White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-08
Hartman Lines Will EndeavOr
to Use Sherman Law Against
Leaders of federation
STRIKERS TO LOSE PENSIONS
UNION LEADERS EXERT UTMOST
EFFORTS TO PREVENT VIO-
LENCE, But RIOTS AND BLOOD
SHED HAVE FOLLOWED.

The strike on the Hartman lines
has reached an acute stage; and the
railroad officials have declared that
they will invoke the Sherman law.
Riots have been under way at Nc
Comb City, Miss, and 1t is claimed,
besides, that the striking clerks be-
fore going out, destroyed waybills
and shipping orders at Memphis and
New Orleans. Evidence, 1t is said.
is nov beng collected by the COM
panys agents, against men participat-
ing In the riots and the clerks res
ponsible for the destruction of the
official records.
Robert Lee. general counsel for
the Illinois Central, makes the state.
ment that an investigation Is being
made by the law department, and
that 1t is his belief that the criminal
clause Of the Sherman anti-trust law
has been violated. He expresses the
opinion also that the strike order
violates the civil laws, under which
the party damaged may recover triple
damages. 1t is thought that indict-
ments will be sought against the
leaders of the systems federation,
and the officials of all the unions in
volved.
The seat of the greatest trouble
has been at McComb where strikers
and sympathisers have fought pitch
ed battles with the state soldiery.
with the result that men on both
sides have been seriously hurt. The
strike breakers, there. according to
report have beaten hasty retreat
out of town, leaving the field to the
rioters and soldiers.
At midnight, on October 4th at
Houston, Tex, four guards in the
shops of the Southern Pacific were
fired upon; and one. named Tullis, is
believed to be fatally injured. 1t
was impossible to indentify the men
who fired the shots, and they made
good their escape. At Water Valley,
Miss. on the same night, Sheriff
Smith and two deputies were wound
ed in an exchange of shots with un-
known men. The officers were a
special guard at the Water Valley
shops of the Illinois Central.
At midnight on Wednesday the
time set by the railroad for the re-
turn of strikers to their work. ex-
pired; and the railroad officials state
that the men who remained out can
not return now as employees; and
that they will lose their pensions.
The leaders of the strikes come back
with the statement that this is a
bluff julius Kruttschntt. director
of maintenance and way. says that
many af the strikers have returned,
and maintains that 40 per cent of the
shopmen did not 60 out.
The strikers declare that the great
majority of the shopmen went out on
the original order. and that none of
them have returned to work, and
will not return until the demand for
recognition of the federation is
granted. The strikers at the Burn
side shop smear Chicago stood quiet
ly by when $50 strikebreakers were
marshalled into the shops, offering
no opposition. The leaders went
among the men, urging them to OBJ
serve the peace, and strikers obeyed
the words of their leaders. At Burn
side, the railroad officials have de-
clared an open shop, and have posted
notices to that effect.
In California. everything has been
peaceful up to date, and there has
been no change in the situation since
the strike was declared. 1t is claim
ed by the railroad people that many
strikers returned before the required
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