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9 TITE MORNTXG OREGOXIAN. TITTJKSDAY, OCTOBEK. 1911 SCZSX3 AT ALBINA SHOPS OF O.-W. RAN. CO, WHERE STRTKEBREAKERS HAVE BEEN SMUG GLED IX TO TAKE PLACE OF UNION MEN. ACTS AS IF STRIKE WERE OVEH Workmen, Too, Are .Optimistic and Declare Line Wi'l Have to Bend Socn. ROAD 7,,v,, : 1 fat ifiPk I l 1 1 ' i" 'i-. " r ' ' " im'"mm' ' ' """""'f rxm7V e-w? oacrs u y 'J -, . i -.' ULTIMATUM ALMOST VAIN Frw Shopmra Return to Work to Regain Old PIr Trouble Not Fipex-trd Cnlons Ordered to Pay Xo Herd to Bulletins. . Theoretically, th stria of shopman on tb HarVlman road. Inaugurated last Faturday. la over, so far as the HirniuT Is concerned. With the men. who remain firm In their sttltude of demanding rcognl- tlon f their federation or not working, the strursle has Just beaun. At i o'clock yesterday afternoon tha strikers lost their last chance to re turn to work In irood standing;, accord' Ina to the ultimatum Issued br the company the day before. A few ap plied tor their old positions and these will be restored to favor with the road, their eligibility for pension will con tinue SLd they will be given preference oyer any men who are hired subse quently. If nr of the men now on strike de sire to return to work they will be treated on the same basts as employes who have not worked for the company before, officials say. If a sufficient number of men can be obtained outslda the union ranks to man the shops, the services of the strikers will not be soueht at all. it Is declared. The unlJn men laugh at these asser tions and say that they are nJt afraid, that the company eventually will have to come to them and seek terms. All ther ask. they say. la recognition of tha federation. Half Dms Cosse Back. Few men heeded the 4 o'clock ulti matum. One or two went Into the shops yesterdsr morning. A half dosen railed at the office of J. P. Graham, as sistant reneral manaaer. la the Wells Farico building-, yesterdsy. and declared their readiness to accept the terms of the company. They will be escorted to the sales of the plants In which they sve been employed. It la probable that they win be required to remain Inside ths fence and lodge In the quar ters that have been provided there. W hile the company does not fear that any of Its employes will be molested by the pickets or strike sympathisers. It Is pointed out that unruly. Irrespon sible rersons are always certain to rather on an occasion of this kind and that trouble may ensue. T.I pickets and union men have con ducted themselves In a manner that hss commended .Itself to the company vftlclxia themselves. J. ll, ftack and Mr. tiraham. assistant aeneral mana gers, visited the Alblna plant yesterday renins. They left throuah the south sate and were greeted with good-natured cheers ss they appeared. Both mer smiled and waved their hands to ward the group of strikers outside. The reception they received caused them tr remark on the orderly way In which the men are behaving. Alas la t AveU Tea hie. "If any trouble takes place It won't he the fault of our men." said C R. M-mlt. of the federation's advisory board. "Outsiders usually are respon sible for disturbances. We have been exceedingly careful to avoid all circum stances that are likely to lead to trou ble. "There Is no reason for trouble on ur part. AVe have the shops com pletely tied up and are confident of Tlctjrjr. The boys are feeling too good to think of molesting anybody." The advisory board Yesterday Issued Instructions to Its men not to pay at tention to bulletins posted by either me 0.-M". K. N. Company or tha Rout hero raclflc They are loetng ground every hour." the order continued. The federation I" gaining, with i per cent of the men elretdy out. "If we remain true to oar union prin ciples and tha cause for which we are nghtlng tha life of our organisation tbe victory will surely be ours. All re ports coming In axe encouraging." It waa reported at union headquar ters jesterday that C. W. Oliver, a car Inspector In the service of the company for JS years, left his post at the Al blna shepe. I. Furnish, who haa been car Inspector at the Alblna plant for "1 years, also left. It waa reported. A bollermaker quit work at Alblna yes terday. rare Krews. Says O'Brien. Tha lonely strikebreaker at East Tortland waa missing this morning on strike." a further report read. The ofTkUaia are working 14 hours a day they wtu die with their en gines.' waa tha conclu.V.g statement. Scattered advices obtained by tha tiatou men from tha ahopa last Bight were to tha effect that a bollermaker and a car repairer had Joined tha strik ers' ranks. On ths other hand. J. P. O'Brien, gen. eral manager, decared at Boon yester day that hia forces In the shops had been augmented by 17 men engaged tha previous day. These men were re cruited through the tabor arencis In Portland. Their ability to nil tha places of tie skilled men who are oa strike has not yst been determined. They win have to ba examined and tried before their worth will ba known. Colon oRK'lals declare thst capable men who are willing to act as str.ke breakers cannot be found. They eav tr are not alarmed over the Implied threats of the company to bring to Port end the strikebreakers recruited In the last few months tn Chicago. Mr. O hrlen Is of the opinion that It will not be necessary to go to Chicago f"r men. lie U enlldent thst with the sew men g'.eaned In Portland and the deserters from the strikers' ranks ha can man tha ahopa. Us wl!l not re quire as many men to do the work as were employe before tha strike. Act. Ing under retrenchment orders, the mea worked only eight hours a day and en but five dss a weekan aggregate of 4 hours a week. The men now In the shops are working IS hours a day and six days a week an aggregate of hours a week. Fall Fee-re et fteeded. In this way.twa men can be mads to do the work of three. The officials explain that the strikebreakers are paid fu;i union wages and that thev are duly compensated for the extra time. A report reached union headquarters Mens Christian Association employ ment bureau was obtaining strike breakers, but a hurried Investigation disproved this statement. Several large department stores that handle groceries Informed the strike committee yesterday that they have not sold anything to ths Harriman compa nies for use at the plants. Train service has not suffered on ac count of the strike. A fast freight train, waa derailed yeaterday morula: near Glendale. on the Southern Iaclflc, on account of a broken flange, A num ber of horses and mules In a car were killed. The southbound Shasta Limited that left Portland Tuesday nlg-ht was delayed seven hours. The equipment In the Portland yards Is In good condition, agents of tha company report. A reserve supply of lo comotives ready for road service re mains on band and baa not yet been re quired. Kejalpsseat San" era. Say Mem. On the other hand, tbe men report that many engines are leaking badly and that the absence of competent men to give proper attention to the rolling stork soon will make Itself felt. At The Dalles. It was reported, the rolling stock Is In bad condition. As sistant Superintendent KuykendaiL of the O.-W. tL X. Co, It la said, has been required to give personal atten tion to cars at t'matllla. At MI'ford. Utah, according- to re ports received here, the Japanese labor ers f.ave Joined the forces of the strik ers. At Ashland all men want to come out. Including the hostlers, callboys and engine wipers. From Roseburg the union men re ceived advices that "bad orders" are pil ing up. Track and house are full of dead engines. Superintendent Is beg ging men to go to work. Pickets pre vent strikebreakers from coupling cars." Since 4 o'clock yesterday the com pany has been treating tbe entire sltu- stlon In seeming Ignorance of tha strik ers existence. The shops will ba oper ated, officials say. by the best men available, whether they are former employes, recruits gained In Portland or strikebreakers obtained In tha East, EXGINKS AUK LEAKING BADLY Fire Helpers Are Placed In Round house; at Grant Pas. GRANTS PASS. Or, Oct. 4. (Spe cial.) Tha Harriman shops at this place are deserted. Five helper en gines ar housed In the roundhouse, practically dead or leaking; badly. Two engines are entirely out of commis sion. But one engine is in goo a snaps and It takea local freight to Ashland. All helpers employed on the grade to Glendale and return are In bad shape and may not leave the roundhouse. The engine on train IS waa cut out to day M Glendale and waa run over the hul light on account of leaking boilers. Aa nearly all trains carry helpers from this piece and back. It looks like only a few days until traffic will ba suspended. All leaking engines ar being plugged by roundhouse foremen. KIF.LDS WOKKS IX THAI X YARDS Tern Nonunion Men rersoaded to Quit Roseburf Shops. ROSE BURG. Or, Oct. 4. (Special.) Not one of the (S striking shopmen re turned to work this afternoon. On the contrary, the strikers aver they were successful In persuading two nonunion men to desert their posts today. L. R. Fields, superintendent, and C W. Msr tyn. assistant superintendent, of Port land, are stationed In Roseburg and ar doing part of the work ordinarily dona by car Inspectors. A freight wreck In Cow Creek Can yon early today added to tha serious ness of the situation and traffic waa blocked until nearly noon. Five cars were derailed and 10 horses consigned to Portland were killed. The track was cleared by Superintendent Fields, Assistant Superintendent Martyn and a gang of Greek section men. ACTIVITY SHOWN AT LA GRANDE Union Men Admit That One Employe, Is Working; In Each Department. LA GRANDE. Or.. Oct. 4. (Special) Union pickets here, of whom ther are over 40. admit that at least on man ta at work In each department of tb Harriman shopa There has been no disorder at any time. All trains ar running lata, and the ultimatum delivered by J. P. O'Brien, general manager of tha O.-W. R. At N., hae been unheeded. Company officials her say that "5 men are at work, while union leader assert that but 10 are employed. It Is bolleved that the company Is suffer ing much more than It will admit. One hundred and twenty men walked out here at o'clock today, and they refused definitely to go bark to work. Tha aaelstant superintendent of tha O.-W. R. S. at this place Is super vising the inspection of all traina leav ing La Grand. Men All Out lit AhlanL ASHLAND. Or, Oct. 4. (Special.) There le apparently as yet no break In the ranks of the 15 federated shop em ployes of the Southern Pacific Com pany in this city. Six special officer ar now on duty tn the local railroad yards. Thst the railroad company la preparing to employ strikebreakers here Is apparent from preparations A U mmvMI.b aallne m nA .lMnltlS I accommodstlons (or men. A kitchen car was onuini m xrom int swm v day. Ten Men Working In Albany. ALBA NT. Or, Oct. 4. (Special.) S'ot a slngls on of ths 14 men who walked out of the Corrallls A Eastern chops In Albany last Saturday returned to work today. The places of five strikers have been filled, two of these being rsr Inspectors at the Union Pepoc These, with five men In crafts not affected by the strike, make 10 men la the shops and roundhouse her. One Nonunion Man Works. THE DALLES. Or, Oct. 4. Striking railroad mea her were tn high spirits this evening because not one took ad vantage of the company' offer to re turn to work today. Instead of the usual number of men In The Dalles shops. SO, only one nonunion helper Is oa -luty. No attampt haa bean made ta repiaoa striker her. jX -;'r ' " ': '. ' -i sBUSjSiBpJiaaa-w-" W A '.-I " -'- - '-- ty r -7-v J-" S- r!'.'!..-l ts t. , n H i STRIKE IRS RAGE Four Fall Wounded in Two Separate Engagements. MORE TROOPS ARE OUT Governor of Mississippi Fears More Trouble t McComb City Non union Workers There Hoist White Flag- at Stockade. (Continued From First Paga) the strikebreakers as barricaded In the Illinois Central machine shops there and declared that a mob strikers and strike sympathizers had surrounded the railroad commissary and cut off aupplies for tha 200 strlebreakers. EASTERN SITUATION WATCHED Iregon Short Line Striker Await De velopment on Other Lines. SALT LAKE CITT, Oct. 4. With tha Oregon Short Line shopmen boasting of practically unbroken ranks, stouter courage and absolute confidence In the outcome of their strike for recognition and with the railway official asserting that the older employes of ths com pany ar gradually returning to their former places. It is becoming more and more apparent that the situation In this district will be influenced en tirely by the turn of events In the more Important railway centers. On the surface there was little ap parent change today, either at the Ox den shops or at those in the F oca tell o. Idaho, division. Now that the last hour of grace al lowed the strikers has expired, offi cials of the Short Lin In this city ar apparently determined upon an un compromising attitude toward the men who have left the service. Thst the strikers will no longer ba considered employes of the company and will be taken back, if at all, only as new men. was the emphatic assertion of F. H. Knickerbocker, asslstsnt general man ager of the Oregon Short Line. Other offlclala Interviewed today spoke with equal force. All maintained that tbe company would have little dtf. flculty In securing men to take the places of the strikers. NO BLOODSHED IS WANTED Union Official Say That He Would Rather See Strike Lost. LOS ANGELES. Oct- 4. '1 would rather see th etrlke lost than have any bloodshed or see any 'violence, as was th ras In th railway strike of 1S4." A. D. Tancey, chairman of the strik ers' press committee In this city and a member ef the local board of dlrec- -, - ' tors of the shopmen's federation, which strucq Sautrday, made that statement late today Immediately after a mass meeting of 1200 strikers in Labor Temple. "We do not wish violence and will not tolerate It,"' Yancey continued. "At the meeting this afternoon all strikers were ordered not to carry weapons. Another thing dons ta the meeting was to Ishu orders to the men to do ab solutely no picketing." Railroad officials reported no change In the situation so far as the operation of trans was concerned. A reward of $1000 was offered by th railroad for the apprehension of per sons guilty of starting two unmanned engines under steam out from Moron last night, damaging two cars Into which they crashed on a siding. NONUNION FORCE INCREASES Strikers In San Francisco Continue to Picket Shops Stockade. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 4. Additional strikebreakers arrived here from East ern points early today, swelling the list now at work in the Mission Bay shops to ISO men. Picketing continues, 40 union men keeping the stockade sur rounded constantly, but aa yet there haa bocn no demonstration or sugges tion of violence. Officials of the Federated Shopmen asserted tonight that there were 15 de sertions during the day. This Is denied by the railroad company. The men lnslds tha stockade were put to -work this morning. Wholesale cutting of air ho on freight cars Is tb only TOlence report ed from Oakland tonight. Twenty-six union men are reported to have re turned to work. AIR BRAKE IS CUT AT BAKER Trouble Feared at Huntington, Sheriff Asked for Aid. BAKER. Or.. Oct. 4. (Special.) Eastbound O.-W. R. & N. train No. ( waa delayed here for some time to day, after arriving several hours late, by the cutting of the air despite a close watch of the train. Officials at Huntington are ealling on th Sheriff here for men, ss trouble Is feared as the result of the substitution of Japanese In the yards. The company Is finding difficulty In getting men. All trains are delayed at Huntington where only six men are working. Two refused to strike and the other four are strikebreakers. It Is reported In local railroad circles that engines are being "killed" on the La Grande division. FOOTBALL STAR INJURED Warren Grimm, of Washington Squad, Sprains Back at Practice. SEATTLE. Oct. 4. Warren Grimm, for three years star end on the Uni versity of Washington football team and acknowledged to be the best player in the Pacific Northwest on the for ward pass, was injured so seriously yesterday that It is feared he will be out of the game the rest of the sea son. Grimm was running down a punt when he fell, making a quick turn and sprained his back. Balloons are not airship, tbe attorney ceaeral ef Connecticut has decided. ! "ScmeUe" .Anti-SMSs () I ij The toaifer ..hft,- Nk hardened Steel rti. s vj!l7 Leather tread is j 3 Anti-Skid I VaS ( tough, flexible and 1 j j 1 1 1 OBAAJa KOTOR CAB COMPANY, 7 15tli TashingUm Sts., Portland. NORTHWEST AUTO COMPANY, 493 Alder St. Portland, WEST ilOl'I DETERMINED LOWENBERG NEGOTIATIONS CUT SHORT BY WEST. Contract With Company Is Already Cancelled, and Month-to-Month Deal Is Only Possibility. SALEM. Or, Oct. 4. (Special.) Governor West remained obdurate at a conference, with 8. Lowenberg, of Low enbers; & Going; Company, tonl&ht, and declared that he would enter into no further negotiations with the company that has controlled the foundry and contracted for convict labor at the penitentiary for several years, unless these negotiations were strictly along the line of closing the affairs between the company and the state. Mr. Low enberg, however, made arrangements for a further conference with the Gov ernor for some time tomorrow, but the executive says this conference must be strictly along a line of finishing the business at the prison and for no other purpose, as ha says he will listen to negotiations of no other nature. "The contract with the company is already canceled and what further ar rangements we make will be on a mouth-to-mouth basis," said the Gov ernor. "I am willing to give Mr. Low enberg a reasonable time In which to close the affairs of the company, com plete the stoves for which materials are on hand at the penitentiary and save him all the loss possible. This probably will require no more than a few months. Further than that, no concessions will be made and we agreed to that hi tha first statement, which waa issued by the offices." Mr. Lowenberg called attention to the recent deposing of R. B. Fleming as superintendent of the shops and openly placed at his door much of the reason for difficulties which the com pany has encountered. He deolared that payments were In arrears owing to other pressing obliagtlons and that the company would catch up on all ar rears In a few weeks and by the end of the year would have a system in HEILIG THEATER Commencing This Afternoon and Night for Three Afternoons and Nights Only Tlmrsday, Friday, Saturday, October 5, 6, 7 KING GEORGE FIFTH CORONATION FESTIVITIES n By Motion Pictures Lecture by Mr. Clifford Robertson, formerly of London, England, now Director of Robertson School of Dramatic Art. To the eye the scene could not have been more brilliant nor truer in the original. The pictures are much better than the real sights seen by the ordinary spectator In London who had a poor point of vantage. The . films were taken at the Invitation of King George and the operator had an opportunity to get close. New York Press, July 30, 191L New York knows Its motion pictures, that Is, the ordinary kind, hut these pictures are not the ordinary kind. Everything appears in its natural color, and when the subject before the camera is as full of color as a coronation procession the result ia wonderfully fine. Sew Tork Herald. July 10, 1911. In many places th colorings were wonderful and beautiful. The deli cate tints of the leaves on the trees as they swayed In the light breeze about Windsor Castle waa remarkably reaL As to the gorgeous cos tumes of thos who took part in the royal pageants, they seemed far more accurate than paint and brush could make them. After seeing the event In London and Windsor, the naval pageant was shown. It was then that the audience broke out into Its greatest applause. The movement of the vessels and the lashing of the sea against them was realistic in the extreme. The water was as natural aa wafer could possibly be apart from th real thing. New York American, July SO, lSli. Mere word cannot convey the beauties of this startling wonder of modern photography. New York World, July 80, 191L "Eighth Wonder of the World." Outlook. Reserved seats for entire engagement now on sale at box office, Heillg Theater, 7th and Taylor Streets. operation which would be of value to the state as well as a benefit to the prisoners. Among other plans which he proposed waa a piece-work system and continuation of prize systems as well as extra pay for the men. such as he has inaugurated since he has personally succeeded Mr. Fleming as head of the plant here. The Governor declared with the em phasis of finality, however, that he intended to do away with contract convict labor entirely and is already laying plans for what he will do with the vacant shops. He Intends to con struct a bunkhouBe for trusties In one section and, in another, plans to make a large share of the furniture which will be used In the Eastern Oregon branch insane hospital. He also hopes to use a portion of the shops for morn ing exercises for the men and another he probably will use for the housing of a trade school to educate the con victs in various trades and for shops to make necessary articles of wearing apparel for the various state institu tions. Mr. Lowenberg hopes that the con ference tomorrow may result in the Governor changing his plans and giv ing the company another chance to go on with its contract with the state. THOMPSON IS $14,000 WIN -VCR Horse Owned by Pennsylvania. Man Takes Kentucky Futurity. LEXINGTON, Ky, Oct. 4. Peter Thompson, owned by A. B. Coxe, of Paoli, Pa., won today the $14,000 Ken tucky futurity.. Main Leaf, which won two heats yesterday, was too lame to come back. Peter Thompson sot a new world's record for three-year-old geldings in tho fourth heat when he went the mile in 2:07. 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