Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-12-02 | Page 11 | Effect of Strike on Utah Uncertain

Efl EFFECT OF STRIKE Oil UTAH UNCERTAIN I Xot Likely, However, to Em- jt brace Switchmen Here. Rail-n Rail-n jjp road Men Say. '& fspecW to The Tribune. "3 h OGDISN. fee. 3. Just what effect the '. n-alltonJ swltchmens' strike on the north n fronds will have upon traffic In this city B 'anil other portions of the state Is not . definitely agreed upon by local railroad finen. That the strike Itself will eventually Ci embrace the switchmen employed on rall-, rall-, " i'roHiJs in I'tah Is not regarded probable, lllll 1 but some Inconvenience, If not actual u floss, will unquestionably .result to local j 'iralhoad companies us the result of the 3 strike. I I The Oregon Short Line Railroad com-, com-, ' J panv this morning received notice that 'h the "northern railroads will refuse to han-e)'.t!a han-e)'.t!a (die all freight of a perishable nature mitt mi-tt iiJf "(til tic strike conditions are adjusted, iwrt sOtlicr classes of freight, according to the Q. bulletin received here today, will be nc-n nc-n tttrcepted by the northern roads from local i ohtS companies, subject to delays of indclinlte 'duration. .. 1 J Home of the railroad men here seem "s -ito think that the strike will cover a fatrii wide scope of railroad territory, and will 13 o embrace many roads not yet affected bc-nf;'fore bc-nf;'fore It Is finally settled. Freight from " 'the cast, heretofore routed over the 5 northern roads, will be brought west as 'PtflE iv1" as Opclon on the Union Pacillc and tC? Isent west to Snn I'rnnclsco over the ! fmithern Tacllle. From Sun Francisco. It 1 lis raid, freight will bo scut to the north Xht fowl northwest over the .Shasta route, is r preaching the points touched by the norlh-o norlh-o cay 3;rn railroad companies In a roundabout eaq flnnnncr.