Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-22
Three Carloads of Men Received from
Chicago by Missouri Pacific and
Iron Mountain.
FOR MECHANICAL DEPARTMENTS
Walkout General on Road in 0bedi-
ence Of Orders.
TRAIN SCHEDULES UNAFFECTED
General Manager Asserts He is Fill
ing Places at Once.
TRAIN SCHEDULES UEAFFECTEl
CLAIMS as TO NUMBER DIFFER
No Disorder, Employees Quietly Lsav-
Ing Their Places aud Marching
Out of the shops of the
Company.

ST LOUIS, Oct 21-smultanously with
the walking out OF the boilermakers, pipe
men and backsmiths OF the Missouri Pa
cific Iron Mountain system today in sym
pathy with the striking machiuists the
companies received three carloads Of men
here 70 fill the vacancies The men. Il
was said, came from Chicago.
The walkout OF the mechanical workers
was general on the road. Reports today
20 the roads headquarters were to the
effect that all members Of the three unions
oboyed the orders Of their presidents
General Manager a. W. sullivan said
today the walkout will not have any ma
terial effect on the train schedules as he
was filling the places OF the who
walked out. Most Of the places Of the
striking machinsts who quit work in May
have been filled.
OffciaIs Put Number Lower.
Sullivan said the roads employ 1920 mem
bors of the unions which walked out. The
presidents of the unions maintain that
3, 200 men quit. one carload OF the men to
take the strikers places was sent TO Sc
daa Mo, where the principal shops Of
the Missouri Pacific are located
No violence is anticipated. The men
who have walked out have said they will
call out union men In the mechanical de-
ter is not settled in reasonable time.
The order to quit work was telegraphed
last night TO the boilermakers backsmiths
and pipemen by the heads OF their unions
after the machinists had failed to settle
their trouble with General Manager Suln-
van OF the Missouri Pacific. Here less
than 100 men are employed in the mechan-
ical departments and they walked out The
principal shops OF the road are located at
sedalia, Mo. and Little Rock, Ark Shops
arc also maintained at Kansas City De
Soto, jefferson city and Crane, Mo-; wich-
ita. lIoisington and Coffeyviue. Kan;
Iexarkana, Parasoud, Van Buren and
slcGhee. Ark; Lake Charles ana Teffiday
La.i Omaha, Pueblo. c9lo,. and DUBOIS, IN
Effects WIN BE FeIt.
Members Of the unions also are employed
at the ffty-two division ana terminal points
OF the line. The union men say that the
road will not be able to operate their
locomotives more than week without the
men who quit work today. They say they
are necessary to keep the engines In run
ning order and that within a week tile
effects Of the strike will be felt by the
roads.
II the trouble is not settled within a rea-
sonable time the heads OF the unions have
decided to cause a walkout on all the
Ilo Grande. Rio Grande Western, Western
Pacific, Cotton Belt and Western Maryland
railroads. The machnists trouble was
caused by demand for change in the
wording conditions.
No Disorder Reported.
KANSAS CITY MO-. Get A--'The rail-
roads shops affected are located at ST
Louis, Kansas City, De Soto, Mo-; Little
Rock, Ark; Sedalia, Mo- AJchlson, Kan.
osawatomie. kan, Fort Scout Kan, ana
Nevada. Mo.
No disorder has been reported. I'm
mediately after the strike order was re-
ceived the men left their work and quietly
marched out of the several shops.
Local officials OF the railroad said that
W to noon today the strike had not af-
fected the train service OF the road II
was stated at the office Of the local super
intendent Of machinery that. the road was
already hiring men TO take the places OF
tie strikers and that It was not expected
that train schedules will be changed on
account Of the strike.
The officials here said that the only fifty
men belonging 10 the Bonermakers', Black
smith and Pipemen's unions were employed
ia the shops here They said about the
same number went out In each OF the shops
al Atchison and Osawatomie.
Al neuaNA elHnLa -lllne bulleAiAhhef6, SeN-
enty-siN blacksmiths and twenty-three
ppemen went out Nonuhion mon will be
taken there at once TO take the places Of
this strikers.
Out at sedaIia,
SEDALIA Mo. oct, -2l-Promptly at 10
O'Clock this morning the union black
smiths, boiler makers and ppemon mum
bering iSO employed Ia the local Missouri
Pacific shops struck Ia sympathy with the
htrtking machinists. There was no dis
order here.
ln Omaha the Missouri Pacific railway
strike situation will affect twenty -one men,
on perhaps few more. Il au the helpers
so out with the men. Ten of these are ma
chinists who have been off the company
pay since the su'ike was called May .
and the remaining ten on eiovon left Thurs
day.
AS one OF the local men expressed u, this
last strike has just come al the time wher
Il will hit the company. The maehinist'
who struck last May picked a poor time
because al that time the coal miners on
tho Iron Mountain system were an out Oh
strike and the trade OF the Gould systemi
was materially less on this account on
tho other hand. the coal men came bacf
a few weeks ago, and now that trade ha,
been resumed. many OF the engines, etc.