The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-21
SETTLING A STRIKE.
The Union Pacific Trouble Nay
Be Speedily Adjusted.
SANTA re ,NvokEs THE LAW.
Its essiking shsp1sa EnjsiasA Irsn
nsa-The Closhing Cuttsrs' Case.


fail. the strike now in force on the Union
Pacific system will b ended within the
next tventy-four hours, II conservative
ment - viii leave the men in . position
to resume work and still give them some
OF the rights they demanded. Twenty
hve apprentices Quit work ct noon today,
but otherwise there T. no change In the
situation. 4 meeting was held this after.
noon between the strikers executive com.
mittee and President Clark, but the result
was kept secret II looks q If the
com pany would recede from it, position.
EVANSTON. Wyo., April W,-At . mass
meeting Of Evanston shopmen tonight it
was unanim ously agreed to join the strike
Of the machinists on the Union Pacific
system.
DRSvKR, April 2o.--Assistant eupsrin.
tendent Mertsheimer, Of tho motive power
departments Of the Union Pacific, in
formed representative Of the Associated
Press this morning that 20 far only ZOO
men had gone out on the strike out of .
total number employed in his department
Of over 10000. He insists that the work 10
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 az ON yester-
day.
TOPEKA. April 2o-At 10 o'clock last
night Judge Haxen, Of the district court.
granted, upon application of the Atchison,
Topeka 4 Santa Fe Railway Company.
temporary injunction restraining the
striking shopmen from interfering with
the operation of tho road or with the men
who are 1T work in the shops. The hear
ing Of the case has been set for May I. The
company decided to take this action yes
terday afternoon, when seven cooks who
were carrying meals to shop hands were
set upon by strikers and prevented from
taking the food into the shops. This Incl
dent and the fear that an additional force
of men that the company expected to put
on today might lead to more serious COLI
lis:on caused the company to ap-
peal to tho courts for protection.
An hour before Judge Hazen granted
the order sixty non-union men arrived
from Pennsylvania to take the places of
strikers. The sheriff and twenty-nine
deputies were out this afternoon to serve
notice Of injunctions on the strikers. but
the latter will not take pains to put them
selves in the way of the officers, and It
will be some time before the work is COM
pleted. New men went to work in the
shops this morning, and the strikers say
they were employed under misrepresenta-
ton a. to wages. The strikers also say
that when the new men learned that they
were coming to take the place OF strikers
twenty deserted the train at Indianapolis
and ten more refused to goto work this
morning. Forty-three men got of the
train last night.
KANSAS CITY, April 20.-The situation
In tho strike OF the Santa Fe at Argentine
presents no startling features this morn
ing. The company has withdrawn many
OF ito watchmen and everything 10 quiet.
It was learned this morning that the com.
pany had come to an understanding with
the engineers, firemen and switchmen.
which obviates the necessity Of strike on
their part. The grievance of the brother.
hood shopmen is still pending, but tho
brotherhood has decided not to strike to.
day. The difficulty will be held in abey-
ance for the present in this case.
Officials of the Union Pacific road say
that the strike on their system is causing
but little trouble. The road is not Grip
pied in the least, they say, by locomotives
being disabled. for they are all in good re-
pair. The strikers, on the other hand, say
that in spite of the statements made by
the company to the contrary, the road is
suffering from scarcity Of locomotives in
good repair.