Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-28
Great Western Secures 800 Men
to Take Positions of Strikers
at That Place
YARDS PATRoLLED BY GUARDS
BIacksmiths and Their Helpers Go on
Strike in Sympathy With Mschin-
lists and BoiIermakers-No Trouble
MISUNDERSTANDING Will Weed
Out lncompetents.
Special to Times-R Republican.

Oelwein. Sept 2S.-Eight
! strike breakers ave been brought INTO
| Oelwein during the past twenty-tour
hours. and are being placed at work
IN tho shops of the Great Western,
where the machinists and boiler max
ers are on strike.
A train bearing $40 men from Chi
cage and points east reached the city
last evening. and $50 additional men
arrived this morning. These men are
being housed and fed in the shops
and other company buildings, and
guards are patrolling the yards, and
no trouble is therefore anticipated. Cots
arranged in the shop buildings.
Not over half the number received
and tried prove to be boiler makers
or machinists, but the company Is
wedding out the incompetents. Those
who are skilled workmen will be re-
tanned in the employ of the company
permanently. None of the strikers are
being taken back, and the company
says 1t has conclusively % the strike,
altho the blacksmiths n their help
ers joined the machinists and boiler
makers yesterday and quit work. There
is said to be no danger Of the car
repairers, truckmen or switchmen go
ing out.
The company property is being pa
trolled by special guards. and nc trou-
h1n 10 antipiputal hv thu cnrnnorv
Business Men Would Settle It.
The business interest of Oelwein de-
pend largely upon the big shops of the
Chicago Great Western road, and on
a public meeting which was held to
discuss the threatened danger to the
city If the shops should be closed or
moved elsewhere. This meeting was
largely attended by business men and
strikers. One Of the speakers vas g.
H. Phillips, who stated the object Of
the meeting by saying: that he is fin-
ancially interested in Oelwein; as Is
the case with many present at the
meeting. His idea vas that there
should be a friendly meeting, a friend
ly talk to devise means, if possible, t
further the interests Of Oelwein and
SitO AoIANSay CLlPlOSSS INV OaI OA a
strike-the railway can take care Of it
self. 1t was his idea that it might be
we'll for a committee of citizens to act
as intercessors to do something to re-
concile matters, to settle an affair that
is of vital import to Oelwein n its
people. The idea was that some level
headed citizens should make an effort
to do the square thing by the men and
see If this strike. that is threatening
the interest of the town, might not be
settled. He vas impressed with the
impending danger to the city If the
strike continues. Other cities are eager
to profit by the misfortune to OelWein,
and are endeavoring to secure a part
of the present principal industry of
this city. 1t is time to act unless W.
desire to see this place receive a seri-
GUS setback.
A committee was appointed to dis
cuss the trouble with the strikers and
a determination was evinced to afford
protection to all those who desired to
work pending a settlement Of the strike
with the railroad company.
James Sherratt, for the employees,
said that the committee of the railway
employees would meet the citizens
committee at any time, and discuss
with them the situation. While the
machinists and boilermakers did not
ask the committee to act, anything
that can be done to bring the strike
to a satisfactory conclusion will be well
coined. The affir, however, is a o n
test between the railway and it's en-
ployes, and he was somewhat in doubt
whether or not anything could be done
by the citizens committee.