Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-07
H500 MEN ON STRIKE
AYERS PIERCE; ZOO
OUT, SAYS PENNSY
President Of Brotherhood's State
ment and McCaleb's Do
Not Tally
TO USE FURLOUGHED MEN
Superintendent States Others Will
Take Place of Those Who
Leave Service
10 USE FURLOUGHED MEN

". H. Pierce, president of the Broth
erhood of Federated Railway EN-
ployes, announced at noon to-day tha
$500 men in this section were oil
strike because of failure on the par
of the Pennsylvania Railroad to rec
ognize the Federated Brotherhood.
w. 3. McCaleb, superintendent O.
the Philadelphia division of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, said 200 men are
out at Harrisburg and Enola and tha
enough men are now on furlough tt
take the places of the strikers.
Shortly before noon to-day fifty spe-
cial police officers from Columbia
went to Enola where they have been
assigned to special duty at the shops
and roundhouses. Special officers and
those on the regular force are sta
toned about the local shops and
roundhouses, and orders have beer
ISSUED to allow no person on railroad
property who has no right to be
there.
Employees who quit work at noon
to-day under orders from w. IL.
Pierce, the president, came from all
branches of the Pennsylvania railroad
and included shopmen, trackmen, car
|repairmen, inspectors, watchmen, en-
|sine cleaners machinists, boilermakers,
flue cleaners and laborers.
Hundred Men On at Noon
orders were issued last night to quit
at noon to-day and as soon as possible
to report to President Pierce at head
.quarters, 1334h North Sixth street.
. At l o'clock 100 men had reported.
president Pierce said that Enola re-
ported everything tied up there and not
IN wheel moving. He aNerred that by
4 o'clock this afternoon he will have
|fhe names of $500 members who have
Iauit work. Mr.. Pierce said:
Every employe to n man at Wilkes
IRarre is out, Sunbury employees are
Mt for the second time this week and
Nltoona does not have more than one
third of the employees working. BY
6 o'clock this evening every trackman
between Trenton and Pittsburgh will
he out and by noon tomorrow the
entire system of the Pennsylvania
Railroad will be almost at stand
still"
President Pierce. who remained at
headquarters all day and received re-
ports from various cities by telephone
hnd telegraph, announced that a meet
ing of representatives of all transpor-
tatiOn brotherhoods had been called
FOR tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock
at the Federated headquarters The
men on night duty will hold an after
noon session and those on day duty
will meet at night. Each brotherhood
will be asked to appoint a committee
TO confer on the question of a SYM
bathy strike. President Pierce further
stated:
What Pierce Says
Nobody feels sorrier than | do for
he calling of the strike. ] did not
sleep all night. We were in session
here until 2 o'clock this morning and
not until the final refusal came from
General Manager S. G. Long to meet
with our committee did we decide on a
strike. My first thought is for the
transportation hrotherhoods, whose
members will suffer.
The whole upshot of the thinp is
hat the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany wants to force recognition of
heir Mutual Benefit Association, All
hew employees must sign with this new
organization in preference TO the relief
department. There is no question that
he company wants to wipe out all
)rotherhoods," he continued.
we want to be eminently fair.
ieneral Manager Long could have
avoided the trouble he has brought on
his company Pierce went on. we
Ire going to he orderly. | have re-
luested every man to keep out of the
saloons and not to loaf about street
Formers. i also wish to warn the
people of Harrisburg to lock- their
toors and windows at night. The
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company has
Fent to Harrisburg a hundred or more
Fpecial officers-"bulls. as thev are
better known-who are nothing else
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