The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-04

the stockade and will remain on guarl until the strike is settled. l A statement was issued from the office l Of ". l.. Park, general manager of the | Illinois Central railroad that members of the machinists' unions in several south ern cities had forwarded petitions to the international officials of the organiza- tion asking that the strike be called of.
 Copies of the petition were made public by MT. Park.
 Union leaders asserted the petition originated in the railroad company's of- fees, and that railroad officials probably had induced a few old employees to sign it.
 The petition read:
 "We. the undersigned, ultra conservass tives and property holders, members of the International Association of Machin- ists, earnestly request that you sever all connection with the system federation, and call the strike off, or give us with drawal cards. You are well aware of the fact that we can be prosecuted under the law and our lifetime earnings taken away from us.
 to please the socialist element in our union. we never have been permitted to take a legal strike vote and if you will poll the entire system under secret ballot you will find that the majority is not In favor of the systems fedora tion.
 This whole thing has been organized by the socialists from start to finish and we are unalterably opposed to it. The machinists are good fighters for prin- ciple or real grievances, but in the pres ent case we have none of either and can see nothing but defeat in urging strike the result of which will be a repetition Of the American Railway union trouble of 1894"
 The petition. if was added. was signed by members of the local unions at Louis- vile. Paducah. Princeton, Central City, Memphis and Birmingham.
 "A representative of the railroad sent us a copy by telegraph it was stated in Mir Parks office.
 Notices Fixing Limit
 San Francisco, October 3.-Notices fixing tomorrow as the day after which no striker would be reinstated, dis played at various places by the liar riman officials near homes of the men, formed a feature of the strike situation on the Pacific coast today. Company officials state that the step was taken by many workers who regretted their action This the unions deny.
 At several places prepa rations to house and feed strikebreakers were vigorously under way. M
 Los Angeles union leaders assert that the Southern Pacific and Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and San Pedro shops together have only 70 men at work Tn place of the 1900 who quit. sasst
 Railroad officials say 600 men, all told, are working.
 Reports that two carloads Of strike- breakers were bound for Oakland from eastern polnts were deniei uy ,ss...l- ern Pacific officials A genera hoventt of the Iarriman system by all union railroad employees in opokanO IS p4s- jected. st
 1t was stated to the Assoc ed Press that union employees of the Nortlern Pacific and other railroads would not receive cars from the Oregon and Washington. Railroad and Naviga ton company. f
 General Manager Bancroft of the Oregon Short Line in, charge of all the Hartman lines between Grander. Wyom., and Sparks. Nev., and between Salt Lake City and Huntingdon, Ore, said he had 352 men at work as against 1885 under normal conditions.
 Seventy-two strikebreakers arrived here tonight from Chicago and were taken directly to the Mission Bay shops of the Southern Pacific railroad. There was no demonstration. The non-union men will be fed and sheltered within the stoclSade.
 The strikers claimed tonight that several strik ebreakers. deserted almost immediately after their arrival.