Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-10
THREATEN STRIKE ON
ALL HARTMAN LINES
LOS ANGELES LIKELY TO BE
BACKED IN DEMANDS
Division PRESIDENT of Union viii Take
Drastic Action If Request of the
Local Boilermakers Is
Not Granted

Nearly 800 boilermakers, members OF the
international Brotherhood of Boilermak-
ers and Iron Shipbuilders of America, are
on strike and have refused to return to
work until w. H. Carter, foreman in the
local shops of the Southern Pacific, is
removed from his position.
Edward Payne president of Division 9
of the Boilermakers union, the division
in which the local shops are situated,
arrived in Los Angeles from San Fran
cisco last night and issued the following
statement:
Nearly 500 men are out at present, and
if our demands are not granted every
union boilermaker in the shops of the
Hartman lines will be called out ON
strike.
There are flfty-six men out in Los
Angeles. OF this number forty of the
men are owners of their own homes,
while only two of them are unmarried
Demands Reasonable
"Our demands are reasonable. All we
ask is that Foreman Carter of the local
shops be placed in some position where
he will be unable to abuse the men and
work to their disadvantage. His actions
have forced a number of the best boiler
makers in the land to leave their posi-
tions in Los Angeles
1--WE do not ask that Carter be dis
charged. All we want is to have him
put some place where he cannot make
things so unpleasant
1.-The boilermakers throughout the
country stand ready to join us as soon
as we call for their aid. AS proof of this
I received this telegram from George F.
Dunn, president of the division in which
Kansas City is located:
Kansas City. Mo-. Aug. 9.
Ed Payne: Notify officials of Southern
Pacific railroad that If request of boiler
makers is not carried out we will call
out men on all lines that Hartman has
anything to do with running from Cali
fornia to New York. We cannot stand
to have one of Harrimans lines in
trouble and the rest working. What
concerns one concerns all. Let us have
an answer to this inside of twenty-four
hours, as if this request of District
is not carried out we will do business.
We will take drastic measures. Answer.
GEORGE F. DUNN.
'I will interview the officials of the
railroad tomorrow" continued Mr.. Payne,
''and If they refuse to grant our de-
mands will telegraph Mr.. Dunn. He will
probably call out all boilermakers work.
ing on the Hartman lines, while the
members of other unions may be called
out to aid u.s."
Many Locomotives dead"
Last night men connected with the
local round houses of the Southern Pa
cific reported that they had many dead
engines on their hands.
With no mechanics working at undoing
the mischief which happens to all loco
motives in constant use there is nothing
10 DO but to switch these disabled mon
sters on sidings till the strike is settled.
The principal trouble results to the
fues but every part of the big machines
is liable to get out of gear at any time
and place. The system is practically at
the mercy of it's engines and these are
at the mercy of the men who keep them
in repair.
1t was reported at the Los Angeles
headquarters last night that desperate
efforts are being made TO get general
mechanics to the shops to do what they
can toward repairing the engines that
are now out of service. AS all shops
are affected each yard must look after
its own local repairs.