The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1912-03-29
PRES. KLINE
OPTIMISTIC
BELIEVES HARTMAN STRIKE
MNST SOON END WITH A
VICTORY FOR THE STRIK-
ERS-MANY EXPLOSIONS IN
SHOPS AND ROUNDHOUSES
DUE TO INEXPERIENCED,
CARELESS EMPLOYEES.
Brothers, Greeting:

CARELESS EMPLOYEES.
Brothers, Greeting:
The following message Of good cheer
is from General President j. W. Kline
of the Federated Shopmen:
II am arranging to start west about
Thursday and will stop at all points,
reaching the coast along ten or twelve
days. Everything looks favorable, more
so now than ever and believe we are in
better position to insist upon an un-
conditional surrender than ever, with
boiler explosions and the bottom drop
ping out of the Illinois Central stocks,
victory is ours.
Brothers, the calamity which has just
occurred in the shops at San Antonio
has brought US face to face with the un-
mistakabIe proof of the value of the
services of competent men. while we have
to deplore in a sense the sacrifice of
human life. we cannot help but linger
long are the persons in authority going
to shut their eyes to the great sacri
fices that are constantly being made in
the shape of life, limb and property in
order to beat down honest working men
and to place the brutal dollar in the
hands of avaricious phtocrats? How
long will they be allowed to employ
these irresponsible incompetent things
in the shape of humanity, that's the
question? We will wait and see how
they used on the disastrous wreck on
the Illinois Central.
"We have to call attention to the Gag
crness of one daily in circulation in San
Francisco called the Post. resorting to
the old dynamite question again with
large headliners on the leading page.
Dynamite kills workingmen. No one
can mistake their intentions to dis
credit the worllingmen's cause. They
cannot be honest when they resort to
such practices, but when we stop to con
slider that this is an s P. paper, we
could not expect anything else How
ever, the public will have to be the jury
and give their verdict whether it was
dynamite or whether it was incompe
tencv. We have had six former explos-
ions on the Hartman lines, the last of
which occurred but recently in the Los
Angeles R. H., where four lives were
sacrificed and in all cases human life has
been wiped out, not to mention the large
number of lives lost and injury sustained
by derailments. etc. due to the lack of
proper attention to the power and roll
ing stock. We have it on good author
ity and of no later date than last Sat
urdav that a similar case of boiler ex-
plosion was but narrowly averted in the
San Francisco shops when engine No.
1873 was fired mp without any water in
the boiler and had fire in her for over
four hours before discovering the dan
ger and then only when the foremans
attention was attracted by seeing the
scab about to fiji her up with cold
water. The engine is now out of COM
badly burned. Seldom a day
passes that reports Of this nature are
not received from all over the system.
Now, brothers, this should be sufficient
to give stimulus to any and all men
engaged in this great fight to still con
time and victory will shortly be in
view You have had bulletin after bul-
letin giving you detailed accounts; you
have the evidence of your grand lodge
officers who are travelling with their
eyes wide open, giving cooperative evi-
dence in regard to the bulletins and the
status and standing at each and every
point on the system, which confirm
these statements. What further evi-
dence you require we are at loss TO
The slogan is "STTCK" and
the fight is ours