Show ALL GOULD LINES MAY BE AFFECTED E EC D Vice President of Machinists Believes Men in Transportation tion Service ervice Will Go Out DEPENDS ON CONFERENCE APPARENTLY Y UP TO GEO GOULD GOUID TO GIVE THE TH WORD Unless Inless the conference In New York be between betweEn tween our representatives representatIve and and Mr Ir Gould b bears ars fruit it is my opinion that the men menn in n the transportation service on the so i called ailed Gould lines Une will come out In sym sympathy s m pathy path and that there will be a general of traffic on these systems ms in substance these are the words of W WJ WJ J Hannon sixth vice president of oC the International Machinists union of Amer Amor l fra a WilO wao has been assigned to the time west western ern rn country to Investigate the strike on the Rio Grande in which the are art Involved If U the time crisis comes come which I sincerely hope it will not continued Mr Hannon it would involve the Missouri Pacific the tile Texas Teas Pacific the Cotton Bolt Belt and amui other linos lines involving approximately miles mills of or road and besides the or men in our organization o directly af affected between and men in inthe the th transportation departments Conductors Conduct mrs tors t rs engineers firemen trainmen switch switchmen pen men machinists boilermakers black blacksmiths smiths and helpers would be called out Including the helpers we figure that fm unions would be affected Meet With Gould The last official advices I had from New Nw York Is that the president of the three organizations already affected ted by b bythe the strike James OConnell of the ma machinists i J Dunn of the boilermakers and F J Kline linc of the blacksmiths had a conference with George Gould in New Nework Vork ork on Thursday I 1 understand that Mr Gould sent a personal representative tit Lye to Denver Dener to gather information and to study conditions but a al I have llave not been lieen In Denver Demer for some som days I do not know what has been done The men In the transportation service recognize that the attack on our organ organizations organIzations organIzation Is a direct fight on organized In la labor Inor bor or and that it will not bo be h long bug before the lime company com pan will try the tho same lame tactics with them It is notorious that In fights rights of or r this kind the corporation always seeks out what hat it thinks Is the time weakest spot and there makes its assault In the event that it H is successful there the line of attack spreads All there is about It is that this is s a fight on organized labor Want Old Men to Stay 1 I do 10 tb not believe that the people of our city or those of any other city want wanto to o see the old men menthe the men who have haE been residents for tor years earbe be forced out and their places taken by stake drivers mm men who stay only long enough to get a stake and then go elsewhere The ex experience of people along the time Santa Fe is in point For four years there has ha been beena beenu a u strike on In the Santa Fe shops and Ind everywhere we go we hear the same com corn complaint complaint plaint on the Ue part of ot the business men and the people The fellows who fake take our pla lal es get the money moner send it away or oret get et away themselves leaving creditors behind without number Along the line of or the Santa Fe there has been a general protest and a general lamentation that the time men who made their homes In the time towns and Cities and become an integral part and were ero such of the community had been displaced by b wanderers who had bad nothing In common with the Interests of the community or its people p opIe I T am told that of all the men who walked out in your city of ot Salt Lake only six sl sI were wert not residents that is residents in m the full sense of the city I find the same ame true of ot Denver and other cities Reverting again to the Santa Fe I have hae to say sa that the strike of has resulted In a terrible state of oC affairs there The companies will tell you ou that the HII men they Import are competent and skilled J mechanics mechanic but they are not The Santa Fe In spite of or the fact that it had new ne engines is constantly finding dif difficulty difficulty difficulty with Its Us motive power It is no secret that trainmen attribute many man of o oth the th wrecks In which some of their num nuni number bar ber lost their lives to the fact that the theren men jen In the shops were not capable of keeping the locomotives In repair Are Against Violence I 1 see that some are inclined to make much of an occurrence in Salt Lake Sat Saturday Saturday night wherein three strikebreakers are rl said to have hae been attacked I would I Ike to have it emphasized if It you ou will that the unions repudiate and absolutely discountenance any baiting of or strike strikebreakers strikebreakers breakers If It the company com pan as It Is re reported reI reported I ported means to discover the leaders of o the mob If It mob there was we hope they the will succeed In finding them and we will do our best to help them theft if they want us to We e do n nt t stand for that kind of or bus business busIness iness mess not for a H second Mr Ir Hannon will remain In Salt Lake a 8 day or two Then he will go to Ogden I I and RId from Ogden he will wil go eastward past ward At I this tins time lime he hI it Is I the only national vice president west ost of Uie tue Mississippi lIe He is from Oklahoma and was vas elected vice I president last tall fall Prior to that time he had been a n special organizer I I Fifteen apprentices went out at the Rio Grande Grands shops yesterday morning Their I walkout was voluntary the unions not having power or Jurisdiction over them I I I Tin second conference between the time ex board and anti the arbitration commit committee I tee of or the Commercial club which was to have hae been held yesterday will be held hekl toda I I |