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Show MACHINISTS WORKING IN OGDEN LOCAL SHOPS WILL NOT BE AFFECTED AF-FECTED BY STRIKE. Employes In tho Shops at Sparks Are Said to Have Acted Too . - Hastily. That the machinists' strike situation situa-tion at Sparks, Nevada, in the Southern South-ern Pacific company shops, will be amicably settled and will have no effect ef-fect on the local situation in the least. Is the statement mado today by Assistant As-sistant Superintendents T. F. Rowlands Row-lands and D. J. Malone, the latter the master mechaolc of the Salt Lake division di-vision of the Southern Pacific company. com-pany. The rumor that sproad in local railroad rail-road circles on Saturday aad Sunday that the men in the local shops would probably strike in sympathy with the machinists at Sparks, seems to bo totally unfounded, according to statements of members of the Machinists Machin-ists association. One or two of tho men have announced that the Sparks situation would not affect the Ogden shops at all. A statement was made by some of the radical ones that, should tho Southern Pacific company attempt to bring any of the engines to Ogden from Sparks to be repaired that tho local shop men would strike. Assistant As-sistant Superintendent Rowlands stateg that the company bad no Intention In-tention of bringing any of tho Sparks works here. Master Mechanic Malone said tho local shops had plenty of work to keep them going. He said that during dur-ing the past few weeks many additional ad-ditional machinists and helpers had been given work In the local shops which are running on full time. The Sparks strike, a well-known machinist employed at the shops In Ogden, declared, was caused by the somewhat hasty action of the machinists machin-ists In that city who wanted the immediate im-mediate reinstatement of two discharged dis-charged machinists under full pay during dur-ing the time they wore idle, Tho men wero reinstated, but the company com-pany refused the demand for pay during dur-ing the period they were out of work, and the strike resulted. |