Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-08-08
LIMITED TRAINS
DROPPED while
STRIKE LASTS
Northwestern Reduces Pas
senger Service Until SettIe-
ment Is, Reached-Freight
Tieup Complete.

The second sections of No. 2 and
No. y, the eastern and western
limited, the finest de luxe trains on
the Northwestern system, were cut
off yesterday morning. They will
not be restored until the strike is
definitely settled. The other sec
tons will not be decreased but later
some of the Pullmans may have to
be dropped. \
The situation at the Northwestern
roundhouse in Council Bluffs yes
terday afternoon was acute. Gen
eral Yardmaster Stryker and Fore
man Mccall of the roundhouse
have been doing all of the engine
work required for the operation of
passenger trains, assisted by Yard
master Hathaway. Yesterday after
noon Mr.. Hathaway, working in the
coal chutes for nearly 20 hours
straight, succumbed to the strain
and fell unconscious. His physician
said he had been overcome by the
heat.
Foreman Mccall, who worked 4S
hours without a break when the
shopmen first quit, attempted to re-
peat the performance but nature
rebelled and he went to sleep. Dur
ing the afternoon a company official
at Chicago stopped at the round
house and when he realized the sit
uation at once went to work coaling
engines and getting them ready for
the passenger service. He is the
only helper of General Yardmaster
Stfyker.
The Wabash shopmen who went
out Saturday night returned to
work yesterday morning. and it was
said the outlook for the resump-
ton of the freight train service was
excellent. No freight trains were
moved, however, during the day.
Yesterday morning new phase
was added to the railroad labor stu
alton when the Missouri Pacific shop
men and switchmen failed to report
for work. There was no strike. 1t
was simply a case where the men
were not on hand to operate switch
ing and freight equipment. They
gave no reason for their action and
refused to say whether or not they
were acting on orders.
Missouri Pacific passenger train
men remained on their jobs and
these trains travel on schedule.
The failure of the Missouri Pa
cifc shop and switchmen has Sc
riously complicated the situation on
that road. In the Omaha terminals
a number of the grain elevators are
located on Missouri Pacific sidings.
The failure of the men to report
to work has temporarily put that
road out of business so far as hand
ling grain is concerned. The same
condition prevails as far as the
bringing of freight into the city is
concerned.
Union Pacific men are all at work
in the shops and yards, and so are
those of the Burlington, as far as the
lines west of the Missouri river are
1t is reported that in the Burling-
ton shops in Iowa and Illinois some
of the men have gone out, but at To-
cal headquarters nothing is known
as to the number of the strikers.
At Fairbury, Neb., machinists,
boilermakers, coppersmiths and their
helpers as we'll as car repalrers and
laborers of Nebraska division of the
Rock Island quit work Thursday at
a. m, pending settlement of wage
differences between labor organlza-
tons and railroad management. The
present schedule provides for\ me-
chanics eight hours work at % Cents
an hour. Helpers draw 4oH cents
an hour, and demand IS and on
cents. Car repairers get So and ask
for Is cents.