The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30

-@-C41 WOAl OQl sympathy.
The shops at Portland, Ore, are not
open on Saturdays and the strike order
was without effect there.
Along the Lines.
Kansas City, Sept. 30.=AH of the
one hundred carmen in the local shops
of the Union Pacific railroad quit
work promptly at 10 o'clock this
morning. A strong high fence, built
six years ago, surrounds the shops
here. Union men say tracks have
been cleared within the enclosure to
make room for bunk cars.
New Orleans, Sept. 3O.-At the AL
giers shops Of the Southern Pacific
railroad $50 union employees affiliated
with the federation obeyed the strike
order at 10 o'clock today.
The clerks employed in the freight
OFFICES OF the road will consider the
strike situation at noon.
New Orleans, Sept. 30.-At the local
Illinois Central shops 115 additional
employees walked out at 10 o'clock
swelling the number of all striking
shopmen and clerks of the Illinois Cen
tral and Yazoo & Mississippi Valley
roads here to 1,50O
East st. Louis. ILL.,. Sept. 30-The
strike order was anticipated by a large
group Of Illinois Central shopmen who
left their work at $3.50 o'clock to be
followed later by their fellow workers.
At 10 O'Clock the remainder of the 500
employees here laid down their tools
and left the shops.
Guards were posted about the plant.
Houston, Sept. 3O-Between /, 200 and
1,500 men of the Hartman lines in this
section of Texas obeyed the strike call
at 10 o'clock today, quitting their work
promptly at that time. There was no
disorder. The Southern Pacific shops
had been previously closed.
Memphis, Sept. 30.-Strike leaders as
sert that the remaining shopmen and
freight handlers of the Illinois Cen
tral and Yazoo & Mississippi Valley
1T-rq q6e
at 10 a. m. The other workmen struck
with the clerks last Monday. Thirteen
hundred men are now out on strike
here.
ly at 10 o'clock the mem bers Of the
federation of the employees of the Tlli-
EOis Central and Yazoo & Mississippi
Valley railroad quit work here. Six
boilermakers, machinists. timers, pipe
workers, coppersmiths, painters and
car repairers went cut.
Denver, Sept. 30.-One hundred ma
chinists and rs carmen, employees of |
the Hartman lines here. quit work at
10 o'clock today in obedience to yes
terday's strike order. There was Lo |
demonstration nor disorder.
San Antonio, Sept. 3O--Five hun |
dred men employed by the Southern |
Pacific railroad went on strike here at |
10 o'clock this morning. No disor-
ders were reported.
Managers Are Ready.
Chicago. Sept. 30.-With several hun
der of the 10000 shop employees of the
Hartman railroad commissioned to
strike at 10 o'clock today union Off
GERS went to work early today to per-
feet their plans for forcing the rail-
roads to recognize the recently organ
zed federation of shop employees.
While railroad officers declared that
he strike order, telegraphed yester-
lay to 25 division points on the various
ines, would not be unanimously obeyed
union leaders said that the men were
lnder pledge to strike by a referendum
vote taken sometime ago and that they
to see all union mechanics
If the railroads involved on the war
path before night.
Managers of the railroads asserted
hey were ready for the strike if one
must come 1t was said that several
thousand men had been discharged re-
,ently to cut down expenses and that
most of these men would be glad to
'eturn to work. Leaders of the fedora
ed employees declared that the roads
we're not in a good position to with
tand a strike and that once the men
vent out. the struggle would be short
md victorious for the federation
Two thousand employees of the Chi
ago shops of the Illinois Central rail-
Dad at a mass meeting last night de- {
ided to obey the strike order. Many
eft the meeting with the avOwal that
hey would not even report today to {
wait the official time set for striking.
The strike order included all the ma {
hinists, boilerrnakers, blacksmiths. /
armen, sheet metal workers and other i
imilar employees. The men were IN +
tructed to be orderly and refrain from S
living the railroads grounds for in
unctions. AS engineers, firemen and 7
rainmen on the Hartman roads re- t
eived increased wages recently they
robable would not consider going out i
n a sympathetic strike, it was said =
'raff1c would not suffer were all the q
hopmen on strike. railroad officers i
ay.
julius Kruttschnitt, director of main +
snance and operation will take charge {
f the situation for the railroads on r
is arrival today from New York.
Came without Dinner Pals.
Chicago, Sept. 30.-When the four
thousand shopmen employed by the