Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-30
Division Points of Entire Sys
TEN Are Affected By Walk
out of Eighty Men
BLAcksMITHs ARE ALSO OUT
BoiIernakers Alone Left in Mechanical
Departments of Local shops-Grand
Presidents of Organizations Author
ize Strike - eoiIermakers Not Likely
to Go Out Today.

! Immediately upon the posting Of
| notices in the Iowa Central car and
blacksmith shops Wednesday after
noon, putting in force the new wage
schedules, eighty carmen and nine
I blacksmiths went out on strike, join
| ing the ranks Of the striking machin-
| lists. The strike of the carmen affects
all division points, and kilograms to
! the committee here this morning from
all points are to the effect that all
/ the men are out. The average cut
! made in this department is 21a cents
! per hour.
The Iowa points affected by the car.
mems strike are Mason City, Hamp-
! ton, Marshalltown. Oskaloosa and Al
/ bia. In addition to these, men are out
at both Monmouth and Bartlett, Ill.
Close to forty Of the men are employed
in this city, and the remaining forty
are distributed among the other points.
J The strike affects all men employed In
! the car department, which include car
! workers, carpenters, painters. inspect
| ors, and coach cleaners.
Strike 10 Authorized.
The strike of the carmen Is not with
4 out authorization. It was understood
when Grand President P. F. Richard
son, Of the International Association
Of Car Workers, left here Tuesday
night, that no formal action toward
calling a strike would be taken until
after today, when General Superinten-
dent Noonan expected to again meet
the committee. When the notice was
posted in the shops Wednesday. before
this meeting was due. Mr.. Richardson
was so informed, and he sent reply
by telegraph calling the men out.
H All the men now left in the car
department Of the road are the fore
men, and they are looking after the
inspection of cars here.
Carmen Claim Company 10 Unfair.
H Members OF the Garments commit
tee claim that the company has not
been fair with them, because they al
lege that the schedule offered them
dates back one year from what they
claim to be the real 1906 schedule.
"The schedule offered U.S." said MEM
bers of the committee, "is really the
1905 schedule. We claim that the
schedule we are now working under is
our 1906 schedule, because it was
signed and went into effect Dec. 1,
1906. We worked under this from
Dec 1, 1905, until the shops were
burned down on Oct. 25, 1907, and all
the men who have been working since
L then have been under it until the
4 present time.
Now, there was another schedule,
dated Dec. /, 1905, which was effective
until Dec. /, 1906. We claim this to
be the 1905 schedule, but Mr.. Noonan
calls it the 1906 schedule, because we
worked under 1t for eleven months in
1906 We wanted the schedule under
which we were working up to the
strike to remain In force, and not go
| back to the wages of the schedule that
began Dec. 1, 1905.
THE carmen are the lowest paid as
mechanical department We claim
other roads in this territory, including
the Northwestern. Great Western,
Rock Island and Illinois Central. The
highest paid man we have gets % cents
and he is foreman; two others re-
ceive q, and the majority from 23M
to 20.
'There is another point, and that is
| that we have not received a raise
since this Dec. 1, 1906, schedule went
into effect, while all other departments
were raised last fall. Six days prior
to the time we had expected to pre-
sent our schedule last fall, the shops
burned, and Of course what few men
were left continued under what we call
the 1905 schedule"
BIacksmiths Also Authorized.
The blacksmiths were also author
lied in their strike, by Grand Presi-
dent Klein. The cut in the black
smith shops Is 5!a cents, from max
imum Of 41A per hour to Sc. Since
the force was reduced last fall there
were left only nine men to go out on
the strike, five blacksmiths and four
helpers In the blacksmith shops to-
day strike breakers were put to work to
take the places of some of the men.
Dunn Says Not Today.
George F. Dunn, of Kansas City, of
the Boilermakers' International union,
who is in the city, said today that the
boilermakers would not go out today,
but were waiting to again see Mr..
Noonan.
Switchmen Have No Grievance.
Members of the local union of the
Switchmen's International union have
authorized a statement to the effect
that they have no grievance whatever
against the company, feel that they
are we'll treated, and do not expect to
be drawn into the controversy. 1t had
been stated by some of the strikers
that, if the carmen struck, it was
thought that the switchmen could be
drawn in by their refusal to handle
cars on which non-union men were
employed.