Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-07
CANADA STRIKE
LOOKS SERIOUS
FOR RAILROADS
WINNIPEG SHOPS ARE NOW IN
TOTAL DARKNESS
OVER 5000 CANADIAN PACIFIC
WoRKMEN QUIT JOBS
strike Breakers Are Brought In--AIl
Peaceful and the Pickets Avoid
Clash, but Compromise
Seems Distant

BY Associated Press.
WINNIPEG, Canada, Aug. 6.-To-
right all the Canadian Pacific railway
shops are in darkness owing to the
electricians operating the light plant
declining to work with non-union Ia
borers.
ra5a~ three coachloads of strike
breakers reached here from st. Paul
and Chicago, and these, added to the
Japanese used in roundhouses and
Italians and Galicians at work IN oth-
er parts of the yards, add somewhat to
che activity around the buildings.
Porters on cars are now compelled
10 clean ont their cars, and every extra
laborer that can be ut1llzed by Ine
company is being pressed INTO service
seven hundred mechanics are eA-
pected from the Pacific coast states,
while tha eastern shops Will draw tnen
supply from the New Ensi@alo anu sIaee9i Iaoa5
Sixfy union pickets have been placed
on duty at the local shops, the COM
,pany not being adverse to passive
1,icLating which is not illegal At some
shons in far western cities armed
poliee are on guard, but this is not
considered necessary here.
All Quiet at Shops
All day at the shops everything was was
as ouiet as could be. Between My
and sixty pickets We're placed at the
variols railroad terminals and N the
vicinity of the shops to meet an NE NE
chanics coming into the city ana us
suade them from going 10 Worh' Il ivy
had any such intention. 49,
H McVey, local chairman OF the
strikers. authorized the Assoclatea
press 10 state that ne had information
fyon what he regarded as a thorough.
Iv reliable source that earload VI
strike breakers left Chicago yesterday
morning. ,,,,l,ar
.,f men corniug, nor could he say exaetly
4ha hour of their arrival, although
strict lookout will be kept for them pg
a;c-ets Guarding the 500 line anu
Great Northern terminal.
Mr.. MeVey has been assured OF .ns
s,,nnort of the Federation OF Lapoi,
and already a strike allowance mas mas
Sner Sllu Toade bv head officials of the
molders.
Allowances Prescribed
Sinela men will receive IS per week
and married men 81 during the strike, ,.
other branches are rapldly Ialiins iil
into line and before long every s'iiAs-
will be provided Tor. ..,v,,,,a,,
There is a report that the tralnmeh
xrill % out on Saturday. This Is ae-
nied by McVey, but it is afflrlheo py
all the strikers who Will talk anu Wno
assert that the whole system VIII DC
tied up by Sunday.
Train1nen do not consist OF ehslhr
GERS, firemen and conductors, put "a "
eyvitchmen. brakemen, baggaBeInsh
and some of the conductors. 1t was
nointed out that there is federatlon
~ conductors. engineers. tiremen ana
teleeraphers, all of whom work to-
getker in harmony.
They form a most conservative Or
ganization which for number OF years
has had an iron-bound agreement Wlln
the company. In the most violent
labor disputes these organizations have
stood by their agreements and teel-
ing of mutual confidence exists be-
tween the railroads and their operat-
ing employees.
Three Hundred Strike Breakers In
The pickets reported that three car
loads of men from the states, apou
400 in all. are now in the roundhouse
having been taken in secretly in locked
cars.
Regret was expressed by the mer
tonight that Vice President Whyte ha6
gone to the west cocst of NancouVe
island and win not be here for tw'
weeks. lEdKlnS liE 0AA M - ~
Of his assistant general manager, G. ]
Bury of the western lines.
Word reached here tonight that th'
Canadian Pacific coal store house wa
today burned at North Head, Ont. A
noon today at Kenroa, Ont, division
al point east of here, locomotive wa
run into a turntable pit and 1t l
claimed the act was done by one Q
ifhe striking shopmen. The head host
Ter Lad brought tine locomotive out Q
the shop and it had been turned owe
ITO the engineer, who placed IL on Z
siding in readiness to take it out o
an eastbound train. While the ongin
eer was absent for q few minutes L
the shop getting something he had for
gotten someone sneaked up to the en-
gine and opened the throttle.
The siding leading up to the turn
table was open and the engine ran int
the pit The wrecking crew Gran
was ordered out at once 1t picked Il
the disabled engine and placed 1t bac