The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-09


forty switchmen who struck ten days
ago. were paid of. These men received
their time checks, their full pay for May
and June, and the other men paid re-
ceived their wages for May The pay
roll amounted to over $50, 900. The
switchmen who were paid in full are
understood to be discharged. and the
other employees believe the company will
take them back when the strike IS over.
a Telegram to Judge Caldwell
A member Of the Topeka A r L said
this morning. that q telegram had been
sent TO Judge Caldwell signed by com
mittee of the shop men stating that they
had been shut out of work and that
Treasurer Wilder viii give them no ans
wer to the likelihood of their re-
ceivinG their two months back pay.
They ask Judge Caldwell TO notify them
what they might expect and requested
him to send his answer direct to them
Will Mattingly, until recently a brake
man on the Emporia cutoff of the Santa
Fe, came to Topeka from Argentine this
morning to get his time from Superin-
tendent Mcclellan, having been dis
Charged from the company's service for
refusing TO work during the strike.
Mattingly is not an A. r. L. man.
Farmers Throw Rocks the Trains.
"a fellow don't have to be an A X. L.
man to quit down in that country. You
wouldn't either" he said to a JOURNAL
reporter this noon. Il wouldn't 90 out
on my run again for anything. The
farmers down there are dead against
any train that runs over the road. They
think every man that will work on the
Santa Fe Is a 4scab' and as they are in
hearty sympathy with the strikers they
treat them all accordingly. They throw
rocks at the trains and if they keep on
they'll pull up a rail sometime and pile
somebody up. l heard before left
Argentine that they had thrown stones at
one engineers cab and smashed the
glass, but | don't know how true it is.
They don't think much of the new
employees at Argentine, either. If you
ger anything to eat without paying about
seven prices for it you 60 down and eat
in the deputy camp along the river.
friend of mine went into
restaurant at Argentine and had
coffee. eggs and bread and they
lie don't eat there, now. You go into a
restaurant and the first thing you see is
four or i've revOlvers and rife hanging
up on the wall behind the counter la
belled, Loaded for scabs.' Oh, they're
wild down there, but there is no fight
ing"
Mattingly further says that many of
the wholesale houses of Kansas City are
closing down because Of their inability
to make shipments and others of them
are laying OF large parts of their forces
Freight Trains Moving.
For the first time since the opening of
the strike, all the freight trains on this
division of the Santa Fe began running
on time. This looks very much like a
decided victory for the road. The trains.
passenger, freight and all, are running
on time az ain today, and the road offic-
lals announce that they viii keep it up.
Until Yesterday the freight traffic on
this portion OF the Santa Fe had been
practically suspended and very little
freight of any kind was handled at all,
opened its doors wide the result of an
order from headquarters to receive from
this date all shipment all kinds of
freight, perlshabIe or otherwise, except
ing live stock for Chicago. Live
stock for other points viii be received all
boring up, locally. at least
The yards working full crews
again, the places of the five A r. L. men
who refused to work having been filed
by new men. At the roundhouse bust
ness has resumed its usual activity and
The engineers and firemen being
called and are going out as usual
Too Much Politics, says sIoat.
The local lodge of the A. r. L. held its
regular meeting at Trades Assembly hall /
this morning, and the committees held a
meeting this afternoon.
President Sloat says that the sense of /
the meeting this afternoon was that
there will be no more public mass meet /
lnga This thing Is getting to have !
too much politics in it," he said: |
This is a railroad mans fight and I
there is no politics connected with it. /
At whatever meetings we hold hereafter !
none but railroad men will be allowed to !
speak 1 understand that all the out
side speakers we have had are fully in T
sympathy with and our cause, but
they are nearly all Populsts and as
we have a good many Republican mem
bers who object to being dragged /
into the Populist party, we have con
cluded TO take this step. While / am a !
Populist, I believe the kick is substantial
and the demand just For that reason /
there Will be no more public mass meet
ings."
There will be no meeting in town to-
night The leaders will 90 to Oakland !
and hold meeting Of railroad men in
the brick school house The new rule
will be enforced and none but railroad
men allowed to address the meeting.