The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
Assert That Strike on Har- riman System Is Not
 Probable
ANOTHER MEETING
 IS ARRANGED FOR
Nothing Decisive to Be Done Before Next Week-Kruttschnit Leaves for the East-Markham Does
 Not Answer Letters

San Francisco, September 2.-All action toward the calling of strike of the shop lemployes of the Hartman lines as a re- Isult of the refusal of the railroads to recognize the federation of shop employees
 has been deferred until next Friday, and the. representatives of the shop crafts
 who were present at the conference yes lterday with Vice President Krutschnitt lof the Hartman lines express the hope that a strike will be averted.
 A meeting of the advisory board of tho federated shop employees of the Hartman Hines has been called to convene in San
 Francisco next Friday. The board com lprises 3 members, representing the shop
 employees of all the important plants of the Hartman roads.
 Until the arrival of the members of this
 board the international presidents of the five shop crafts, who are now in San
 Francisco, will take no official action.
 They will attend Labor Day celebrations
 throughout the state and will not return lhere until Friday.
 The international presidents of the sev-
 eral shop crafts issued formal state
 ment tonight outlining the position taken lby the federation.
 The statement is an answer to that Of
 the railroads position, issued by Krutsch-
 nitt few days ago.
 The statement takes up the nine de-
 mands presented to MT. Krutschnitt and
 deals with his attitude toward them. We have the federated crafts on fl diff Iferent railroads at the present time and we find no friction whatever with the Imana agement of those various railroads" lit says, We speak especially of the
 Southern railroad and allied lines, known
 as the Finley group
 | Of MT. Kruttschnitts contention that under the federation plan trouble with enc
 craft means trouble with all. the fnterna-
 tional presidents points out that the fed-
 eration committee seeks to settle any such difficulty, but that in no event can strike
 be called except by the presidents of the Individual unions.
 ' Purpose of Federation
 ''Our purpose" says the statement, 'is
 to minimize difficulties We hope by the federation to settle then, without having our committees too often into the mana | gers office.
 ITO Mir krutschnitt's statement that l limitation of apprentices would deny 10 | aMtIlcan DpSS opportunities 10 learn d
 trade our reply is that our present con | tracts with the Hartman lines have been l the Southern Pacifcs agreement" The demand for increased wages. says the statement, would be a matter for dis
 cussion in a conference" adding that it
 is usually game of give and take 1 The closed shop it declares to be sn
 open question.
 1 As to piece work and premium system
 the international presidents declare they l do not try to cover the fact that we
 are opposed to either system and Will
 never submit to them If it is in our power 1 to prevent it.
 | "The personal and physical record sys- tenn" the statement says. gives the cfn- | ployers a chance to drive the employe to | the poorhouse," and 1t asserts that black listing to some extent is being carried 1 on today"
 I Regarding demands that the federation l have authority in the laying on and ais charging of men. it says: we acknowledge that we Intend to protect our members against malicious discharge by foremen on account of per
 sonal feeling Many man is the sub l ject of revenge"
 The intent of the federation is thus summed up:
 | "No one who has watched the history of large corporations can but recognize that | if labor does not protect itself. it will have but small share of the product. The fed eration of crafts is the only solution we
 have found to cope with federated cor
 porations'
 | San Francisco. September 2.-Thc prospects for peaceful settlement of the l troubles between the shopmen and the l officials of the Hartman lines took a
 more favorable turn today when IL
 was learned the labor leaders had again in uitb railroad brief conference between some of the international union officers and ID. 1 c. Calvin, general manager and vice president of the Southern Pacific, was | secretly held and 1t was also learned another brief meeting was held with
 Mir. Kruttschnitt prior to his departure | for the east this morning. 1 The fact that the opposing inter- | ests had resumed negotiations was
 carefully guarded and neither side
 would disclose the nature of the pro-
 ceedngs. Not all of the men compos- l ing the committee were present at the conference and although the inter
 national officers have received a vote of confidence from the men and Is empow-
 cred to act for them in regard to their demands, they wish again to canvass the situation before taking further de- cisive steps. This will be done at the general meeting here next week. full meeting of the advisory board of the federation of shop employees of the Hartman lines was called today 60
 meet in this city next Friday. It Is expected at least 35 men will be hero | to attend the meeting.
 It will be week at least, 1t Is
 stated, before the next move in the
 contest now on between the officials of
 the Hartman system and the leaders
 representing the five shop crafts who failed yesterday to induce Julius Kruttschnitt, president and general director of maintenance of operation of the railroad, to recognize the Shop Employees federation.
 Kruttschnitts departure for the east
 was scheduled for today, but the labor leaders planned to remain here for several days and decide upon the next step to bs taken. The latter had hoped they might have another conference with MT. Krutt- schnitt in this city.
 It was their purpose to summon men,- bers of the general committee from Bos- ton. San Antonio and Fl Paso, Tex, Tue son, Algiers, La, Ogden, Cheyenne. Den yer Sacramento. Los Angeles. Sparks. Nev.. Omaha, North Platte. Pocatello. Kansas City and Portland. Ore. but