Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 31, 1916, Page 1

Part One NEWS SECTION PAGES 1 TO 10. VOL. XLVL—NO. 69. RAIL EMPLOYES - WHO WALK OUT WILL BE FIRED Be Discharged From | Employ. crat candidate for congress to PLACES WILL BE VAGANT; To Forfeit All Seniority and Other Rights and Privi- leges Now Held. TAKEN ON AS NEW MEN Chicago, Aug. 30.—President E. P.| Ripley of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe this afternoon issued a statement to employes of the road no- | tifying them that the positions of | those who fail to report for work next Monday will be declared vacant and that employment of new imen will be permanent, barring ill-behavior. Mr. Ripley’s statement to employes | of the Santa Fe it is said, will be fol- | lowed in substance by presidents of other roads. It says: ] “All Employes: You are notified | that the Brotherhoods of Engineers, Firemen, Conductors and Trainmen | propose to leave the employ of the | company in a body. To the extent | that this is carried out it will auto- matically throw out of employment | persons connected with the company | CALIFORNIA WOMAN CANDIDATE OFFICE—Mrs. Josephine Marshall Fernand is the demo- opposing the incumbent, Congressman Julius Kahn. Trainmen Who Go on Strike OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 31, FOR FEDERAL represent the Fourth district, « MRS JOSEPHINE TIARSHALL FERNAND, ©/NTL. FILr? SERYICE. Paris, Aug. 30.—The city of Drama, in northeastern Greece, has been | seized by the Bulgarians after a battle with the Greek garrison, telegraphs in other departments. It is, therefore, important that a full understanding | of the conditions be set forth at the | outset. You are advised, therefore, | that: | “1. All employes employed by the | company failing to respond to the call | for duty will be considered as having been discharged and will be re-em- ployed only as new men, forfeiting all | seniority and other rights and privil, | == S cges. | 2. New men taken in by the mm-:BULGARIAN TROOPS pany will be retained so long as their | services are satisfactory. | “3. Men remaining in the employ of GAPTURE DRAMA‘ the company will be giver the prefer- | cnc:lof positions, other things being |- | equal. . | i | 4. Those who may be temporarily Urbek, City. unk. Mines rons‘ thrt;wn1 oufl Ioi employment through Scventy-Five - Miles North- no fault of their own will,be consid- niki Taken. ered “d ab_slfm o:; vfu:aticn without paL, OF Akl . ,nk pay and will not forfeit any sion or insurance rights” . . FIGHTING IN MACEDONIA| The presidents made the trip from S | Washington to Chicago on a special train.. Those in the party included E. P. Ripley, president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; A. J. Earling, president of the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul; Louis W. Hill, president ' the Athens correspondent of the Ma- of th:1 Great Northern; R. H. Aishton, | i, president of the Chicago & North-| - . 4 . - western; H. R. Curry, president of|, The dispatch says tl\a\} dix: l;ulgark‘ the Monon, and W, G, Baird, presi- ians captured three forts and took| dent of the Chicago & Alton. | prisoners the Greek garrison of ]')0\, “We have no reason to believe oth- | men, and that a number of soldiers| erwise than that the brotherhoods will | were killed, ” This news is confirmed, | make good their threat to strike on dds, by refugees | Labor day,” said Mr. Aishton. [the correspondent adds, by L Mr. Ripley, representing himself | Who have reached Athens. t and the others, made a statement to| Sevene fighting is in progress on| ”IIC pughc ;"‘]""i"g prlospbecti\'c ““"“thc Macedonian front. The war of<: clers that delays might be expected | .. : ¢ e o c| and notifying shippers of the freight {fice report of today says the “’““‘I embargo. | gained ground west of the \'ardar‘ “It will be the purpose of the com- |river. Bulgarian attacks west of Lake | pany,” says the statement, “so far as|Qstrovo were repulsed by the Ser-| is in its power, to provide such trans-|pians. portation as is necessary for the = The entente allies hombarded Bul- health and subsistence of the com-!garian positions on the Struma front munities dependent upon it, to move jand near Lake Doiran: Violent ar-| at least one train ecach way daily for |tillery fighting continued in the re- the transportation of passengers, mail gion of Ostrovo and Petrenik. and express. | Strike of Freight Ha'ndlers Averted the Bulgarians have been occupying | for the last fortnight. There have | Chicago, f\ug’. 30.—A general strike [been other reports of fighting be-! of 6,000 freight handlers, affecting |tween Greeks and Bulgarians, but the practically every railroad in Chicago, | French war office on Friday last set for today, was averted this after- | stated the Greek garrisons at Kavala noon when the Chicago, Rock Island |and Drama were still in possession of & Pacific railroad agreed to the de-i“‘e towns and had not been attacked. mands ofthe uniog for permission to | It was announced at Athens last week collect dues on company property, the | that Germany and Bulgaria had given point at issue. a written understanding to (,re(:rc‘ g that their troops would not enter Ka- 7 vala, Drama or Seres. Drama.is one of the printipal towns |in northeastern Greece, seventy-five I miles northeast of Salontki, in the dis- | trict east of the Struma river, which | e The Weather zMinneapolis Mills Will Close Soon as For Nebraska—Fair. 5a 6 a [ . FRLR Strike is Started 9 a mx: a Minneapolis, Aug. 30.—Every flour RERL mill in Minneapolis will be closed | :l; thirty minutes after the order for a 3y nation-wide railroad strike becomes \ lf“ effective, according to an announce- ' ;7 ment today by the Washburn-Crosby P 76 company. | e 8 R “All the mills in the city are filled Comparative Loeal Record. to capacity and with no available stor- 1916, 1915, 1914, 1913 - { No. 514 Fighest yesterday 32 34 age space and no way to move the The heads of the brotherhoods say | ™% "\' wion, sseratary.treasurer and Resuming his itinerary, Mr. Hughes Lowest vesterday 4“4 87 &4 | output, it will be necessary to discon- any court order directed against them clpher correspondent, Divislon No. §14 will go to Denver, Topeka, Kansas Bsan temparatisy ;» i3S Mlitinue operation immediately the with a view to u_rr\'rnlmgl a. strike (8" G Yort, chairman of the local commit- City, reaching St. Louis Saturday. He pltution . o e, 5. | iy, 3 K . b Ciemperaturs and precipitation, depar- | strike order becomes effective, said ' would be m_cimnw for the r‘l‘cfa")“ _J. M. Vernon, chief conductor of Diviston | will stay in St. Louis Sunday tures from the normal: an official of the company. that the strike order has passed from | no. a5 | B o = Normul —_—— their hands and they have not the ‘-V G, Vr\'rll.\;‘nln‘ secretary-treasurer of Di- | eculators 0 e ! ' power to recall it B Al | S 1 t t votal C S C. Mecomber, cipher correspondent of | oast Artillery ) e e | Defioi 09 inch | H et ——————eens T i ‘ iram W, Johnson T - Impressed b Totul rain 11.42 inches B d f T i Troops on Border Paralysis Epidemic ‘ = : iixcess for cor. yeriod, 1916.... 0.3 inches | N d f S t . . Of R 1 d St k Ui oo e S| Duty Ordered Home ameda 1or senatvor Is Again Increasing allroa rike o e 8 ifo. Bain y — New York, Aug. 30.—The confi- e ’ ‘ " of Weather. 7p m. est. fall San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 30.—“We [dence of health department officials| New York, Aug. 30.—In the face of he , cloudy [ 66 22 | ‘ashi A 30.—Tw b At § csilies S F T o S et b " 221 Washington, Aug. 30.—Twenty have done the impossible politically, that the epidemic of infantile paraly-|countrywide preparations of railroads Den oudy 8% b o1 | eight companies of coast artillery o day by | 518 was under control was shaken to-|to meet the threatened strike, dealers | Des Moines, part cloudy 80 K8 0 | troops, approximately 6,000 men, now | said a statement issued here tod 35‘h) day by another increase in the new |in the railroad sccurities on the Stock| ;"'dd-vmn'r'y iy o 2 o0 |on border duty as provisional infantry Governor Hiram W. Johnson, claim-|cases reported. There were eighty-|exchange did not take the situation ST T T 70 70 4 units attached to the mobile army, ing victory over Willis H. Booth of nine, agaiust seventy-three yesterday.!seriously today. Prices were de- North Plat loudy .... 7 3 R ) 3 ) Omaha, cloudy 1 o 01 | were ordered back today to their|Los Angeles for the republican nomi- | The deaths were twenty-two against | pressed at the outset, but there were e e A UL no | Posts in the Eastern and Western de-| nation for United States senator. The | thirty-two yesterday for the twenty-|sharp and general recoveries hefore Santa Fe, clesr T 7 o0 |partments. More than 10,000 addi- governor's supporters estimated his | four hours ending at 10 a. m. There |midday. Rails and United States | bRt s it H) 0| tional national guardsmen, ordered|plurality at 15000. This was not con-|has heen a steady increase in the num- | Steel were well supported. Senti- Rjoux ity, cloudy 9 Valentine, cloudy ;" 52 h L. A. WELSH, Local Forecaster, iplace of the artillery troops. WEST ROADS FACE STRIKE OF SHOPMEN Twenty-Two Lines Threatened With Possible Walkout of Their Employes. TAKE BALLOT VERY SOON St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 30‘,—'1‘wcnty- two large western railroads, ‘it was learned here today, are facing a pos-| Men departments are sible strike of shop employes. in the mechanical | preparing to take a strike ballot Sep- tember 9 if negotiations fail for al wage increase of 5 cents an hour and an eight-hour day. Among the roads affected are the Wabash, Missouri Pacific, Iron Moun- tain, Missouri, Kansas & Texas; St. Louis & San Francisco, and the St. Louis Southwestern, all of which have their general offices here. Brotherhoods Say Clayton Law Bars Court Injunction Washington, Aug. 30.—The injunc- tion issued in Omaha, which probably is the forerunner of others, brings up squarely for the first time in a labor dispute the effect of the Clay- ton anti-injunction law. Brotherhood leaders say injunctions are in direct violation of the law. Its constitutionality never has been test- ed, but the present crisis may bring one about. The section which the labor lead- ers say protects them from injunction against calling or enforcing a strike follows: “No restraining order or injunction shall prohibit any person or persons, whether singly or in concert, from terminating any relation of employ- ment, or from ceasing to perform any work or_labor, or from recom- mending, advising or persuading oth- ers by peaceful means so to do,....or from peacefully persuading any per- | son to work or to abstain from work- ing, or from ceasing to patronize or to employ any party to.such dispute, or from recommending, advising or persuading others by peaceful and lawful means so to do. or from pay- ing or giving to or withholding from any person engaged in such dispute any strike benefits or other®moneys or things of value, . . nor shall any of the acts specified in this para- graph be considered or held to be vio- lations of any law of the United States.” made no claims. ~ U.P.RESTRAINED - BY COURT ORDER Judge Sears of District Court Issues Temporary Restrain- ing Order Forbidding | Them from S8triking. FINAL HEARING SATURDAY | Conductor Bx;és Suit in Behalf | of Himself and Fellow i i ‘ Workers. |TO ASK FOR FEDERAL AID | i =2 Union Pacific railway conductors | will not be allowed to strike. When suit was filed yesterday | morning by, Edwin A. Hamilton, a | conductor on his own behalf and in ‘bvhalf of all other conductors simil-| | arly situated, it took Judge Sears just| | thirty minutes to grant a temporary | restraining order preventing a walk- tout. The hearing is set for Saturday | morning at 10 o'clock. The injunction | reads: | “It is ordered that the defendants |and cach of them, in their individual | capacity and in the capacity of offi- | cers of the Order of the Railway Con- | ductors of America, as well as their | successors in office and all persons |acting for them or in conjunction | with them, be and are hereby restrain- | ed until the conclusion of the hearing for a temporary injunction, from in- augurating, declaring or calling or {carrying on a strike of the members |of the Order of Railway Conductors {employed by the Union Pacific rail- | road, and from. issuing, circulating or promulgating said strike order, from expending any of the funds of the or- !der or any other moneys in the con- |'duct of said strike and from doing anything or taking any action what- ever in the furtherance of the strike, Officers of the conductors’ order are restrained from taking steps to expel Edwin A. Hamilton from the order | by reason of bringing this action.” Conductor Hamilton, in the com- | plaint, makes the officials of the or- der the defendants in the action upon { which Judge Sears bases the restrain- |ing order. Cause of Action. The suit is basea on the alleged fact that according to the constitu- tion, which is the organic law of the | lorder, the president of the order is | authorized to call a strike on any line | of railway if two-thirds of the mem-| bers employed on that line have voted in favor of the strike, but that less than two-thirds of the members of | the order employed on the Union Pa- cific railroad voted in favor of the strike. The strike was declared, ac-| cording to the petition, upon a sec- tion of the statutes of the nrdrr: which was amended at the recent ses- sion of the grand division of the or-/ der held at St. Louis early in May, and provides that in a general or con- certed wage movement if two-thirds of the membership employed on the | lines of the parties to such a move- ment vote in favor of striking, a strike may be ordered on all lines, regard-| !less of what may be the result of the | | vote on any individual line of railroad | linvolved. It is contended that this provision of the statute is in violation | of the constitution of the order. Mr. Hamilton recites in his petition the advantages accruing from his membership in the order and his de- sire of remaining a member, and don- | tends that if he refuses to go on a strike he will forfeit his membership | lin the order and his rights and bene- | | fits accruing to him from such mem- | | bership. He further states that in the 'event he does join in the strike he| | will lose his position with the Union | | Pacific, his seniority rights and his | | right to a pension. Judge J. J. Sullivan a | Hamilton. | Defendants in Case. | | The following are made defendants: A. B. Garretson, president of the Order of | Rallway Conductors. Charles H. Friday. chairman of the gen- eral committee of adjustment €. 8. Hoffman, chairman of the local committes of adjustment of Division No. 126 on the Union Pacific { W. 8. Fox, chief conductor of -Divislon No. | 126, ! F. Peterson, secretary-treasurer and | cipher correspondent, 1 R. E. Woodworth, chairman of the local committae on adjustment, No. 514 | F. P. Drelbus, chief conductor of Division ppeared for | :,.(to the border recently, will take the|ceded by the Booth adherents, who|ber of new cases reported since Sun-|ment in financial and industrial cir- | day. | all sides. ! can work out a settlement. 1916.—TWENTY-FOUR PAGE! S. On Trains, at Hotels, Newn Stands, etc,, S Summary of Strike Situation Judge Sears issues restraining order to prevent conductors of Union Pacific from striking. Hearing set for Saturday morning. Railroads prepare to ask for federal injunction if trainmen strike Monday. President Wilson will make an effort to have the railroad brother- hoods call off or postpone the order for a general strike of train em- ployes called for Monday. Unorganized employes of railroad companies protest to President Wilson against action of brothgrhoods. Many roads have issued embargoes against the receipt of all freight, and it is predicted that it will be general within forty-eight hours. New York milk companies are arranging line of motor trucks to bring milk to the city in case rail traffic is suspended. New York police department will take charge of distribution of fuel and food in case situation becomes acute. ' Minneapolis flour mills will cease operations as soon as strike order becomes effective, Senate committee on interstate commerce will hold public hearings Thursday on strike bills suggested by President Wilson. Each side will be given three hours, U. P. EMPLOYES SEND PROTEST T0 WILSON Petifion to President Says the |Railroads Send Notice That All | Brotherhood Leaders Are ‘ Drunk with Power. {FLAUNT PUBLIC INTERESTS | AR | The following petition from Union | Pacific employes, signed by Ira A.| Stevens, chief timekeeper; M. M.| Lesher, department inspector, and | Daniel Foley of the local freight house, constituting a committee pur- ported to represent 80 per cent of the employes of the Overland system, has been telegraphed to President Wil- son: i “We note with much disappoint- ment and many misgivings as to our | own future and as to the future of the public generally that notwith- standing your urgent personal appeal the four leaders of the railroad broth- | erhoods have refused to hold even | temporarily the strike call, which they have ordered to go into effect Sep- | tember 4. By this action thesc four leaders not only flaunt the interests of 80 per cent of their fellow em- ployes, but they flaunt the interests of tne general public, they flaunt your own personal appeal, they flaunt the | congress of the United States, which | is now endeavoring under your lead- | ership to solve this problem and as nearly as possible bring justice to Don’t Want Strike. “From our daily association with | members of the enginemen and train- men's brotherhoods we are con- vinced that individually these men do not want to strike. They voted for a strike because the ballot was so | fixed that there was no opportunity to vote for arbitration, “Many of these men have grown old in the service and have the best positions that wage carners can se- cure. They own their homes and hold enviable positions in their communi ties. The only reason any of them would go on strke would be because the four leaders in Washington had | ordered it. “We are calling this to your atten- tion for the purpose of urging you to appeal to the 400,000 members of the rank and file of these unions to re- main at their posts until congress We feel | sure that if you wwill personally ap- peal to these men over the heads of | their leaders, who are drunk with power, you will find an almost uni- Vi 1 response. These four men are leading 400,- 000 to destruction. They cannot ex- pect public s,\mpalhy if they ignore public interests.’ Hughes Will Not Change Plan for a Week in Mountains Estes Park, Colo, Aug. 30.—The threatened railroad strike situation will not hasten the departure of Charles . Hughes from here, accord- ing to an announcement made today It was said Mr. Hughes will leave at 2 o'clock tomorrow for Loveland, Colo., according to schedule, where he will meet Governor Carlson of Colorado and deliver an address at the Loveland fair cles was reported less pessimistic, EMBARGO IS PLAGED ON ALL SHIPHENTS Freight Will Be Handled At Shippers' Risk. ASK AID OF THE COURTS “Instruct all agents as follows: Notify all regular shippers that, cffective at once, all sRipments except live stock and perishable freight will be accepted without liability for loss, damage or de- lay on account of strike, Stamp or write on all receipts the fol- lowing: ‘Received without lia- bility for loss, damage or delay by srike! Procure stamp if pos- sible. “Live stock and perishable freight will not be accepted for transportation if same would' not arrive at destination on our line or connecting _line, on regular schedule, on or before Saturday,’ September 2, and shippers should be notified accordingly. Notify connecting lines that no live stock or perishable freight will be ac- cepted from connecting lines un- less same would arrive at desti- nation on this line or connecting line on or before September 2. “Effective with this notice, ex- plosives will not be accepted for movement from local stations or connecting lines.” The foregoing, which is officially designated as an embargo, has been issued by all of the railroads oper- ating in and out of Omaha. It is the | first public move upon the part of the railroad officials that they recognize the possibility of a strike of the rail- road trainmen being called next Mon- day morning. The embargo notice is uniform'ghe country over, it having been agreed upon by the railroad officials, Prepare for Strike. With the issuance of the embargo order, railroad officials of the exccu- tive, the operating and the traffic de- partments are busy in an cffort to counteract the effects of that most of them now admit is cer- |tain to come next Monday, In the Union Pacific headquarters officials of the legal department la- bored all Tuesday night, working on two phases of the impending labor trouble. The outcome of one of the phases developed when officials ap- peared hefore Tudge Sears of the dis- trict court and secured a restraining | order against the company conductors to prevent them from going out on strike, The second phase of the legal prop- osition is one in which all of the rail- roads will join and when the time comes will find its way into federal court. In reference to this proposi- tion, no action will be taken until the men walk out, in the event they do. Then, if they go out, a blanket injunction will be sought, restraining trainmen and other railroad employes who are out on strike from trespass- ing on railroad property, from inter- fering with the movement of trains and from interfering with men en- gaged in the movement of such trains Up to the Government. If the restraining order is granted i and railroad attorneys say that it will be, the whole proposition will be in the hands of the government and the striking employes of the railroads will be amenable to the provisions of the federal laws. It is asserted that in event the men out on strike should interfere with the men operating train, or should they molest, or attempt to molest railroad property, or trespass on rail- road grounds, United States marshals would take charge of the situation In the event they should be unable to cope with the difficulties that might arise, the federal soldiers would | be called. The assertion is made that now that the state troops have hecome regular soldiers, they would be brought back from the Mexican border and dis- tributed along the railroad lines and at terminals and at such other points where their services might be needed. While railroad officials assert that the application of such drastic meth- ods is not anticipated, they want to be rcady for the emergency in the event it should arise. the strike | . Will Lose Jobs THE OMAHA DAILY BEE THE WEATHER FAIR SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. !Judge Sears Issues Order to Restrain Conductors’ Strike; . President Asks that Strike Order Be Recalled at Once; Railroads‘Put Embargo on Shipments of All Freight (CONDUCTORS OF WILSON MAKING EFFORT TO DELAY RAILWAY STRIKE President Attempting to Post. pone Suspension Until Con. gress Can Consider | Issue. | BROTHERHOODS SAY NO Officials Insist That Only a Settlement Oan Prevent the Men Striking Monday. SEE SECORETARY WILSON Washington, Aug. 30.—With both sides making last hour preparations morning, President Wilson today turned all the influence of his admin- istration toward persuading the hrotherhood leaders to postpone or rescind their strike order until con« gress has had an opportunity to act, | There were intimations that should the labor leaders continue firm, Presi- dent Wilson even might make a public appeal to the railway workers them- selves to direct their leaders to poste pone it, Despite denials of the labor leaders that President Wilson or anyone else had asked them to postpone the strike, there were abundant evidences that such was the case, and somehow there was a feeling in congress, in ad- ministration circles and in other places that a way would be found to avert the walkout. No one knew what it was, but the feeling grevliled. After a conference with Secretary Wilson at the Department of Laber, the brotherhood leaders reiterated that no other power on earth except ahsaiis)';cluryd s;ulu;:enthv?uld avert the strike, and that they had no 1to rescind. the order. vafllm a postponement, Omaha Injunction Discussed. The first legal phase of the situa- tion developed with the temporary in- junction issued by a local court in Ne- braska restraining the conductors from calling or enforcing a strike on the Union Pacific. This brought up for the first time the effect of the much discussed Clayton anti-injunc- tion act passed by congress at the be- [ hest of labor. The brotherhood lead- ers unreservedly expressed the | opinion that the injunction was con- travention of the law and could not | stand, There were intimations that | similar injunctions might be sued out |in different parts of the country where | the sentiment of the men is known to be against the strike, While effort was being made to prevent the strike, both sides con- tinued to make preparations to meet it. | The senate interstate commerce | committee also considered a law pass- ed by congress in 1862 authorizing | the president to take possession of railway and telegraph lines when in his judgment public safety might re- quire 1t, Settlement Only Remedy. . "No power on earth except a sat- isfactory settlement can now prevent a strike,” said W. G. Lee, president | of the trainmen, | “We four heads certainly could not obtain a postponement oe the strike if we want to, nor could we postpone it if we received messages requesting such action from every one of the committee of 640 who were here last week. President Wilson has not ask- ed us to postpone the strike and he understands, as we made it very clear to him on Monday night, that we now are powerless to act unless a satisfactory settlement is made,” A. B. Garretson, head of the cone ductors and spokesman for the eme | ployes, made a similar statement, Will Consult Gompers. | Besides conferring with Secretary | Wilson today, the brotherhood heads talked with several members of con- Bress at the capital. The brotherhood officials expected to confer today with Sar uel Gompers, president of the Anierican Federation of Labor. It (Cantinued on Page Two, Column Four.) It's a comforting | thought to many busi- | ness men to know that | Bee “Help Wanted” Ads will supply them with new employes if the need arises. Call Tyler 1000 for Bee Want-Ads. for a great railroad strike Monday . cfforts were continued to bring about - N