Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-07-22
Nonunion Men Quit Barring Cross to Seek Employ
 ment on Grand Trunk.
TO HOLD CONFERENCE
Attempt al Settlement of Machinists' Strike Expected to Result From
 Meeting in st. Louis,

That the strike of trainmen on the G"dnd TrI-' system is to have a far reaching effect i'll railroad circles was demonstrated yesterday when 30 strikebreakers at the Iron Mountain shops in Barring Cro~s took "Frcneh leave" of the shops and boarded trains for the North. It is said that move will leave today and striking ma hin lsts last night Were jubilant
 co'ncident with this development at tie shops, a well-defined rumor ant the rounds of strikers yesterday that conference of engineers and train men with officials of the Missouri Pa cific-lron Mountain at St. Louis to morrow would result in pressure be ing brought to bear upon the railroad to grant the demands of the strikers. | This conference has for it's purpose q far different object, it is said. which employees are not willing to divulge. but the strikers maintain that it can not fail to result in anything but aG- vantage to the strikers.
 Jack Buckalew, third vice president Of the Machinists' Union, and A O.. Wharton, business agent of the South western district, are to attend the meeting tomorrow and they are ox- pected to plead for the machinists.
 Many Track Men Now Idle. 1t is said that the Iron Mountain. partly as a result of the machinists' strike and partly because of litigation, | both state and national, effecting it's earning powers, has adopted strin :. : gent policy of retrenchment and is withdrawing many workmen alon.. tais division of the road. Among h ,se idle as the result of this policy, it is reinted out by strikers, are section men and repair men. Thus the tracks of the road are not receiving the at- tention ordinarily given them.
 Not only that,' said a striker last right, but the strikebreakers in the machine shops are not keeping the el- zines in proper shape Engineers and trainmen are getting restless. With scra" eEs nes running over faulty tracks they are afraid of accidents and this matter will be entered into at the meeting in St. Louis Friday
 Expect Attempt at Settlement. Following tomorrow meeting the strikers say they expect the company to make advances toward a settlement and they will look for word from Buckalew to the effect that a confer ence will be held in St. Louis between officials of the company and repre- sentatives of the Machinists' Union. There are about 175 strikebreakers in the Iron Mountain shops in Barring Cross now, it is said, not including tho"e who left for the North yester- day. The strikers confidently pre- d,ct that more will leave today and that there will be sharp reduction in the working force in the shops. The strikers are il.iormed of daings w;t.,in the shops by union ironworkers and other unio nmen not affected by the strike. One of them was quoted last night as saying that a strikebreaker had remarked:
 We are better trainmen than ,.,a- chinists and can make more money on the Grand Trunk under present conditions than here"
 Strikebreakers Ready to Leave. It is e--~o'ly understood that many strikebT 7'-'~s are willing to leav: the sho~= - moments notice. They are sele,. I at random and come frov all corr r of the country. Most ol them, i said, are rovers by nature and tAs ;ob that offers the best h. ducemen5s, no matter where it may he is what sch one wants.
 The 30 men who left yesterday weys bound for Chicago, it is understood where men are being employed by rri. yate detectives working in the wards l of tho Cro,1 Tr,,n1> rycfo,,o n.o &I o~s-