The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-11

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General Manager J. J. Frey of the
Santa he said LnIs afternoon that his
road i now being operase1 as before the
strike and that Is getting 10 be an old
story.
treasurer Edward Wilder when asked
about the prospects OF pay day, said he
cOu q not give any definite Information
on THAT subject, as the road must have
some earnings before it can pay It's bills
Train Master III. A Tee Of the Santa
Fee has just returned from Argentine
where he has peen fOF the past week
looking after the strike situation
He sad TO L JOURNAL reporter today;
"Everything is running smoothly at Ar
gentine again. We have full crews
y orking and 1 have no trouble III get
ting more men than L need to do work
in all departments and they are compe-
tent men, too. / have had 10 employ an
entirely new force of switchmen and
tiremen. The old force had gone out TO
d man.
The yards are now entirely in the
hands of the United States marshals and
the trouble IS over. w e had nine freight
trains out OF there yesterday and will
have fully as many today. OF course we
are not doing a very big business yet.
All the officials there have been sworn
IN as nited States mArshals and the yard
line is being guarded zealOusly No one
is allowed inside the line unless he is an
employe. If you want TO see a friend IN
the yards guard will call him but you
cannot 60 in.
lone of the restaurants that had rifles
on the wall and sign Loaded for
Scabs' beside them, was compelled to
take It down by one of the marshals. A
striker standing near demonstrated, but
was silenced with threat of arrest
s.All our trains are coming in on time
today excepting two from the west, due
at a. N. and $3.50 p. m, which are sew
eral hours late because of delays occas-
Toned by the inexperience of employees
on the western divisions
President Sloat of the A. r Z. returned
from Horton last evening, where he has
been holding mass meetings in the inter
est Of his order. He says that the lodge
there is enthusiastic in its expressions Of
sympathy for the strikers in the east, and
that it has about three hundred mem
Ders.
lie addressed a mass meeting at the
city park there yesterday, at which there
were over two thousand people. The
meeting was also addressed by Father
KinselIa of the Catholic church, and
Rev. MIR. Daisie of the Baptist church.
There will be no trouble at horton"
Mr.. SlOat said. ''Lhere could be no strike
because the men are out of work. adj
vised them not to make any unseemIy
work anyway and if they did and we
should fail IN this strike, it would jeopar-
DIE their chances OF being taken back
when il is all over"
Tie A r. [. private kilograms this
morning announce that the local lodges
Of the brotherhood OF locomotive tiremen
at Argentine, Nlckerso and Newton, ali
the Santa Fe, have turned in their
charters, and joined the A. X Z. This
will affect in ali about $50 men. and it is
expected that they viii all join the
strikers and refuse to work.
The members of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers have a good rea-
sou for not Joining the strike according
to a story told J URNAL reporter by
member Of the A r L.
The engineers brotherhood is a fra
ternal insurance order, and each engi-
neer carries $1,000 insurance through
his local lodge If the members of any
local lodge should strike without an
order from Chief Engineer Arthur, the
charter of their division would be for
felted and they would lose their insur-
ance. 1t is not an easy matter for engi-
neers and other raI.rOad men to get IN
surance. and for that reason il is not often
they strike without orders from the head
of their order.
some Of the wives and other lady
members of the local A r L, have
formed relief committee of ten or
twelve to visit the houses of the other
members ami find out if anything is
needed in the line of relief. A good
many people though poor, are too proud
to acknowledge it, 4 this committee is
for the purpose of finding out about just
such cases and applying the proper re-
lief. The managers of the local union
say that among themselves and with the
help farmers have offered shey viii be
able TO remain out Of work all summer il
need be.
The Populist committee that has the
rally of tomorrow in charge at the city
park, has offered the A r L. Of the city
the exclusive refreshment privilege and
it has been accepted A committee of
men and women are this afternoon get
ting in readiness with stands and refresh
ments 10 feed the hungry crowd tornOr-