The oasis., 1894-07-05
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Thursday, July 5, 1894.
ADDITIoNALLocAL NEWS.
The Railroad strike as Seen in Benson,

Thursday that the east bound train
 was tied up at Los Angeles, and would
 not pass Benson the usual hour Fri
 day morning, the strike and its prob
 able results became the main topic for
 conversation everywhere. And when,
 on Friday, it became known that the
 west bound train had carried no mail,
 as consequence o. the tie up on the
 Santa Fe, a general sense of isolation
 peryaded the community. People who
 had come up from Mexico expecting
 to go east and found they could not
 get away from Benson, except by
 freight train, and then only so far as
 Fl Paso, could not restrain senti-
 ment that they were being imposed
 upon. Those bound westward, were
 limited to Yuma for destination, as
 it was learned that trains were going
 no farther west than that point, and
 that beyond there everything was tied
 up and not wheel turning. Later it
 was stated that passenger trains went
 through to Los Angeles, but passen- gers were not ticketed beyond Yuma, for fear that traffic beyond that point
 would suffer suspension. Those en route to Tucson or Phoenix were all right and could reach their deStina- tions, while those going beyond Yuma were given choice of several places beside Benson for stOpOyers.
 Friday morning Mir. Webster, the Southern Pacific agent, received or ders to refuse all freight and lay off all the hands at the station he could get along without. This indicated that the company anticipated a gene ral tie up, and was preparing for it. In accordance with the order Howard Marsh, check clerk, and James Ro- berts, warehouseman were laid off. | Later the order about receiving freight was modified so far as local merchan- disc for points on the Fl Paso and Yu- 1 ma divisions were concerned. But all through freight was still excluded from shipment.
 Friday morning bulletin was post | ed, the substance of which was an ap- peal to the men to stand by the com pany-t that the strike was between Pullman and employees, twenty-five hundred miles away, was in no way so the Southern Pacific company could control, that the Pullman cars run here are owned three-fourths by the Southern Pacific, and that as this con- pany had always enjoyed cordial rela- tions with it's employees, it seemed no more than right that the men should now stand by the company and not embroil it in a trouble having it's ori- gin more than two thousand miles away. So far as the men in this yicin- ity were concerned the order cut no figure, for the striking organization the American Railway union-has no here and none of them were apt to be called out. It was re- ported that the union in California is so strong that it had tied up all traffic and the report seemed verified by facts.
 Tuesday it was reported at Benson that on the preceding day commit . tee from the employees of the Southern Pacific on the Yuma and Fl Paso div sions visited Superintendent Noble !. tt Tucson, and informed him that hey view the matter of the strike in he light that they are at work for i'm, and will continue to do so on the < iyisions under his charge, but are to e sent to no other divisions Mir. No i. ie communicated this to headquar- E Q o F'rsl st r.fra, r-,fff, 1. t