Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-08
CANADIAN PACIFIC
STRIKE UNSETTLED.
Is a Strain on Both Sides, Each
Making Claims and
Bluffng.
PLENTY OF UNSKlLLED MEN
Many Officials and Clerks I'm Winnipeg
General Offices In Yards Doing
Strikers Work.

winnipeg, Aug. S.-Fifty more non.
union workmen we've taken TO the
Winnipeg shops OF the Canadian Pa
cific railway this morning and put to
work. The company has perfected ar
engagements for housing and feeding
1000 men In the yards A special po-
Hceman on duty in the yards was brut-
ally assaulted by an unknown man
with a club last night. A number of
Winnipeg strikers have been rebuked
by their executive officers for publicly
jibing at a workman who had refused
to join the strike. They had carried
banner bearing the word "scab' and
mad followed the man home
The company has received many ap-
plications from new men for work in
shops and the officers claim the strike
Will result in nothing more serious than
temporary inconvenience. The men on
the other hand profess TO be confident
OF success, II is accepted as a fact
In business circles that 1t will be a
fight to finish.
The company is maintaining
special police force and the men are
pCketing the system at all important
points Many officials and clerks in
the Winnipeg general offices are out
in the yards clad in overalls doing
some of the work of the strikers One
of the men who walked out Thursday
stated that one of the foremen was
placed between the men and was sim
ply being forced to quit work They
received an ultimatum. warning them
of the consequence 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 they refused to do
so. Foremen working under existing
agreement that men earning SIPS per
month could not be forced out, are
still at their duties. All have been
Informed that in the future there
would be no promotions from the ranks
and that all appointments would be
made from technical schools and that
toremen who went out would not be
taken back.
The officers of the railway are be-
sieged by unskiled men seeking for
work, but they are not the kind want
ed The company is relying principal
ly on a large contingent OF British
machinists and boiler makers expected
here at the end of next week. A few
foremen were put at work today. All
Of the foremen were working late into
the night The general opinion at the
companys headquarters is that the
strike is already practically defeated
II is said that the company VIII not
be too anxious to give employment to
the men who have deserted IT, Many
OF those now striking were making as
high as 800 a month and even more,
while the strike pay amounts to SIS
per week for unmarried and SIS for
married men. The company set four
Japanese at work yesterday in the
Lethbridge, Alberta shops. There are
700 disabled cars in the yards in west
ern Canada. Several locomotives are
being assisted by auxiliaries. one OK
press train had TO drop one express car
because the engine power was insult
ficient.
A special from Fort William says:
"A rumor that the Canadian Pacific
shed men may go on n strike is per-
sistent thaugh 1t is not anticipated
there will be any immediate action rs
there is no rush OF freight business Ii
they do go out II will Ia all probability
be trouble entirely separate from the
mechanics strike and will he for
straight increase in pay. Truckers are
at present getting for day work, liza
cents per hour and night work 90
cents"