Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-12-10
STRIKERS MAKE
NO HEADWAY.
Trains on the Santa Fe System are
Reported to Be Running as
Usual.
COMPETENT MEN SECURED.
Strikers Places are Being Taken by New
Men Many Strikers Have Already Re
turned to Work-The Strike is
Not Effective.

Fresno, Cal, December 10-John w.
Hays, the local chairman of the D. r.
T., and member of the Chicago griev-
ance committee, makes the following
statement: LAS far as can be ascer-
tanned, every operator on the San Joa-
quin Valley division of the Santa Fe
went out promptly at p. m. Sunday. j..
A. Newman, general chairman of the
order, wired me: The company shows
evidence toward an early settlement. :"
The dispatcher's office here says all
trains are on time, and only four men
are out.
THE STRIKE NOT EFFECTIVE.
Chicago, December 10.-J. M. Barr,
third vice president of the Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe, declared to-day
that the railway operators strike is not
effective west of Albuquerque and on
the Galveston, Colorado and Santa Fe
roads Between 400 and 500 men, he said,
were out on the southern Kansas, Okla
homa and western divisions.
FREIGHT TRAINS RUNNING.
l.. J. Polk, general manager of the
Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe, wired Mr..
Barr to-day that twenty-one freight
trains on the northern division and
twelve on the southern division were
running as usual. OF thirty-two men
sent to take places of strikers, nineteen
went to work, while the others desert
ed
w. G.. Nevin, of the Santa Fe, mana
ger at Los Angeles, telegraphed that
the road is running as usual in the VAL
ley division, competent men having
been secured for all but four unimpor-
tant stations. Many strikers have re-
turned to work. The fruit shippers,
Nevin said, have been notified that the
Santa Fe could handle business up TO
their limit of their equipment.
Cattle trains are not being material
ly delayed" said Barr. 1--WE are having
no trouble getting men. A hundred men
from here and as many more from ott-
er cities have been sent to Topeka, from
which place they will be sent to other
points as needed feel sure that there
VII; be no sympathetic strikes of man
on the other branches of the service -
SEVERAL TELEGRAPHERS RE-
MANNED AT WORK.
A Las Vegas dispatch says:
"Out of total of fifty-four men be-
tween Trinidad and Albuquerque, and
including the two men at Trinidad and
the four at Albuquerque, but not in
Guiding the seven operators in this city,
there are only two men working, one at
Thornton, near Cerrillos, and one at
Dillon, the first station this side of Ra-
ton OF the seven operators in Las We
gas, two are out, and it is likely that
when conference is held between the
day and night men in the morning they
will also be out. The completeness of
the tie-up is shown by the fact that the
duplex wire on which there is no inter
ference between here and Topeka is not
working"
THE MEN GO OUT RELUCTANTLY.
A telegram from Albuquerque states:
Thirty members of the Order of Rail-
way Telegraphers went out at Albu-
querque and points on the Santa Fe
branch south of this city at $50 o'clock
Saturday afternoon. On the Santa Fe
lines west of Albuquerque, 226 men left
their keys at $50 o'clock. Though the
men on the western lines, whose de-
mands had so recently been granted,
obeyed the orders of the chief with ex-
treme reluctance, not an operator re-
fused to go out.
'The strikers here are certain that
the united action of the operators on the
Santa Fe will force the company to
concede to the demands of their fell
lows ON the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe. Every key in the Albuquerque Of
fees was started ten minutes after the
men went out, and there has been no
delay either of freight or passenger
traffic. The men in the Santa Fe-Pacific
shops here worked till the usual time
this afternoon, but We're notified that
work would not be resumed until the
strike of railway telegraphers was set
tied"
STATEMENT BY A STRIKE LEAD
Err.
Wichita, Kan, December 10.-The fol.
lowing statement was issued at II
o'clock by General Chairman Newman
of the Santa Fe system telegraphers
"The situation is brighter than 1t has
been since the strike was inaugurated
Word has come to me from different
sources that the Santa Fe officials arr
sending out bogus kilograms over my
alleged signature, wherein order tn,
men to return to work, as the strike hal
been temporarily adjusted. During tn,
last eighteen hours, twenty-five or f1ft!
men quit who were taken in to fill th'
places of strikers. If any attempt il
made by the Santa Fe to pass freigh
over the Missouri Pacific, the operator
on that road will leave. The same {,
true of the Frisco, Southern Pacific an,
other roads that connect with the Sant.
Fe."
THE STRIKE FIZZLING OUT.
Chicago, December 10.-From advice
received to-day, the officials of the San
!, ia Fe company are fully convinced tha
the telegraphers' strike is nearly owe,
Third Vice President Barr receive
from General Manager Nudge at Tope
ka the following message:
Newman, at Wichita, Is sendin
messages to all the operators tellin
them that they agreed with Preslden
Ripley to arbitrate, and can return t
work, subject to call again."