The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-07
NON-UN|ON men
FROM THIS SIDE
Canadian Pacific Officials Try
ing 10 Break Strike of
the Shopmen.
TRAlNMEM MAY WALK OUT
&lon puckETs PLACED, BUT NO
DEEDS OF VIOLENCE.
TRAINMEN MAY WALK OUT

, winnipeg, Man, Aug. 6.--Tonight all
the Canadian Pacific railway shops are
III darkness owing to the electricians
operating the light plant declining to
work with non-union laborers. Today
three coachloads of strike-breakers
reached here from st. Paul and Chica-
go. and these. added 10 the Japanese
used in roundhouses and Italians and
Galicians at work in other parts of the
yards. add somewhat TO the usual ac-
uvity around the buildings. Porters
on cars are now compelled to clean out
their cars, and every extra laborer that
can be utilized by the company is being
pressed into service. Seven hundred
mechanics are expected from Pacific
coast states. while the eastern shops
will draw their supply from the New
England states.
Sixty union pickets have been placed
on duty at the local shops, the COM
pany not being adverse TO passive pick
citing, which is not Illegal. At some
shops In far western cities armed po-
lice are on guard. but this is not con-
sidered necessary here. All day at the
shops everything was71s quiet as could
be. Between fifty and sixty pickets
were placed at the various railroad
terminals and in the vicinity of shops
~ meet all mechanics coming into the
wcrk for the company If they had any
such intention. j. II. McVey, local
chairman of the strikers. authorized the
Associated Press to state that he had
Information from what he regarded as
a thoroughly reliable source that a
carload OF strike-b breakers left Chicago
yesterday morning. He was unable to
state the number of men coming, nor
could he say exactly the hour of their
Sfgin will
be kept for them by pickets guarding
the 500 line and Great Northern ter
minal.
Assured of Support.
Mr.. McVey has been assured of the
support of the Federation of Labor,
and already a strike allowance has
been made by head officials of the
moulders. Single men will receive So
ger week and married men 81 during
the strike. Other branches are rapidly
falling into line. and before long every
Striker will be provided for. There is
a report that the trainmen will go out
on Saturday. This is denied by McVey,
but IL is affirmed by all the strikers
who will talk, and who assert that the
whole system will be tied up by Sun
day. Trainmen do not consist of en-
gineers. firemen and conductors. but of
switchmen. brakemen, baggagemen and
some OF the conductors. II was pointed
out that there is a federation of con-
ductors, engineers. firemen and telegra-
piers, all of whom work together in
harmony. They form a most cOnserva-
tive organization, which for a number
of years have had an ironbound agree
ment with the company. Their sched-
ules are the strongest carried by any
of the labor organizations, and il is
matter of pride with them that never
since these schedules have been drawn
have they been violated, either in the
United States or Canada. In the most
violent labor disputes these OrganiZa-
tons have stayed by their agreements,
and a feeling of mutual confidence
holds between the railroad companies
and their operating employees.
Men From the States.
\. The pickets reported that three car
Nads OF men from the states, about 800
in all. are now in the roundhouse. hav-
ing been taken in secretly in locked
cars. Regret was expressed by the men
tonight that Vice President Whyte had
gone to the west coast of Vancouver
island and will not be here for two
weeks. leaving the strike in the hands
of his assistant, General Manager G. ].
Bury of the western lines.
Word reached here tonight that the
Canadian Pacific coal storehouse was
today burned at North Bay, Ont. At
noon today at Kenro. Ont. a divisional
point east of here. a locomotive was
run into a turntable pit. and il is
claimed that the act was done by one
of the striking shopmen. The men had
brought the locomotive out of the shop
and it had been turned over to the en-
Sineer. who had placed it on a siding
in readiness to take il out on an east
no fr-lf in nurft,a
absent for a few minutes in the shop
getting something which he had for
gotten, some one sneaked up to the
engine and opened the throttle. The
siding leading up to the turntable was
open and the engine ran into the pit
The working crew was ordered out at
once. II picked up the disabled engine
and placed II back on the track. the
company maintaining it's train service