The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-03-22
TRE sANrA ER arRLKE.

If the motives of the striking en-
gineers and firemen on the Santa Fe
system are to be judged of by what
is known to the general public, there
would appear to have been great in
justice done to a corporation which,
by its honorable and straightforward |
methods of treatment to this class of |
its employees especially, has not de-
served it. No company could have
been more careful to see that there
was no good and sufficient cause for
complaint by the brotherhood, and
when grievance was brought to its
notice, immediate steps were taken to
remove the cause thereof.
And yet, with all these favorable
considerations placed to their credit,
and in the face of the fact that a
solemn agreement had been entered in
to between the leaders of the brother
hood and the chief officials of the
Santa Fe system THAT no strike should
take place without a thirty days
notice previous thereto, the members
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
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Brothhood of Locomotive Firemen have
stepped down and out of their engine
cabs without moments warning, and
refuse to fulfill their solemn agree
ment, to the no small financial and
other damage of the business of the
road and the serious harm of this
entire section of the country.
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effect into consideration, and to one
, who is acquainted with the hitherto
; honorable and straightforward meth
DDS of the engine drivers, and the jeal
GUS care they have always taken o.
roads which have shown a friendl!
spirit to their organization, other ant
better reasons for the sudden actor
taken on the Santa Fe yesterday ma,
be ascribed. Indeed, it is more thai
reasonable to suppose that the move
D ment yesterday was intended to be di
: rectly in the interests of the Santa Fe
[ | while at the same time also in the in
e terests of the brotherhood generally
}. and especially those engaged in tn
e struggle against the So" road.
1t is well kown that the interstat
commerce act makes it incumbent on tn
. roads to interchange and haul cars 70
each other without any discriminate
whatsoever. 1t is also known that tn
L Santa Fe as a company has not refuse
to haul 90" cars, although they hav
been sidetracked by employees at al
points on the system, but not by orde
II of the company's agents.
IS Now, the idea suggests itself that b
f their employees taking this step Q
+ striking the company can no longer b
II held responsible for damages under tn
= interstate commerce act, it being una
BILE to carry out the letter of the la7
with strike is on it's hands.
q If this surmise should prove true
It cars will be running on the system i
# but few hours-and by brotherhoo
e engineers, too.
e The very fact that total ignorance a
g to the cause of the strike on the SAINT
Il Fe system seems to be the condition {
every engineer in this section, togethe
U with the fact that they one and all d.
/ clare that they have no grievanC
s against the company, gives cause IL
!. such surmises as the above, and it
more than likely that if such is I'll
cause the strike will be but of sho
- duration. That this may be the cas-
we hope to be able to chronicle soon.