The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-10-05
WALkOUT OF SHOPMEN ON ALL
LINES OF SYSTEM TO BE
CALLED At ONCE.
$4,000 MEN WILL BE INVOLVED
Decision Is Reached BY Union PresI.
dents.-Order Expected to Go Into
Effect Either on Saturday
or Monday.

Chicago, Sept. 29.-A strike on all
the Hartman lines, including the ILL.
nois Central, will be called as soon as
the presidents of the International
Shop Mems unions involved can fix
upon the day and hour, according to j.
w. Kline, president of the Internation-
al Blacksmiths' and Helpers unions.
"A strike is inevitable now," said
Kline. "Kruttschnitt replied unfavor,
ably to our final request for confer
ence, and after a talk with other union
presidents, we have decided that the
strike mus be called.
Some favor Monday as the proper
time to begin the actual struggle 9th,
ers want to begin Saturday. AS soon
as we decide that question the word
to strike will be sent to all unions"
The strike order is said to be already
in the hands of the local union heads
and all that will be necessary is the
flash making it effective. Thirty-five
thousand men, including machinists
boilermakers, car repaiters and manu-
facturers, sheet metal workers and
blacksmiths, will be affected.
I'VE have had a reply from Mr..
Kruttschnitt and it was not satisfac
tory. Mr.. Kruttschnitt insists that the
treatment of the men is such that he
wonders why they want to strike. He
does not see why they insist on rails
ing questions of new issues.
| HTho man cfop1 mn 4bo;,, fo,r,or ~
jsitions. They will not recede The
matter of wages is an after considera.
tion. The men simply are demanding
the right to deal with the railroads as
a unit, meeting them ON equal terms.
"The Missouri, Kansas & Texas line
men are out and the blacksmiths'
union refuses to work with non.union
men at their shops at Dennison, Texas;
Sedalia, Mo-. Parsons, Kan, and San
Antonio, Texas.
II believe that the impending strike
will spread to all roads in the west as
fast as the roads refuse to accept the
federation. There is a crisis between
labor and capital and it will have to
be fought out.
"The position the roads take is arbi-
trary. Mr.. Kruttschnitt writes of
good wages and the splendid pension
system of the Hartman lines. He
says nothing Of the Objectionable phys.
ical examination, the personal record
system and the rank discrimination
practiced where men with twenty-five
years service are transferred to new
shops and have to begin their senior.
ity at the new shops, where they are
likely to be laid off and the prefer.
ence given younger men,"
The number of men who will be at.
fected was roughly estimated at IS ,0O0
According to a statement at union
headquarters here the chief centers
which will be affected are: Chicago,
5000; Kansas City, Mo-, 1000; San
Francisco, 1000; Denver, 1000; Sacra-
mento, $500; Los Angeles, 1000. On
the Illinois Central lines 10000 will 70
out.
Employees Demands Rejected.
New York. - Announcement was
made by officials of the Union and
Southern Pacific railroads that they
had rejected the demands of the Fed
GRAFTON of Railway Employees on their
lines. An official statement giving the
position of the railroads in the matter
Is expected shortly.
Strike Situation Unchanged.
Mempnis.-There had been little i'm.
provement in conditions restricting the
local movement of freight resulting
from the strike of the Illinois Central
railroad clerks. Switchmen refused to
handle cars without routing orders and
cars for other roads and belt lines
ale not delivered. A carload of strike
breakers arrived here yesterday from
| Chicago.