Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-08
.C.P. ROAD UND|SMAYED
Strike Regarded as Already
Practically Defeated.
MANY SEEK VACANT JOBS
Both Sides Confident of Winning the
Contest.
WILL BE A FIGHT TO A FINISH
Company Offices Besieged by For
eigners and Unskilled Laborers
Looking for Work.
MANY SEEK VACANT JOBS
WILL BE A FIGHT TO A FINISH

WINNIPEG. Manitoba. August s.-Fifty
more non-union men were toda. put ~
work in tho Winnipeg shops ~ the Cam
adam Pacific railway. The company has
arranged for housing and feeding l,G0
men i'm the yards special policeman ON
duty at the Winnipeg Yards was assault
ed by an unknown man with a cordwood
stick last night. A number OF Winnipeg
strikers have been rebuked by their en-
ecutive officers for publicly jibins at .
workman who had refused to join I'm the
strike. They had carried banner bear
ing the word "scab' and had followed the
man home. making demonstration
against him.
The company has received many appli-
cations from new men for work in the
shops and the officers claim the strike viii
result in nothing more serious than tenn
porary inconvenience.
The men, on the other hand. profess to
be confident of success. II Is, however,
accepted as a fact in business and finan-
cial circles that it will be a fight to u
finish.
The company is maintaining a special
police force and the men are picketing the
system at all important points east and
west Many officials and clerks i'm the
Winnipeg general offices are out in tire
yards. clad In overalls. doing some of the
work OF the strikers. One of the men who
walked out Thursday stated that the
foremen we're placed between two fires.
and were simply being forced to quit
work. They received an ultmatum from
the union warning them of the con-
sequences of their refusing to strike, and
the company has insisted that they take
positions as foremen over non-union labor
at various points along the line and this
they refused to do.
Two foremen working under an existing
q hot
month could not be forced out are still at
their duties. All have been informed
that In the future there would be no pro-
motions from the ranks and that all ap-
cal schools and that foremen who went
out would not be taken back.
Unskilled Labor Not Wanted.
The Offices of the Canadian Pacific rail-.
way are besieged by foreigners and un-
skilled laborers looking for work, but
they are not the kind of men the COM
pany wants. The company is relying
principally on a large contingent of Brit
ish machinists and boilermakers who are
expected here at the end of next week
to take the places of the strikers. In the
meantime a few more men Were put at
work today All of the foremen were
working late into last night
The company Is evidently determined tn
see the fight through and is taking steps
to secure men necessary to carry on the
shop work. 1t has received offers OF
mechanics and men from various agen-
cies. The general opinion at the COM
pany's headquarters is that the strike Is
already practically defeated.
1t is said that the company will not be
too anxious to give employment to the
men who have deserted il. Many OF
those now striking were making as high
as 500 month and even more. while the
strike pay amounts to IS per week for
unmarried and IS for married.
Roads Inactivity Alarms Strikers.
TORONTO. Ontario, August s.-The in
activity of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Company is causing uneasiness among
the strikers. The company is making no
haste to fill the vacant places at West
Toronto. but the men expect that some
attempt may be made by Monday. At an
executive meeting of the union last night
it was announced that important develops
!, ments may be expected in a few days.
the nature of which the men refuse to
divulge. While the train crews do not
relish the extra work caused by the strike
it is said the other trades are not inclined
to desert their posts for sympathetic pur-
poses.