United labor bulletin., 1912-01-18
SHOP FEDERATION
EXPECTS SETTLEMENT.
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the Sweet Weekly Magazine at Chey-
enne, Wyo, relative to the derailment |
of the Overland limited near Cheyenne |
recently: THE train once considered |
the safest continental carrier, goes into |
the ditch again and Injuries twenty-five
people. Where are the government in
spectors? AS usual the railroad com |
pany had the same old story about
detective rail causing the accident. Dc |
you know what makes defective rail
Well nine times out of ten these defec |
tive rails are caused by fiat wheels |
pounding over the rails, and these fiat |
wheels are caused by unskilled and in |
competent workmen and inspectors not
being able to detect the flat wheels. A
workman who knows says that there are
no less than IT'S broken rails between
Tracy and Sidney, stations not very far
apart. Do you know what this means? ?
1t means that our laws which Will per-
NIT a public utilities corporation to do
this are painfully weak and should be
remedied. How does the strike look?
The men have it won now. The rolling
stock is about gone to pieces, sidetracks
are filed with BIO cars with broken
fianges and fiat wheels and the round
houses here are crowded with engines
that have gone to the scrap heap, the
strikebreakers have very few skilled me-
chanics in their ranks. Trainmen are
crying bitterly about the condition OF
the eQuipage. Engineers dread the sight
of the call boy summoning them to work.
and withal it is a pitiful spectacle to
see the company trying to put up bluff
of keeping up their former record, but
really knowing the hollow sham of their
pretentions. Foremen who are compelled
to push the work go about their duties
with heavy hearts. Conductors who are
called to their runs bid their families
goodbye as though for the last time.
Commercial travellers who really know
the condition of things, avoid the road
which seems accursed and it appears
but question of time until the engi-
neers and other road men, in self-protec-
ton, will refuse to work on engines
which are apt to blow up at any time OF
place AS for the strikers, it seems
funny how contented and happy they
are. It's peculiar how the money keeps
rolling in to feed and clothe the hungry,
yet in spite of these evidences that there
is a hand that is guiding and watching
over these striking shopmen, in spite OF
the fact that disaster after disaster is
falling upon the company, yet some peo-
pie refuse to believe the truth. The
truth is too plain to be overlooked. and
soon the whole world will see these un-
employed men given their rights, for
blind itself to the truth which is being
written in letters of blood all along its
system"
Los Angeles-One train brought in
eight dead engines, while a trainman re-
ports that he had six engines die on his
trip An early settlement is looked for.
Las Vegas, Nev.-Several scales"
were discharged after big drunk Sun
day of last week. Strikers in good spirits
A1oia To e. Pacific
signed up joint agreement with the
federated trades.
Salt Lake City-Smallpox has broken
out among the SCALES All must be
vaccinated.
Glenns Ferry, Idaho-Engine failures
are very common.
From every point on the system the
bulletins tell of the bad motive power; |
of dead" engines; of "scabs" fighting |
and of scabs leaving town; of delayed |
trains, and of demoralized and contested |
traffic. Following is a fair sample Of
the many kilograms received at head |
quarters:
Evanston, Wyo.-We are in the midst
of a blizzard and it ought to help our
cause, which is at the present in very
favorable condition, with matters becom- |
ing more and more demoralized on the
railroads. Passenger trains getting fur
ther behind as much as % hours late. |
Freight trains are rare and the freight
engines are kept busy hauling in the |
dead ones. On New Years night pas |
senger train had to stop at Carter for |
some time to allow the passengers to go
into the depot and warm themselves.
There are fifteen dead engines on the |
line between Green River and Ogden, |
switch engine pulled herself loose from
the tank in the yard while trying to
move sixteen cars. Something must be |
wrong with the trains or the mail, as
we did not receive any bulletins for sew
eral days. and then received bulletin No. |
II day ahead of rs.