The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-26
MADAM GOVERNMENT
AIDS GRAND TRUNK


AlUb GRAND TRUNK
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much harm. They are not the class
men who can Ill the places Of the
q on strike. Many of them are
mer employees of the road who were
charged for different reasons. Any
y. regardless OF their caliber, the
md Trunk cannot get enough OF
m to take our places"
Little Freight Moving.
freight Is still practically at q
ndstiil on the Grand Trunk lines
Canada. No freight trains have
led IN or out OF Fort Erie. one of
companys terminate, since the
Ike was started. and the same con-
ions obtain at nearly every other
mt on the Canadian system OF the
npany.
pisinterested- persons who have
siness dealings with the Grand
lnk In Detroit and who have occa-
IN TO frequent the Brush-st. station
my times day, are now of the
lnion that the Grand Trunk IL going
lose the strike. They point out that
company cannot possibly get
Png with the strike-breakers now
ting the places Of the strikers.
The company IL having sweet
ne OF II with the strike-breakers,"
d q close observer and one who Is
touch with the strike situation, at
Brush-st. station, Tuesday morn
Two of the strike-breakers were
ed' Monday night. for irregular con-
CT The company Is also finding
that many of the men hired don't
ow the first rudiments Of railroad
and are being let out as fast as
Inns can take them back to Chicago,
fence they came"
=. B. Atwater. assistant to Prcsi-
nt Hays for the western district.
mt TO Pontiac. Tuesday morning. to
Ike further efforts to induce the au-
prities to give the company better
lice protection.
In regard to the engagement OF the
tke-breakers, 1t has been said by
mpathizers of the strikers that they
build be fired" In the event of the
like being settled In reply to this
Element, Mr.. Atwater says the
|and Trunk is morally bound to keep
3 strike-breakers, as they have been
ID that they would not be let out In
&c the former employees got their
|sitions back.
1--WE shall have to keep the strike
eakers, come what may said Mr..
water Many of them would not
re with us until we gave them assur-
ce that they would be kept"
"strike Won," Says Curtis.
We have the strike won now"
nphatically stated E. P. Curtis, vice.
resident of the Order OF Railway
bnductors. when asked by The Times
the Hotel fuller, Tuesday morning,
he thought there was any danger OF
g trainmen losing out The words
Mr.. Curtis, a man Of generous pro-
prtions, standing over six feet, and
|eighing close to 800 pounds, rang
It'll indignation as he spoke.
Asked to explain how he figured out
be victory, he said:
THE strike has been on now for
ore than a week. and the Grand
FUNK has not been able to move more
Ian two per cent of its freight. The
bmpany has also been able to move
ht few OF Its passenger trains. But
yen though the Grand Trunk were
loving so per cent of its trains we
|ould still feel that we were the win
brs. The Grand Trunk, however, will
bt get back to its normal condition
fithin 10 years with the men IL now
~ running its trains. But we do not
kpect tho company to experiment
bat long with the new men, for 1t Is
|sing millions of dollars at the rate 1t
going now. SO 1t cannot afford to
b on very long at such loss. We
brtainly expect the Grand Trunk to
pine to our terms before very long.
tut III the strike Is not over within
our or five months our men will then
o to other railroads. They may not
II be able to get positions at once,
ut we'll gradually find places for
hem. And even at that stage OF the
anne we'll figure we have won. be-
ause the Grand Trunk will still be
unning at a heavy loss"
Are the trainmen likely to settle
18th a COMPROMISED" was asked of
[r. Curtis.
Want No Compromise.
mo; we want no compromise" Cur
ID replied. I'VE mean to get all we
re- after or none at all from the
rand Trunk. The road VIII have
My until April, 1911, to give us
hat we are asking, too. That IS
err cent increase that President Hays
ffered doesn't mean anything to the
rand Trunk trainmen at all, for the
eason that the pay is now SO small.
. might mean something on another
bad, like the Canadian Pacific. for In
lance. Percentage doesn't buy meat
nd bread; II takes real money to do
nat, and that's what the Grand Trunk
as got to pay.
Some people may think that II the
rand Trunk gets along without the
Id employees 1t will have scored vic.
Dry. That Is a mistaken idea. for by
he time the present men have work
d a few years we'll have them all
rganized and the road will eventual
, have TO pay the higher wages"
Don't you think the Grand Trunk
rainmen will object to selling their
ONES where they now live and re-
,oving to other places II they accept
ew positions?" Mr.. Curtis was asked.
NO" he said; 'the trainmen will
e willing to do that, knowing that
hey have really won moral victory.
hitch will also mean a financial VIC
DRY for them later on"
Mr.. Curtis went to Port Huron dur
ng the morning to confer with the
rainmen's committees there and TO