Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-13
Proposition Now One Of Open
Shop. Employment of Union
and Non-Union Men Alike
HAYDEN TO CONTROL SHOPS
Division Superintendent Will Take
Temporary Charge on Monday--Msn
Claim Feeley Has Been Unfair, and
That His Withdrawal May Have
Tendency to Clarity Situation.

/ No satisfactory result was the out
4 come of the conference yesterday be-
/ tween General Superintendent d. c.
| Noonan, of the Iowa Central, and a
committee representing the striking
shopmen. When. told by Mr.. Noonan
/ that the only basis on which they
{, could get back to work was as individ-
+, uals, and that they would have to
make application in that way. and. not
!, as body or as union, and that
since the strike would be re-employed,
4 the men said the conference would
be useless, as they wished their union
i to be recognized.
4 This virtually makes the proposition
| one of open shop, with the company
employing union and non-union men
i alike. The company says that it is
i known by the unions at the present
/ time that in the Marshalltown shops
/ today are employed union men who are
| in good standing. They are men Of
! families, who have to work. and want
! to work There are twelve men, it is
/ claimed, from Oskaloosa alone, who
are anxious to move their families
\ here, and are only awaiting the time
when they may be assured by the
/ city that they will be protected.
Hayden in Temporary Charge.
The withdrawal Of Master Mechanic
Thomas Feeley from the shops man
agement is expected to have some
| weight in clearing UP the situation,
! according to the men. Supt. c. 8.
Hayden, of Oskaloosa, will take charge
of the shops on Monday. at least for
the present. There has been COM
plant that in the past the men could
not get a reasonable hearing when
/ they had complaints to make locally,
and it is asserted that this had a great
deal to do with stirring up the irrita-
\ ton which the men felt when they
/ struck. 1t is claimed by those who
] ought to know that the mere question
! of wages is not one on which the rail-
! road company and men would split at
! this time If other matters were MADE
right. Mr. Noonan, however, claims
he never heard Of any complaint
against Mr.. Feeley by the men prior
/ to the strike.
Try to Force M. e. st. L. WaIkout.
| Some profess to think that with
| new man in charge of the shops in
/ Marshalltown, and the matter of wages
! fixed up without trouble. other details
can be amicably adjusted so that the
strikers can be taken back as BODY.
1 The company has had more or less
| trouble to get work satisfactorily done
here since the strike, and has had 10
send away some of it's urgent JOBS. It
/ Isl asserted that freight is being de-
1 layed. unable to he moved by the
/ ron, pany. because it has not enough
motive power.
| Some of the work done on its cars
| and engines by the company since the
strike, is alleged by the men, to have
been done in the Minneapolis & st.
Louis shops at Cedar lake, MINI. This
makes a complication which is very
CALLING to the striking contingent IN
Marshalltown, and it is reported that
if this method Of getting work done IS
not abandoned, there will be an EFF
fort TO get the men. on the st. Louis
road to strike.
Go Over Old Ground. A
The conference between the men and
Messrs. Noonan and Hayden was az
iourned late Wednesday afternoon.
During the meeting the causes leading
| To the strike were discussed, and the
men made assertions that other causes
than those Of wages led up to the
strike and that some Of the working
| conditions had q bearing on the sllusa-
ton. Mr.. Noonan took the ground 1haI
/ IT there had any such violations OF
agreement as to working condltlons'
the men had never brought them up
with the company prior to the strike.
He informed them that they coulo
make application for work II they
wished to return under existing condl-'
lions, and that their applications would
be given careful and fair consideration
as fast as there were vacancies to BE-
filled.
Noonan Would Have Public Know.
1T seems to me that it would have
been better for the men to have al
lowed reporter to be present" said
Mr.. Noonan, "for with them barring
newspaper representative looks as
tho they had contention which they
could not uphold. Any assertion that
anything but the wage scale was re-
sponsible for the strike is erroneous.
The company is or was not trying 70
break up the union, nor considering the
matter of unionism at all, and any asser-
ton made to that effect is an injustice.
We were seeking, and are seeking, to
have our work done on the same basis
of pay as obtains in shops of other
railroad companies hereabouts." NJ
rs your scale the same as the av-
erage paid in these other shops?'
THAT is a question can not answer
fatty but it is just about the same as
paid by them. In some branches of the
work one road pays a scale slightly
different from another. We are paving,
as nearly as we can compute it, a fair
market price for our work. When the
strike came on we did not seek to take
advantage Of our position and the de-
preston in the times to cut the men
away down.
Said Company Wanted to Be Fair
I'VE wanted to pay fair scale but
the men failed to realize the situation
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