The record-union., 1893-04-21
STRIKING RAILWAY EMPLOYEES.
ACTION OF THE SANTA FEE STRIK-
ERS RESTRAINED.
Officials r the Union Pacific Assert
That the Situation on Their
Road is Not Serious.
Special to the REcoRp-uN1ox.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN
Topeka (kas.), April 20.-At 10 o'clock
last night Judge Hazen of the District
Court granted, upon the application of
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail-
way Company, temporary Injunction
restraining the striking shopmen from
interfering with the operations of the
road or with the men vino are at work in
the shops. The hearing of the case has
been set for May 1st. The company de-
cided to take this action yesterday after
noon when seven cooks, who were carry
Ing meals to the shophands, were set
upon by strikers and prevented from
taking food into the shops. This incident,
and the fear that an additional force of
new men, whom the company expected
to put on to-day, might lead to a more
serious collision, caused the company to
appeal to the courts for protection.
An hour before Hazen granted the Or
der, sixty non-union men arrived from
Pennsylvania to take the place of the
strikers.
The Sheriff and twenty-nine deputies
went out this afternoon to serve notice of
injunction on the strikers. The strikers
will not take any pains to put themselves
in the way of the officers, and it will be
some time before the work is completed.
New men went to work in the shops this
morning. The strikers say they were
employed under a misrepresentation of
wages. The strikers also say that when
the new men learned they were coming
to take the place of the strikers twenty
1saSn Tod r.
that ten more refused to go to work this
morning. Forty-three men got off the
train last night.
NO STARTLING FEATURES.
KANSAS CITY, April 20.-The situation
of the strike on the Santa Fe at Arpen-
tine presents no startling features this
morning. The company has withdrawn
many of the watchmen and everything is
quiet. 1t is learned this morning that
the company had come to an understand
ing with the engineers, firemen and
switchmen, which obviates the necessity
of strike on their part. The grievance
of the Brotherhood shipment is still pend
ing, but the Brotherhood has decided not
to strike to-day. The difficulty will be
held in allegiance for the present in this
case.
THE UNION PACIFIC STRIKE
DENVER, April 20.-Assistaut Superin-
tendent Mertzheimer, of the motive
power department of the Union Pacific.
informed a representative of the Associ-
ated Press this morning that so far only
l 200 men have gone out on the strike our
of total number employed in his de-
partment of over 10000 He insists that
work is not interfered with, and that new
men are easily found to take the places of
the strikers. The condition of the strike
at this point remains the same as on
yesterday.
KANSAS CITY, April 20.-Oficials of
the Union Pacific road say the strike on
their system is causing little trouble.
The road is not crippled in the least, they
say, by locomotives being disabled. for
they are all in good repair. The strikers
on the Other hand, say that in spite of
statements made by the company to the
contrary, the road is suffering from a
scarcity of locomotives in good repair.
WILL PROBABLY SOON END.
OMAHA tNeb.), April 20.-Unless all
indications fail, the strike now in force
on the Union Pacific system will be
ended within the next twenty-four hours,
if conservative sentiment can bring
about such settlement as will leave the
men in position to resume their work
and still give them some of the rights
they demanded. Twenty-Five appren-
tees quit work to-day, but otherwise
there was no change in the situation. A
meeting was held this afternoon between
the strikers and Executive Committee
and President Clark, but the result is
kept secret. 1t looks as if the railroad
! company would recede from its position.