The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-08
Omaha Publication Advises the
Hartman Employees to
Stick to Jobs.
SAYS THE GAME is
NOT WORTH THE CANDLE
Also Says That Business Men
Would Not Aid the
Shopmen.

Under the heading: "It's Not Worth
tho Price, - the Western Laborer, pub
lished at Omaha, Neb., has the follow
ing to say regarding recent strike talk:
Like a flash OF lightning from clear
sky WIS the sensational railroad strike
ten days. 1t may just be newspaper talk
and IL may really be serious. We don't
know, but on the theory that It is serious
we propose to have our say ,
ever advocated was the Union Pacific
shop strike against the introduction OF
the piece system under President Horace
G. Burt just nine years ago II was a
fight OF the shopmen. backed with the
financial assistance of the business men,
the utmost sympathy OF all trades unions,
office men, trainmen, the newspapers
and the public OF the west against Burt
and the directors in New York. The
strike lasted eleven months. the piece
system was abandoned and the unfor-
tunately constituted Mr.. Burt passed out
OF the western railroad world
Mr.. Burt was succeeded by the pres
ent head OF the Union Pacific. Mr., Moh
Ter, and the instant he got on the lob
sores and grievances against the men
who were leaders OF the strike and
everybody started in fresh, new and
clean. from BarreclouGh TO Richelieu. to
build up the old Union Pacific TO what
Ii is today
News Unexpected.
Now the newspapers announce that the
shopmen on the Hartman system are
TO 20 on strike and a list of grievances
| is printed as justification for a strike.
This unexpected strike news has been
so sudden that we had TO pinch our
selves TO make sure Il was not a dream,
The Western Laborer does not reach
the homes of the thousands Of Union Pa
coast. We never wished 1t did go much
as we do this week. We want TO help
the shopmen and their wives to do some
serious thinking right now.
We have read the list OF grievances as
published In the daily papers which are
presumed to have been submitted to the
officials of the road, and we want 10
say that we would not sacrifice the sltua-
tion OF one shopman to obtain the whole
mess from the company. except the de"
mand for an increase Of per cent;
We have seen so much suffering from
strikes that we have a holy horror al
the approach of one. The last strike OF
the Union Pacific shopmcn will be as
peaches and cream compared with the
one that is threatened. should II take
place.
Nine years ago the men had a good
cause. They were fighting for a princI-
pie. They were unanimous against the
introduction OF the piece system. They
had the moral and financial support of
the public, That is why they won. II
sounds like a dream, when We recall II.
but IL is fact that the best business
men OF Omaha contributed cash from
month to month to aid the strikers in
1923 The union men of Omaha TO a
greater extent than ever before known
contributed a weekly assessment Of 10
cents per member during all those long,
weary eleven months OF strife for the
support of the strikers and their fami-
lies. The newspapers gave the men the
best support ever given to strike In
Omaha Everything fell into the laps OF
the strikers and all the bad luck was
piled onto the broad shoulders Of the
misguided Horace c. Burt
Says Road Is Fair.
Today everything in, around and about
Omaha is shaped in favor of A. l.. Mob
Iers side The business men will not