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Show ATTITUDE OF SHOPMEN -DISCUSSED Views at Variance but Pros-. Pros-. , pect of StriKe Is Not Immediate. - WOULD BE BAD TIME, SAY LOCAL. WORKMEN Federation Official Declares De-clares Alliance Is Def en. . . sire in Nature.. : OT kAUVWAT SHOPa Jnliua Kruttschnitt, director of maintenance and operation of Harri- . . mas liaea, aay wag increase asked by federated eraployeea ia th bop' of th Harrimaa system would mean heavy loaeea, aad railroad maaagara arfadng kn'"extrem!-gTar-iltns-tioa if the antoa of the employ, which he liken to the building traden (tDstil ia Chicago's few year ago, 1 to prevail. . Loeal railroad official deny they knew anything of what 1 being done in the matter. Loeal railroad shop employe say thsy would be foolish to atrik witk bpsinae eonditlon throughout th aa-'tion aa-'tion as they ar at present. They deay . that tky nave any wage grievances, and aaaert that only a. few miaor detail de-tail a re ap for discussion witk railroad rail-road offieUla, all of which tkey poet wUl be awttled without seriona frictioa, much lose a atrike. v . Federation ' official ar quoted aa aayiag thlr preeent mev 1 of a de--feMive katara,' meant to 'protest the kopmaa froaa anta ia wage if the-oet earn lags of railroad continue to ahow deereaaaa. ' . ' ' ' Pre dispatchea from variooe peiaU jay that th kopnea are doing what they ana to get a hearing from th railroad rail-road offlcUk. Other railroad said ta rpeet that movsmsnt will ipread irbai Harri man system to their Una. Bailroad official assert tkat they kr heeieged .with applicative from me who waat to work ia th ahop. "Our federation." one of the efgenua of the shopmen'a amalgamation is quoted ss saying to ths Wall Street Journal. "Is . formed for defenetvs snd aot for eft. serve purpoeee. The attempt ef tba Morgan group ef roads, the L. N. ana Southern Railway to reduce wages In last panic brought It Into existence. Ths railroads sr sor. snd Justly so at the manner tney were tricked Into granting wag sd-vencee sd-vencee last Vear under prom lee of Increased In-creased rates, when, aa a matter of fact, they have had nothing but decree rates ever since. It Is patent to every well Vsted railroad msa that either rates must go up. or wages must go sow a. So called sclentlne management and eta-clency eta-clency cannot overcome the stssxllly de-' de-' ereaelng margin of profit that the read . ar abi to make under praoent conditions. condi-tions. Others Getting tb Advance. "Speaking for the classes of labor represented rep-resented by ths federation, they hav received but mere pittance of the advance ad-vance granted to the engineers, conductors, conduc-tors, trainmen snd Bremen, end they will resist sny sttempt te mwe their wages either by direct cut sr by sweating out under the guise ef sclentlne manase-meat. manase-meat. . An executive officer of a railroad aya- tern In th south west says: "Actual demands of shopmen nnd mu-. mu-. ehlnleta have not oome to ue as yet.- But our employeee are organtead and hsvs . placed the matter entirely In the hands of a committee now dealing with the Karrlman llnee. It Is only n queetlon of time before demands will he made upon use system." lAsl Mas Bay "Ko AlT." T -Hot air. Nothing ta It al all." le the way John F. Cameron, en employ In th round hous of ths Oregon Short Line, replied to the question as to whether or not he thought that the employ of that company would go on n etiik. "An far Mlknow." said he. "there I nothing to-It except newspaper talk. The eub-lert eub-lert la sot worth discussing.' Ths opinion of Mr. Cameron was sehoed by a number of other Short Line employeee who were Interviewed et the shops In the north yards of ths company. On was decidedly to the point In his snswer. NU Iscs wss grimy and the pe rapt ration was streaming down It. lis was asked tf hs knew anything about the possibility of the employeee of ths Short tin going oa a strike. Hs turned on th questioner, looked at him a minute min-ute and then said: "Oh. forget Itl" And hs resumed his work. . Another employee In answer to tb Sam. queetlon, naked: "How many of the msa have you talked tor , A half deasa sr snore nnd been inter- TTionny of them look Hk fools T" ho Inquired. ' None of them had thnt appearaso. Beauaeau Oondltloau Bad. "WeN." aald he, "that Is Just what we weald be to go oa a atrike wltk conditions con-ditions as they are now. "Them le a whole lot of optimistic talk going ths rounds at ths present time, end It Is nil right I don't llks.u knacker myself. But ths real truth of the matter le that business conditions of the country an none too good right now. The crops sr short millions of bushel. They ssy thnt money Is sasy k th east, hut you don't notice any great Ms I reprove re eats suing oa all oval the country. "Th way I srss th situation p I that we would be a bunch of foole to.so en a etrlke' with bualneas ths way It Is, or Is likely te be for some month." On man may have thought th Interviewer Inter-viewer a spy. Asked If bo waa a msmbsi of the unlua. he replied: "Well. I don't know that tt la any ol your business whether 1 am or aot." About strike rumors, he said: "Haven't heard of one: don't expect te bear ef mm. Don't think them wit: ba one." And he resiuntd his work. : Nothing Serious at Isstm. Of the several men seen not one et tbeai expressed th slightest hint 'hat 1 there Is sny expectation of a sinks. Som 1 aald thst their working conditions an 1 nay am as good ss they could ex pec1 ' under present business coadlttone. On ; "While them is seats little difference between some of tbe crafts aad manage -1 menu them Is nothing serious, nothing that I believe cannot be setllsd with but Uttls trouble. . I think thst a strlks of sny of ths omits at this tlms would be I III sdvlssd nnd 1 do aot look lor any such i ordsr." . i Oa Other Boas. . I . Of flclsJs ef other railroad- have tutted 'on th matter. Vic President Melrher : asys Rock Island Is meeting mpresenta- live of thetr IsOC shopmen, but that thla i la no tlm to consider n wage advance. President Ripley says ths Atchison Is an open shop snd has no trouble with wsge 1 demands. Vim President Bowes sere the I Illinois Central has been askd for eea-! eea-! ferenr with shopmen, but hints thst news will be granted. He ssys ths road le In ' no condition to make general gdvsncee. 1 Oeneral Manager Ward of the Burlington ! ridicule th Idea of a general ink, and i Northwestern snd Wahsah efflolaie eay tkey have ne demands from their men. ' . ' Hotel Utak OtilL ' ' Th grillroom of th Hotel TTtab, a room for botk ladies aad gratlsmea, will be opened to the pablic aa Be larder lar-der evening, August 19, et p. m. .This Iss. big room is delightfully cool, the prices ressoasbls. and the maa-i maa-i ggemeat expects te mslstsin aa erB cieat, aad at aooa eepseisllv, a very prompt service for the beactt of business busi-ness people aad others who. may be pressed for ties. 1 Th room will be opea every day from 11:30 o'clock ia the ssomisg an til i after tho theatr at eight. |