Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1911 — STRIKE HANGS ON ONE ROAD [ARTICLE]

STRIKE HANGS ON ONE ROAD

Illinois Central Stands Firm—Union Pacific Not Heard From. Chicago, Sept. 1. —Peace or war in the controversy between the railroads and their shop employes now hangs on the outcome of the conference between Vice President Julius Krattschnitt of the Harriman lines and the five international presidents of the unions This conference is expected to be held today and will give the unions a criterion on which to base their course of action with reference to the Illinois Central. The demands of the Illinois Central shopmen for recognition fbf their#federation were flatly refused by President C. H. Markham at a conference with a committee of the international vi> e presidents in Mr. Markham’s office. Mr. Markham made it clear that the road considered the action taken by the men as a violation of their contracts in asking for a new agreement before serving the thirty day notices required by the old contracts with the individual unions. This follcwed similar declarations by Vice President W. L. Park on the preceding day, and left the iSsue flatly up to the unions.