The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-04
TEST Of STRENGTH
WILL COME TO-DAY
Salt Lake Shopmen Must
Come Back This Morning
or Take Chances.
STATEMENTS CONFLICT
Strikers Say Road IS Crippled,
Officials Declare All
Is Well.
STATEMENTS CONFLICT

The final test of the shopmen who went
out OF the Hartman shops on a STRIKE
last Saturday forenoon VIII be AZ
O'Clock this morning. \. r. Bre%er
superintendent Of the Utah division. has
notified all Of the men who are out that
thcy must either return by then or con
slider themselves out OF INC empioSmen,
of the company. The representatives of
the strikers say that none or tho men
VIII return. but the officials seem 10
think differently
serted Fred n. knickerbocker yesterday.
The report that four or i've engines
were taken into the yards at osusn'
deadhrad, yesterday. ts not correct. We
haven't had IA single engine reported as
out Of commission there. and even II
had il would mean nothing. as an
engine Is Liable 10 quit at any time. we
have not employed any new men. and
will not until sec whether those who
arc out will come back "Wednesday morn
ing or not
Not Fearing Trouble.
I'VE anticipate uo trouble in getting
men 10 do the work and we VII not nlre
incapable men. Every one in our em-
ploy will be protected. and the equipment
on every train that goes out VIII be IN
good condition or tho train VIII be held
than FIRST class condition.
A. r Brewer said yesterday that no
men were being asked or would be asked
To do work that was not IN their line.
The trains are running the same
schedule that they were running on
week ago" he said "and as many OF
them arc on time now as were then.
The public win see on investigation that
most OF tho trains arc iced before leav-
ing \ car may have gone out OF the
yards without ice. but this is liable TO
happen at any time. All OF the equip
Inent on our lines that is going out OF
Salt Lake City is in good repair. and no
trains Will go out OF here In any other
than hrst-clsss condition.
II vas rumorcd Yesterday that the
g. fgI oItr
with the shopmen. but an Investigation
switchmen soen In tho yards OF the Ore
gon Short Line said that II there was
any such movement they knew moth
ing OF it Mr.. Brewer said that he be-
neved the swltchDien would not go out.
ms he had been careful about having the
men do work that is their line only and
also that the switchmrn were under con-
tract TO give thirty DAYS notice before
leaving the service and that he had no
idea that they would break their con-
tract
Claims of Strikers
The strikers assert that The road IL
badly crippled and that cars arc running
without lee or water. They make sweep
ing assertions regarding the men. who are
working. claiming that the only men who
arc working arc lnoldcrs. pattern makers
hostlcrs and few men viping. They
submitted n mpsrison Of tho wages
paid on thr Denver & Rio Grande and the
Oregon Short Line Yesterday. This would
Indicate that tho first named company
paws 4 little more per hour for most of
the positions named,
There las been no report Of violence
and the officials aud strikers seem. 10 be
on good terms. tho question al Issue be-
ing merely onc ri ? difference OF opinion
regarding the recognition of the fedora
lion.