The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-28


| While thetmen generally sympathize
| with the strike railroad men and are
| feeling bad about the discharge of the
| thirty or more firemen at La Junta last
| night, there is no disposition among the
/ hremen here to quit work and they have
not yet received any orders to do so that
| have been made public
Santa Fe passenger train No. 5, due
here at II 80 is still in Kansas City and
is being held by reason of the strike at
| Argentine, where the switchmen have
refused to make up the train of the Pull
man cars go. An effort has been II. 4de
| to secure other men to make up the
/ train but no one seems willing to do it.
All trains that have no Pullman sleep
! ers are allowed to go out and the local
| trains are all running on time. No. lib
came through at 11:20 all right and ia
went back all right at o'clock this
| afternoon. The road is making an effort
to get No. through from the west this
afternoon and it left Dodge City all right
this morning. The train is carrying
Pullman cars and is due in Topeka at
5:O5 this afternoon.
Little Talk About the Strike.
A JOURNAL reporter was among the
shopmen and trainmen of the Santa Fe
nearly all day. There is surprisingly
little talk about the strike here. There
is more talk of il up town. All the men
are ready to go out on their runs as
usual The engineer and firemen that
were ready and waiting, but when the
situation became known they went home
again, leaving orders to call them if
they were needed. This does not look
much like trouble from that direction.
If there is a strike here at all among
the enginemen it will not be because of
the Pullman trouble but because of the
discharge of the batch of men at La Jun
ia last night. There has been order
/ to that effect received here as yet. how
| CI,.O hoxx 10 to
favoring the strike. eve are not inter
ested," they say "in this Pullman trouble.
We are having a hard enough time to
take care of ourselves. There will be no
sympathic strike There are very few
union men of any kind in the shops and
the non-union men would not obey the
union order to go out. We had our fin
gers burnt once"
A. X. U. Not Organized Here.
The A. R. Z. really has no organiza-
ton here at present, and unless emer-
gency forces it there will be none till the
reorganization meeting Sunday. An
other thing that lessons the liability of
strike here is that the Santa Fe handles
no Pullman cars here. The nearest end
of division is at Kansas City.
Said a union switchman this morning:
ave have not heard that the switchmen
viii go out as a body yet. There are
members of our union in the A. r. U.
| and as they are in the strike il is proba-
BILE that we may yet be compelled TO go
out 1t won't do for part of
to strike and part not to, and we
fellows that are not in it will
not be 'scabs.' We may get an order to
quit work at any time"
There is no doubt that the A. r. Z.
means business. and that if it possibly
can it will draw all the other railway
labor organizations to its aid in
making the strike a success. When
Delegate Ira Mayhall, of La Junta.
spoke to the meeting of railroad
men here Sunday he said among other
things: ave have a sand and gravel pit
at La Junta large enough to hold all the
Pullman coaches in America" and the
men are repeating his utterance here
with significant smiles today.
Mass Meeting Tonight.
There will be an immense mass meet
ing of the railroad men of Topeka at
Trades Assembly hall tonight at
o'clock Both rooms of the hall will be
used and it is expected that several hun
dred men will be present 1he meeting
was called this afternoon and the call
was issued under the auspices of the A.
R. g. and none but known railroad men
will be admitted.
1t is not known positively what the
meeting will try to accomplish. The A.
r. {. expects to have several hundred
more members here tomorrow than it has
today, and it is probable that some sensa-
tional developments will be sprung be-
fore the world is many hours Older.
his is certain: " thin a very short time
the tie up will be universal kilograms are
now being sent to the head men in all
the railroad organizations in America
wherever there is a local lodge and every
road in the country that carries Pullman
cars will be seriously affected. The
leaders here are in hourly communica-
ton with Mr.. Debs and other heads of
the labor movement
very 0rOminept A. R. IL man talLrod
to JOURNAL reporter this afternoon and
said: What does Mr.. Frey mean to
convey to us with his circular about the
Santa Fe receivers being officers
of the court? Is the court to
be an oppressor, too? have
always understood that United States
court was medium of fairness, or was
intended as such: Will the courts of the
people com bine with the railroads to
keep us down. If that is the case it is
expected that we will fight rather than
starve."
En1isting Deputies.
At the general Office building this
afternoon it was announced that u. s.
Marshal Nicely is enlisting deputies
at Leavenworth and has agreed to have
% deputies at Argentine tonight and a |
sufficient force at the other points where |
trouble is expected to control the situa- |
tion.
The marshaPs office in the federal |
building is closed and no deputies are
being enlisted here.
General Manager j. J. Frey who |
reached Topeka shortly before noon on a |
special train has been closeted all after |
noon with committee representing the |
Brotherhoods of Locomotive engineers |
in ard to fh0fr affn in