The Sentinel=record., 1911-10-03
CONFLICTING STRIKE CLAIMS
RAILROAD OFFICIALS AND LABOR LEADERS AT VARIANCE RE.
 GARDlNG NUMBER OUT
Strikebreakers Win Be Put to Work at Chicago, Houston and Other Points Tomorrow Railways
 Are Optimistic.

| Chicago, October 2-Statements iS- sued tonight by railroad officials and union leaders, directing the strike ot shop employees on the harrman rail roads, including the Illinois Central, positive in hs assertion that 10000 of tine number of men involved.
 According to Julius Kruttschnitt, but 1000 men left their work on the Union Pacific lines.
 J. A. Franklin, international pres ident of the boilermakers was equa ly positive in his assertion that 20,000 or more are out
 There is closer agreement be- tween the estimates of the number of Illinois Cntral strikers. w. l.. Park, general manager. estimated that 6S per cent struck Union officials Eclaim that the total is close to 90 per cent.
 There were only 1000 shopmen who were members of the federation on the 1S.0OO mEes of the Union Pacific" asserted Kruttschnitt. "Of these 5000 remained at work and we have applications from others who are anxious to go back"
 There was but one case of signi- ticant violence during the day, when police were called to quell dis turbance at the Burnside shops here early this morning. Reports from other points indicate that the strils- CTS are quiet and orderly There was not outbreak when the men quit work at Burnside tonight. | It is reported that 200 srikebreak- CTS Ohave been enlisted at Burnside shops and that others will be brought in tomorrow
 Railroad officials say they are re- ceiving ten applications for every place left vacant and that many men laid off at various points shortly be- fore the strike was called, are wi l. ing to return to work under present conditions.
 Quiet at Houston.
 Houston, Texas, October 2-Had it not been for the reports in the daily newspapers there are few people in Houston who would have known today that a strike n progress at the Hartman line railroad shops.
 There was no violence, disturb ances or demonstrations of any kind. Only in few instances were the striking shopmen seen to congregate in the streets and then only in sman groups. From the operating depart ment of the Southern Pacific and the Houston and Texas Central it was reported that all trains were moving on time and that the regular volume of traffic was being handled.
 Strikebreakers have been import cd from the north and east and these went to work soon after their ar- rival here. Over two hundred mon have been brought to the Southern Pacific shops and larger number to the Houston and Texas Central shops. 1t was reported today from the general offices Of the companies that all the carmen, forty-nine in all. reported for work this morning.
 At strike headquarters 1t was said that only half That number went back. Officials of the company state they have four men for every job that is open These have not all been brought to Houston, but are llste1 by the employment agencies of the larger cities. The officials have sent for twenty per cent more than they can use as 1t is figured fully that many will desert or get lost On the way.
 Thirty armed men patrol the prop .erty of the Southern Pacific and as many more in the Houston and Texas Central.
 TREASURY STRONG