The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30
THEY ALL GO OUT
General Strike on the Harrf-
man Roads Is On.
Four Thousand Men Quit Work
at I. C. Shops.
ALL ALONG THEiLINES
WalkOut Extends to New Orleans
and San Antonio.
No Disorder Is Reported at ANY
Point Yet.

Chicago, Sept. 30.-Reports early
this afternoon indicate the order for
strike for shopmen on the Illinois Cen
trail and Hartman lines set for 10 a.
m. had been obeyed generally by the
men. With some of the points at
which large numbers of men are en-
ployed not heard from, approximately
10000 men in the chief cities were
known to have left their work to en-
force their demands for recognition of
| their federation of shopmen.
No disorder was reported at any
point.
Chicago, Sept. 30.-Four thousand
men employed in the Illinois Central
shops at Burnside walked out at 10
o'clock today obey1ng yesterdays
strike order. Two-thirds of the police
department here were held in readi-
ness for fear of an outbreak.
There was no signal given when the
hour arrived. AS soon as the clocks
showed 10 O'Clock the employees be
gan to walk out groups of twenty and
thirty men quitting together as they
finished their individual tasks. There
was no demonstration.
The village of Burnside, 8 miles
south of here, is populated almost en-
tirely by railway shopmen. Nearly all
the men who walked out went right
to their homes.
There were no strike breakers at
hand and although the company is re-
ported to have a force of recruits in
Chicago, the men thought they would
not be taken to the works until to-
morrow.
One hundred and fifty locomotives
in the course of repairs are in the
shops and more than 500 partly re-
paired cars are in the yards. The
first handicap to traffic is expected
tonight, when the engines are brought
to the ash pits. The men say there
will be no one to handle them and the
engines will not be ready for use to-
morrow. julius Kruttschnitt, vice
president of the Hartman lines, who
will represent the Hartman lines in
all negotiations looking to end the
strike returned here today from New
York.
There was delay in the delivery of
the order to the machinists and the
men in the machine shops had re-
cefved no notification to strike at 10
o'clock. They quit work with the 9TH
ers, however, but remained within the
stOckade.
A telegraph messenger bearing the |
order was stopped at the gate by the |
railroad police who prevented the de- |
livery of the message.
An open air meeting will be held |
later in the day.
Mr.. Kruttschnitt said that he had |
neard nothing from railroad O1f1c1aIS /
in the south and west and that he
would make no statement before Mon
day.
Strike Order Generally Obeyed.
San Francisco, Cal, Sept. 30
While definite figures are not forth
coming as yet from either side, the
strike order for the shop employees of
the Hartman system, which became
effective at 10 o'clock, appears to have
been generally observed. A few of
the old employees at the various shops
remained at work. but the great ma
iority of the men quietly packed their
,ools when the whistles announced 10
clock, and walked out of the yards.
There was ne disturbance at any point
and the striking men did not linger
about the yards.
Railroad officials reiterate their pre-
1iction that service will not be i'm
paired. Union officials have little to
;ay beyond the statement that the men
nave held together and generally
,beyed the strike order.
All the California shops heard from,
including Los Angeles, Oakland, Sac
-amento and Fresno, were promptly
abandoned. At Oakland the switch