Strike bulletin. (Clinton, Ill.) 1913-1915, 1913-11-25

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Temple and other points reported that the oth.r
railroads were carrying out policy Of hands or
In any manner assist IN. sunset tines In The I'm !.
II was stated at union headquarters tha, In tn.
sist the sunset lines or II was found that any con.
meeting line had diverted traffic or taken any o,b.,
underhanded advantage of the strikers by relieving
the ue-up the union leaders on thos. lines would
immediately cooperate with the strikers by taking
vigorous action against such connecting lines.
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Railroad officials report that pr.yiou. Ia th
strike the company had in serVie. on the Texas
and New Orleans and Galveston division. Including
sonville. Rockland and all intermediate points m.
Following number OF employees. all members of the
90 yardmeh not Including Houston yards, ios and
Houston Yards 1ls total of SIS men. OF this
hn,no.f thefe was reported to be working sstur-
my oh.y ~ ualhmen' enginernen aud - yard
men Owing to the that the. Jurisdiction of the
htetent lodges covers different division points the
union men have not completed a register of III.
men who are out on strik.
Mig STRIKE Fssd A,sti.si~.
,, i,eanf's OF the Tour striking organizations at
in Houston banks for Immediate demand In case
IT is needed Tn" strike funds of the four orders
viii aggregate about st.5oo.0o0 available now and
the leaders say that. together. the Organization.
can assess $4,000 members In the United States
eaoh - on sh"ft notice If the emergency requires
Both union leaders and railroad official. stat
mat me men out ON strike number between 1900
anu s -'""' ", o' which number the divisions on the
sunss' Hher feI"rt the following. r and y. q.
and Galveston division. 5S5 men: Houston division
fsS men; FL faso division 2ss men. Victoria diyi-
SION 100 men; Houston yards l13 men, and Louis
lana lines about SEQ men. This makes a total of
.3s7 men out strike
The movement Of passenger trains on m. Suns,
maih lines continued slowly yesterday and last
night Train No from New Orleans due 10 reach
houston al II so y. m. was three hours and thlr,
minutes late into this city. II was imm.diat.ly
'naae up and In for the west with crew
AT o'clock this morning
Train No. 10. easth bound. Is due TO leav. Houston
for New orleans at s:3o this morning.
owing 10 the strike the train have instrac.
h'hs ~ proceed riuNlN and take chances M
10 is expected 10 reach Houston late.
The second day Of the strike the company op.r.
sted five trains In and out of Houston Westbound
train No >, due To leave here IL o6 a m LEFT
this city at a IN. instead In charge of Conduc,sr
Beck. member Of the order of Railway conductors
who remained with the company Union |. .ad,y
stated this morning that Beck would b. dismissed
from the organization for his action.
Addi'iessi ssp~rtst~aa~sss Named.
ne southern Pacific, on the other hand. Is also
piepaiins Tor any emergency. Saturday morning
Assistant General Manager q waid OF the com
pany announced that X {. Cunningham formerly
AIR brake Inspector at Houston for the lines had
oeeh named as assistant superintendent Of the
LOUISIANA lines and would have Headquarters at
Lafayette La. where he Will be in charge of
eoi.pahy property and equipment. s'--s'
He also stated that Charles X. Dodge formerly
mechanical Inspector under Mccormick at Houston,
had been appointed assistant superintendent Of the
houston division. with headquarters In San An
tonic from which point he would handle the stu-
RsssAs~sse Fsre~sa Assaulted.
by telegram received from GIidden, the first
division point between Houston and San Antonio
- was 'ePo'ted thst kouhdhouse Foreman Duncan
was assaulted there late last night for remaining
with the company. HIS condition reported TO
be serious -
NO evidences of violence have occurred at Hous-
ton or Galveston. although big demonstration was
made on HARDY street last night by strikers AMI
strike sympa thizers.
Reports received at sunset-centrai headquarters
mere indicate that at various points strikers have
started trouble. AT President SCOTS office IL wa.
stated thal idst ftEht strikers air los. IL
train No 10 at Lafayette en- route to New Orleans.
and threatened TO do Engineer Jim Clark injury II
lie attempted pull another train through Iafa
cite -
1t was also stated that the fireman on No 10
after the change of crews WAS made at Lafayette
was badly beaten up by strikers inside the Iafay.
e''e saruA Ihis fireman was taken back TO La
tayeue and was unable To make the trip
From Lafayette La, IL was reported that a pas-
senger became too boisterous and make REMAINS
defogatory TO the striking men. Sympathis.rs took
the matter up and handled the roughly, the
climax finding him rescued b, pSstanders and other
passengers who escorted him to New Orleans to
a hospital.