised the men to return to
work.
Ask for Old Positions.
Scores of strikers appeared at the
4 Offices of the Interborough company
during the forenoon to apply for their
old positions on the road They were
told that offices have been opened up
town to receive such applications and
that all Of them must be made in the
, regular way.
Strike Practically Broken.
General Manager Hedley said 1t was
quite probable that for few days
there might be temporary interfer.
ences, but now every place on the sys.
; tenn has been essentially filed.
: Threaten to Destroy Property.
A large number Of letters containing
warnings of alleged proposed attempts
to destroy the company's property by
the use Of dynamite were received by
: Hedley today
Stone Denounces Strikers.
The most, interesting development in
the subway and elevated railroad
strike situation in New York was the
stand taken by some Of the national
t labor leaders in repudiating the action
of the local leaders, who ordered and
are conducting the strike.
: The first intimation the public had
: that the strike was not indorsed by
8 the national unions came yesterday aft
I; ernoon in a statement from Grand
Chief Warren S. Stone Of the Broth
|, erhood of Locomotive Engineers, to
s which the motormen belong. Mr..
. Stone. who was formerly Rock Is.
g land engineer at Eldon, Iowa and now
lives at Cleveland, Ohio, insisted that
}, the strike was violation of the laws
/ Of the national union, the men having
Y broken their contract with the Inter-
|. borough company He ordered the
a men to report for duty, failing which
/; expulsion from the organization is
y threatened.
!; William L. Jencks head Of the local
l. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
n declared that he did no recognize Mr..
Z Stones statement as having any infiu-
ence upon him CT on the strike.
q "Mr. Stone cannot dictate to me"
said Mr.. Jencks. "Shall he tell us
8 whether we shall have supper or not?
g The men were ordered out and are out
and will stay out until the strike is
II won. Things are going beautifully and
prospects were never brighter for us
e since the strike was begun"
= Notwithstanding the efforts Of the
. local leaders there are indications
around strike headquarters that al
!. least some of the men are ready to
y give up the fight against the company
Those who from the start were op.
posed to the strike find the actions OF
! the national leaders an excellent ex-
cuse to return to their posts. Early
last evening several of the old sub
way motormen were found in charge
of their regular trains and admitted
that they had taken Mr.. Stones ad
vice. The service in the subway last
I. Light was almost perfect, the local
trains being run during the rush hours
on schedule time. while the express
trains maintained three minute head.
way. AT no time was there anything
r resembling congestion, the usual
/ home going crowds being handled
d without single accident On the ele
e waited lines the service was not SO
s good, this, however, being due to the
C fact that the company had decided to
# first perfect the running of trains in
g the subway.
Messrs Stone and w. B. Hurley left
for Cleveland, Ohio, last night. As
S they were leaving Mr.. Stone said :"The
e strike is virtually over. We have ac
n complished our mission and are goine
or homo, well satisfied"