Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-08
SHOPMEN GO FOR THEIR PAY
Strikers Call at the Union Pacific
Headquarters for Their Money.
STRIKE BENEFITS ARE PAID
Men speak Hiahly of A. L. Mohler'
Recently Elected as President
OF the Union Pacific
Has Many Friends.

Answering the advertisement that
striking railroad shopmen would be paid
for their last months work at Union Pa
cific headquarters at noon saturday
about 800 reported. AS many had gath
cred at the meeting at wolfes hall at 10
O'Clock and leaders had called up the
office OF c. E. Fuller OF the Union Pa
eific and inquired IL the notice was su-
thoriEed and finding that II was the
strikers were advised to report for their
pay.
The first official bulletin was issued
by the strikers Friday morning and read
at the meeting at VOTES hall The bull
letin sums up the situation at the various
strike centers. giving the number of men
out as reported by labor officials. In re-
gard to the Omaha strike the bulletin
states:
Omaha has in the neishborhood of $50
men out and a clean sweep has been
made in the roundhouses in Council
Bluffs. Men at both points meet quietly
every day and so far little attention has
been paid to the circular issued by MIR
Fuller setting time limit in which the
men must return to work"
Summing up tn esituauon in other
towns as reported by the strikers the bull
letin continues:
Grand Island reports a clean tieup of
all crafts; North Platte about the same
Cheyenne reports 700 employees out, about
the only ones left around the place being
some of the foremen of the different de-
partments. Trains already show the eff
fects of the strike being from two to
nine hours late"
Men Out Elsewhere.
I According to the bulletin five machin-
lists were left at work in the Kansas
City shops and of these three. or four
were nonunion. From there to Denver
on the Kansas division employees went out
at all points. At Denver seven machin-
lists stayed in, one boilermaker and one
pipeman. The rest came out, including
twenty-four out of twenty-six helpers.
Laramie reports everybody out but one
machinist, two boilermakers, two car
men. two blacksmiths and one pipeman.
leaving all told eight men at work out
Of seventy employed"
All employees are reported to have gone
out at Rawlins, Hanna, Rock Springs and
Green River, as we'll as at Ogden, Sparks,
Sacramento and Portland. Ninety eight
per cent are reported to have struck at
Los Angeles. Salt Lake, Houston and
Oakland.
No III Feeling Here.
Neither the Union Pacific nor the strik.
ers express the least III feeling toward
each other at the Omaha shops. "Presi,
dent Mohler is a perfectly square man.
SO one Of the strikers said, and what.
ever the outcome the workmen will still.
| retain their resppct for him Mr. Mohfa
has many friends among the shopmen
and can call many of them by name.
The strike has not yet affected this feel
ing OF personal friendship, and II the sit
uation settles down to an endurance test
there is no indication that the struggle
| will be considered other than fight foi
the recognition of the union
No statement concerning the probable
duration Of the strike is ventured bs
either side.
Strikers at the Omaha shops could re
turn TO their work without submitting 10
impositions from the railroad company,
as their affiliations with the union would
not interfere with their employment, but
return would necessitate the severance o.
their connection with the international
| federation. strike benefit OF So pei
week to single and s. per week to mar
rled men is being paid, according 10 laboi
officials. The cost to remain in the
union is from 81 to $3.50 per month. Fo.
the last two months, and also for Octo
Der. a special levy of $3.50 per month has
been made on all men i'm the national as
ISOLATION still at work. The dues are no
to be collected from strikers until they
have returned to work.