Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-08-07
Officials Of Canadian Pacific
BusiIy Importing Mechanics
From United STATES; Three
Hundred Already Secured,
ABSENCE or VIOLENCE
FEATURE OF STRUGGLE
Armed Guards Employed in
Division Towns Find Little to
Do Trainmen May Go Out in
Sympathy,

IBy Morning journal Special Leased WireI
Winnipeg, Aug. 6.--Tonight all the
Canadian Pacific railway shops are in
darkness owing to the electricians op-
Grating the light plant declining to
work with non-union laborers. To-
day three coach loads of strike break
ers reached here from ST. Paul ana
Chicago, and these, added to the Jap
anese used In round houses and ltal-
ians and Gallcians at work in other
parts OF the yards, add somewhat to
the usual activity around the build
ings. Porters on cars are nov com
PEELED to clean out their cars, and
every extra laborer that can be util-
lied by the company Is being pressed
into service. Seven hundred mechan-
les are expected from the Pacific coast
! states, while the eastern shops viii
draw their supply from the New Eng
land states. Sixty union pickets have
been placed on duty at the local
shops, the company not being adverse
to passive picketing,S which IS not VI
legal AT some shops In far western
cities armed police are on guard. but
this Is not considered necessary here.
All day at the shops everything was
as quiet as could be. Between fifty
and sixty pickets were placed at the
various railroad terminals and In the
] vicinity OF the shops to meet all me-
ohanics coming into the city and dis
suade them from going to work for
the company II they had any such in
tention
w II. McVey, local chairman of the
strikers. authorized the Associated
Press to state that he had informa-
tion from what he regarded as thor
oughly reliable source that carload
Of strike breakers left Chicago yes
terday morning He was unable to
state the number OF men coming, nor
could he say exactly the hour Of their
arrival, although a strict lookout Will
be kept for them by pickets guarding
the 500 line and Great Northern ter
minal. Mr. McVey had been assured
.of the support of the federation of
labor and already a strike allowance
had been made by heads of the un-
ion. Single men will receive s. per
week and married men 81 during the
strike. other branches are rapidly
falling into line and before long ev-
cry striker will be provided for
There Is report that the trainmen
will go out on Saturday. This Is de-
MED by McVey but It Is affirmed BY
, all the strikers who will talk and who
assert that the whole system will be
tied up by Sunday. The trainmen's
organization does not consist of en-
! gineers. fremen and conductors. but
OF switchmen, brakemen, baggagemen
and some Of the conductors. II was
pointed out that there Is a e.
, of the conductors, engineers, firemen
and telegraphers. all of whom work
! together in harmony. They form a
} most conservative organization which
for a number of years has had an
l ironbound agreement with the COM
/. pany. Their schedules are the strong
est carried by any Of the labor or
ganlzations, and 1t Is matter Of pride
! with them that never since these
: schedules have been drawn up have
they been violated either In the Unit
ed states or In Canada. In the most
violent labor disputes these organisa-
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