Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-05
PROBABLY IT WILL BE LONG
Draymen Waited Outside to Car
ry Away Tools Blong-
ing to Men.
Company's Side In Hands of General
Manager Berry, Who Thinks
He VIII Win Out.

winnipeg. Man, Aug. 5.--The big.
gest labor dispute which the Industrial
history of Canada has known cuInin-
ated today in the form of general
strike when the employees OF the me-
chanical department of the Canadian
Pacific railroad from the Atlantic coas,
TO the Pacific coast, some 5000 in
number, laid down their tools and ouit
work because the decision of the con-
citation board which was appointed
under the Lemlneux act of the Can
adam parliament was not in accord
with what they wanted. Not merely
IN the number of men involved is the
magnitude of the walkout indicated but
in the fact it involves greater financial
interests and covers more territory
than any strike which has heretofore
been recorded in railroad circles.
The local end OF the event is repres-
ented by the cessation from work of
some one thousand men who were en-
ployed in the Winnipeg shops. Nearly
half of the men involved are on west
ern sections of the road, the exact
number being $500.
The total number of men on the
western lines is $500
The total number on the eastern
lines is $500 The total number on
the Canadian Pacific railroad system
is 5000.
WITHOUT DEMONSTRATION.
Winnipeg. Aug. without any de-
monstration hundreds of the employees
of the Canadian Pacific shops here
walked out this morning at the signal
for the laying down Of tools, being the
the blowing of the shops whistle. Out
side large number OF draymen waited
to carry away boxes OF tools the men
| evidently believing that the strike
would be prolonged.
| One hundred men, mostly fremen
| and apprentices remained in the shops.
Second Vice President Whyte who
has been to SkagwaN is hurrying
home. He will be at Vancouver today
| The management of the companys side
| OF the strike is now in the hands of
! General Manager Berry who claims he
| can pull out successfully.
Eighty men went out at Kenna, lao
at Ignace, and co at Moose Jaw. Four
hundred men went out of the Canadian
Pacific shops in British Columbia at 10
o'clock. 70 in Vancouver and others
went out at Laggan, Nelson ana
! Cranbrook. All OF the men are shop
] hands. such as machinists, boiler
| makers and the allied trades.
OUT AT LONDON.
London, ont. Aug. Sin response
10 the call for strike over 100
| mechanics of the Canadian Pacific
Railway company struck here this
morning.
! ORDER EVERYWHERE OBEYED.
Winnipeg, Aug. Bell Hardy, head
of the Canadian Pncific Railway lines
committee wired from Montreal that
| 200 men had left their work al the
Angus Canadian Pacific railway shops
there. and that the strike order was
obeyed to a man over the entire sys-
| tenn
OUT AT VANCOUVER.
Vancouver, b. c., Aug 5.--Up to 10
o'clock the 50 men employed here in
the Canadian Pacific Railway com
panys shops have not gone out on
strike. although they will undoubtedly
do SO during the course of the day
probably at noon The men claim that
They are lighting TO establish the sta
tus of the unions The company rests
upon the position, assumed when both
the eastern ana western arrangements
accepted the majority award OF tho
cpugili3toI.v hoard