The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-30
GIGANTIC STRIKE WILL START TODAY Union Presidents Issue Call for 10 O'clock This Morning ROADS IN GOOD SHAPE lTwenty-nine Cities All Over the Con- tinent Will Be Affected By the Strike Order-Will Not
 Affect Schedules

i Chicago, September 29-The long threat ened strike of shopmen on the Hartman l lines, including the Illinois Central rail road will become a reality tomorrow morning at 10 O clock unless the men who have twice voted to strike refused to obey the order sent out by the presidents. | The union presidents say the men have not weakened in their desire to force the railroads to recognize their newly es- tabished federation by means of strike and that more than 90 per cent of the men will quit work
 1 They say the fight is likely to prove | long drawn out.
 The railroads on the other band s2s | the workers do not want to strike; that they have been forced into their posi- l ton by the union leaders. and that a great majority will refuse to leave their work as ordered. | The railroads are in good shape to stand | a strike according to Chicago officials l A retrenchment order recently issued re- duced the number of employees nearly 2o per cent and there is sufficient number of idle men in all branches to permit tfe roads to keep their shops running even if all of the men go out they say. | This was denied by President Kline Of the baclsmiths who said the men the railroads are counting on to fill the places of the strikers are union men re- gently laid off and will refuse to work during a strike.
 The strike order came after telephone consultations between Presidents Kline of the blacksmiths here, Ryan of the car men and Franklin of the boilermakers at Kansas City and OConnell of the ma chinists at Davenport.
 President O'Sullivan of the sheet metal workers, who already had agreed to the time, left for Pittsburg, from which point he will conduct his end of the fight.
 As soon as the date and hour had been sent to the officers of all the Chicago unions affected:
 "All efforts have failed. Mr. Kruttsch- nitt refuses. All crafts strike Saturday. September 30, at 10 o'clock in the morn ing. Letter of instructions follows Let every man do his duty"
 The chief shops which will be affected are in the following cities:
 Kansas City, Cheyenne, Pocatello, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Fl Paso. New Orleans, East St. Louis, Centralia, San Luis Obispo, Ogden. Portland, Sacrament to, Las Vegas, San Antonio. Beaumont. Vicksburg Mattoon, Chicago, North Platte, Salt Lake City, Seattle. Bakers field, Tucson. Houston. McComb City, Memphis. Clinton and Denver.
 The strike will not affect train sched- ules, according to c. II. Markham, pres ident of the Illinois Central, who said there would be ten applications for every position to be opened by the strikers.
 The clerks strike, which already has handicapped shipping on the Illinois Cen tral and Yazoo City and Mississippi Val ley in the south. spread to the freight handlers in New Orleans, 100 men walking out The strikers and sympathizers were arrested for alleged violation of the fed eral injunction.
 The Georgia and Florida railroad firemen are out because of refusal of the railroad to grant wage increase. On the Missouri, Kansas and Texas union men say more than 2O0O men are out.
 New Orleans, September 29.-All is in readiness here for the general walk out tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock -~-~~--~--~--~- >------>-
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