Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1891-12-18
Fi,e Fsisssapher's strike.

on. Last Thursday Auditor Meithrep
had charge Of the 0nice bore. During
the day he was invited 10 leave town
and ieb tho teiegfaphefs and the rail-
road company dghti 10 out. The var
i6us Restaurants we're In sympathy
With the ftrihors and fefusud to feed
him, In the Afternoon he got notice
that q seab was coming to relieve him
and he grace fully retired, taking the
vest bound tralu Ia search OF some.
thing to est.
His substitute did not appear that
night but Was Oh hand the next morn.
Ing, lie is d young fellow named
Moore who has bound himself body
and soul to the Southern Pacific COM
pAhy, he signed Che obnoxious afidav.
II and the appearances are that he
would sign any thing TO hold a Job,
The boys made life q burden to him
and he looks as though he had been
through = severe sickness. Saturday
he MAS Joined by 4 couple OF operators,
one named Nelson, who has been
working at Benson, and another
named Hughes. The restaurant
keepers have declared a boycott
against them and they are eating at
the boarding esF Of the carpenter out
ht which ls located here for the pres.
Oht,
The railroad company tried TO
send the train orders by the Western
Union wires but the operators Ia 81
Paso refused to receive the messages.
The Western Union superintendent
wanted the names Of the operators
who refused 81 &c 10 blackllst them
and eleven Of the operators In the
Western Union Office ia that town
walked out. The chief telegrApher OF
the Telegrapher's Brotherhood has ar.
rived Ia FL Paso TO Investigate the
situation, Gnd the indications are that
he will uphold the strike and make
the retention OF the III Paso operators
az issue with the Western Union
company.
Superintendent Fillmore tells the
reporters OF the San Francisco papers
that the strike Is OF no consequence
and that he has already filed the
places Of the striking operators with
competent men and that all the trains
Of the company are moving smoothly
and on time. The day he told this to
the reporters q train Of steamer
freight, 1.-The rapid transit of which
the company considers Of more I'm
portsncs than it does Of passenger
trains, laid at LordsbuFg from eleven
o'clock. in the morning till the pas
senger train came by, twelve hours
late and then followed IL out as the
second section, all because the opera
tor here could not get a train order
for the crew togo with it. This does
not look much like trains moving
smoothly and on time.
All the operators on the Atlantic s.
Pacific have gone out on a strike with
a grievance similar to that Of the
operators on the Southern Pacific.
Whatever the result Of the eight
may be it is certain thatithe operators
have the sympathy of the people llv-
ing along the line Of the road and
they all hope that the boys will win.
Wednesday night a new complica-
ton came into the strike question.
Just as the east bound train came in
Robert Black, who is in no way con
nected with the telegraphers nor the
railroad company, went over to the
depot and informed the scab operators
that they would have to leave town
on the first train. He enforced hla
order with a six shooter, The opera
tors t%elegraphed to Tucson telling
the state OF affairs, and it is supposed
received orders to y6cate. At al
events they took the train for the
west, which had been held here by the
dispatcher nearly an hour.
This act is universally condemned
by the best citizens in town and the
LIBERRL has yet to hear any person
commend 1t.