The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-02
SHOPS CLOSE.
The Big Santa Fe Whistle
Won't Blow
TO Summon 100 Men to Work
Tomorrow Morning.
A Strike Was Ordered by the A.
r. q. at Noon,
BUT TALOCKOUT ORDER
Came From Headquarters at
1880 This Morning.
Men Hold a Meeting to Demand
NI~rro NF1-kIc Dowv
Men Hold a Meeting to Demand
Two Months Pay.
THELOCAL SITUATION.
Short Passenger Trains Con-
tinue to Run.
None Are MoIested Here and No
Trouble Feared.

Al II O'CLOCK, noon, today the Santa + 9
shops in this city were closed for an in
definite period. The responsibility for
their closing rests somewhere between
the managers of the A r. L. and those
OF the railroad. AIT its meeting last night
the A. r. IT,, which claims a membership
IL Topeka Of nearly eleven hundred, in
8 set Of resolutions, published elsewhere,
ordered its members to quit work at noon
today. The order was generally given
out and the strike was expected Shortly
after IL o'clock, however. the following
order appeared on the walls of the ''block
house,:
The shops will be closed at noon to-
day, July 2, for an indefinite period.
JOHN PLAYER, Supt Of Machinery"
When the whistle blew at twelve
o'clock, the men came pouring out Of
the several buildings with their dinner
buckets IN their hands and crowded
around the notices. There was yelling
and hurrahing and q big cry of PAY
day" .'Pay day" went up as the men
crowded into the sbiock house" to de-
posit the last blocks they will take in
before many Of them feel the demands
Of their stomachs for sufficIancy Of
food. 1t is difficult to estimate the
exact strength Of the A. r. L. in the
shops. the managers Of the union claim
to have majority of the employees there,
order for strike until noon today.
a Meeting to SEQ About Pay.
Another order that was displayed on the
block house and attracted a great deal of
attention was the call for the meeting at
Trades assembly hall this afternoon at
o'clock .'to appoint a committee to see
about the two months pay now due u.s."
Ii was signed, by order of one of them"
The joy with which they responded to
this call was unbounded. "WeIl be
there" they yelled
Encouraging TeleErams-
The lociu managers Of the A. r. U. In
this city are receiving encouraging tele-
grams today from all points of interest
in the state. One from Atchison an
n0unces that all mem bers of the union at
that place had quit work at seven o'clock
this morning. This not only includes the
Santa Fe but the union mem bers on ali
roads ia Atchison-
At Einporia the situation. as depicted
by the official A. II. L. telegram, is
thickening- The dispatchers and teIe-
graphers there went out at 8 o'clock last
night and there are no men working
there in any departments. A telegram
from the o. X. G. at Emporia announces
that in the meeting last night at IL
O'Clock the order endorsed the action Of
the A r. L. and voted to sustain it.
Grand Master Jesse Mcdaniel, of the
Brotherhood Of B. x B. M., in 4 com
municaIion this morning to b. NJ. Wal
lace, grand organizer of the order saws:
ANY Brotherhood men who wish to-
may join the A. r. u, if they SO desire
as there is nothing in the constitution Of
the order that prohibits it. l do not think
il advisable 70 do 20 in body"
FIrsnn,,n aud other Trafnm-n Omit
About $50 tiremen, switchmen and
brakemen attended the union meeting
at B. Of A.. F. hall at 1920 this morning
There were also a few engineers and
conductors present George Lord OF the
ewitchmen presided Conductor LYONS
of Emporla spoke for nearly an hour,
taking the A. r. IT, a subject.
President SlOat and several others also
spoke As the whistle at the shops was
blowing at noon a motion was made
that .-all employees OF the railroad train
service irrespective of organization. will
now quit work until the men discharged
for refusing to handle Pullman cars are
relnstated- The motion carried unani-
mously. and none Of the men that were
present a the meeting will work from
NOW on
1t must be remembered that these
men 60 out as individuals. however. not
as members of the orders to which they
belong outside of the A. r. L. There has
as Yet been no strike ordered Of the
Swltchmen's union, the B. Of K T. or the
b. Of l. +. 1t will doubtless cripple the
train and yard service TO a considerable
extent.
santa re Omcss May Close.
Receiver j. c. Wilson said this after
noon that il is not unlikely that the gen
eral Office building will be closed tomor-
row, as with the road not in operation
and the shops closed there is but little
for the clerks in the offices to do.
Attorney A. A Hurd said this after
noon that the men 1t the shops were not
discharged, and were simply laid of,
and would be paid At the regular time
and in the regular way He said if they
were discharged it would he necessary
for the company to pay them at once,