The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-26
DIFFERENT STORY
FROM KANSAS CITY
Strike Cloud Still Hangs
Over Hartman System;
Men Said to Be Taking
Secret Ballot.


Blacksmitbs union, today sent &
telegram to R. S. Lovett, presl
dent of the Union Pacific aud South
erD Pacific railroads, in New York
asking for an immediate conference
with view of bringing about settle
ment of the labor disputes which
threaten strike Of the sbopmen en-
ployed by the Hartman lines.
The message sent by President Kline
read as follows.
.'R. S. LoYctt. President Union Pacific
aud Southern Pacific Railroads, l20
Broadway, New York.
"As Mr.. Kruttschnitt has left for
the west, thereby making it impossible
TO meet him. and as the conditions are
extremely serious in the mechanical de.
partmcut and the men on the verge of
strike on the Hartman lines, which
we arc trying to avoid. I therefore re.
quest that YOU meet the international
officers Of the crafts involved in au
effort TO bring about an amicable ad-
lustment of the trouble. Please wire
j: W. Kline. International president,
5S5 Monon building. Chicago
- sec no rift in the storm clouds, y
said President Kline today. every.
thing now depends on Mr. Lovett. Mr.
krutischniit has said that he receives
his orders from the board Of directors
IN New York, so ! am through with Mr.
krmttschnitt The whole matter is now
UP 10 President I.ovctt and the board
Of directors
" Meanwhile. our men out west are
boiling hot and want ia walk out. |
haze wired them TO wait until ! see
whgt President Lovett intends 10 do.
Tho international presidents OF the
various crafts involved are scheduled
to meet in Kansas City uext Monday
Ia consider the situation. but ! am try
ing to have tho meeting place changed
IN Chicago.
Strike Last Resort.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Aug. 25.-M.
+. Ryan, international president of the
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, said
this afternoon that a time and place
Tor holding the proposed conference
between Officers of the Hartman rail
road system and the international
presidents of great shop unions would
be decided tomorrow. He believed the
difference would be held about the
middle of next week.
"Vnderstand, we are making, and
nave made. no threats to strike" said
'The only strike talk l have heard
has bccn coming from julius Krutt-
-cilnitt in the last three weeks. A
strike is always a possibility but is
10 be considered only as a last re-
sort in case the Hartman heads leave
us no alternative.
'The cone ession ne ask is nothing
but plain business proposition, such as
majority OF the big railroad systems
have already agreed 10. The idea is
10 save the unions and railroads of the
Hartman system money, time and
trouble under a plan whereby all five
unions, in treating with the railroads,
may be represented by one committee
Heretofore tho Hartman system has
shown a disposition to play one union
against the other
j. A. Franklin, international presi.
dent of the boilermakers and in charge
of the federated union Headquarters,
said tonight after long, distance tele.
phone talk with J. ". Kline, interna
tional president Of the blacksmiths, who
is in Chicago, that Kline is arranging
10 hold a conference between julius
Kruttschnitt. vice president of the Har-
riman lines, and the five international
presidents.
Earlier in the day, according to press
reports from Chicago, Kline was said
10 have declared he would not meet
Mr. Krnttschnitt, and had wired Presi-
dent Lovett OF the Hartman lines ask
ing him to meet the five union presi.
dents personally,