Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-08-31
ROADS PREPARE
TO RUN TRAINS
Claim Is Per Gent Capacity
Day Of Wa|kOui.
1OOPER CENT BASIS IN 80 DAYS

Companies Will Refuse PershabIe
Freight and Live Stock First Week
of Trouble-WiII Spend 100000
Santa Fe Has 4,5oo Applications for
Work.
Chicago, Aug. 30.-"Trains will be
running on a 100 per cent basis and
the railway strike, if one is declared,
broken within thirty days. The roads
are willing to spend $2,00O,OO0 or
, more to end this strike"
This was the assertion made in Chi
cago by man in close touch with the
intentions of all of the railroads en-
tering this city, if members of the
railway brotherhoods walk out
Every railroad in Chicago is pre-
pared for a strike, according to this
authority, who for safeguarding reas.
ons would not allow his name I'd be
used.
Plans Laid for Emergency.
'"There is not a railroad entering
Chicago" he continued, (which has
not plans laid for any emergency
Men have been conditionally employ
ed, and it is not the intention Of any
line to allow its trains to be tied up
completely.
present indications are that each
railroad entering Chicago is prepared
to continue at least % per cent of
its train service, passenger and
freight, from the hour the strike is
declared This service will be increas-
ed from day to day until at the ex-
piration of thirty days it is believed
the strike will be broken and the
roads all doing their usual business
Believe Unions Mean 1t.
"The railway unions may consider
that the railways are unable to do
this; that they are making a threat;
or place other interpretations on such
statement, but the lines have not
been asleep. The railway officers are
confident that the union heads are
not bluffing. They are confident that
when they say they will strike if their
demands are not met they will do it.
Therefore the preparations have been
made to keep these valuable proper
ties from lying idle.
"The plans of the railroads are
first to start emergency trains. These
will probably be a combination of
freight and passenger service The
trains will carry at least two passen-
ger coaches, one freight car and a
milk car. Preference will be given the
transportation of foodstuffs and there
is little likelihood that there will be
any freight hauling of other kinds
during at least the first ten days of
the strike, if it comes"
Road Has 4,50o Applications.
F. H. Appleton, chief operating Of
ficer of the Atchison, Topeka & San
to Fe railway, declared that 4,5O0 ap-
plications had been received from
men willing to operate trains on
these lines in case of a strike. The
advertisement for help was inserted
on June q.
Stand by Arbitration Idea.
ALI of the railway chiefs, according
to one Of their spokesmen, have de-
cided in determined fashion to stand
by the principle of arbitration, and
because they will not stand for the
discarding of this principle they
would rather see strike than give it
up.
Besides being willing to expend 81
100000, the roads, it was announced.
are willing to lose an equal amount
of business or more to break the
strike in the time they say they can
do 1t. The principal officials of the
road, some of whom are now in Wash.
ington, are keeping the telegraph
wires hot with messages of instruc-
ton as to how business shall be
handled in case of a strike and they
have declared that the union heads
will finch within ten days of the
break in relations.
Sante Fe to Refuse PerishabIe Stuff.
Atchison, Kan, Aug. 30.-The Atch-
ison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway
placed an embargo on shipments of
all perishable goods and live stock,
effective at once, according to a
statement issued from the office of ]
R. Koontz, general freight agent. The
order also states the company will
not take responsibility on other
freight Shipments