The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-30
BEGIN STRIKE
ON HARTMAN
LINES TO-DAY
Order IS Promulgated by the
Presidents of the Five
Unions Involved in
the Dispute.
WALKOUT WILL OCCUR
AT 10 THIS MORNING
Railroad Managers Claim to
Be in Good Position; Labor
Leaders Also Confident
of Winning Out.

~ HICAGO, Sept. 2o.-The long
threatened strike of shopmen on
" the Hartman lines. including the
Illinois Central railroad. will be-
come reality at 10 o clock tomorrow
morning. unless the men refuse TO obey
the order sent out today by the pTesi-
dents of the FIVE unions directly in
yolved
The presidents say the men have not
weakened in their desire to force the
railroads to recognize their newly-es-
tablshed Federation of Shop Employees
and that more than 90 per cent of the
men will go out.
The railroads, on the other hand, say
the workers do not want to strike, that
they have been forced into their posi-
ton by the union leaders and that a
great ma jority will refuse to leave their
work.
The railroads are In good shape 10
stand strike right now, according to
officials. 4 retrenchment order recently
issued reduced the number Of employees
nearly % per cent and there is suf-
ficient number of idle men in all crafts
to permit the roads to keep their shops
running even if all the men go out,
President Kline of the Blacksmiths ;
union, however said the men the rail
roads are counting on TO fill the strik
ers places are union men who would
refuse TO work during strike.
Strike Agreed Upon.
The strike order came after a con.
sultation over the long distance tele-
phone between Presidents Kline, Ryan
of the Carmen and Franklin OF the Boil
l. o, Is CITY md n n'('pnnaI
of the Maehinists at Davenport,
AS soon az the day and hour had been
decided upon the following message was
sent to the officers of all the local
unions affected:
"All efforts have failed Mr.. Krutt-
schuitt refuses. All crafts strike Sat
urday, September 80. at 10 a. m. Let
ter OF instructions follows. Let every
man do his duty.
The chief shops that will be affected
are in Kansas City. Omaha, North
Utah; Salt Lake City, Pocatello, Ida;
Portland. Or; Seattle. San Francisco,
Sacramento, Bakersfield, Cal; Los An
geles, Las Vegas, Tucson, Ariz.; Ell
Paso, Tex: San Antonio, Tex; Houston,
Tex; New Orleans. Beaumont, Tex;
McComb City, Miss; Water Valley,
Miss. Vicksburg, Miss; Memphis,
Tenn. East ST, Louis. H.; Mattoon,
H. Clinton. III, Centralia. IL; Chi.
csgo, Denver and San Luis Obispo, Cal
Trains Not Affected.
The strike will not affect train sched-
ules, according to c. n, Markham, pres.
ident of the Illinois Central, who said
that there were ten applicants for every
position that will be opened with the
strike
The clerks strike, which already has
handicapped shipping on the Illinois
Central and 9azoo & Mississippi, today
spread to the freight handlers in New
Orleans. lao men walking out, Three
strikers and svmpathizers were arrested
for alleged violation OF the federal in
junction and the firemen of the Georgia
& Florida railroad are out because of
the refusal OF the road TO grant a wage
increase
On the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
union men say over 1000 men are out,
Will Not All Obey.
OMAHA Neb.. Sept 29.--Announce-
ment is made that the Union Pacific has
been quietly preparing for n strike. An
old building has been equipped with cots
brought here at once from the east.
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