The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-10
DOLPHIN's
President of the o. r.. IT. Says the Tie
Up of the System Is Complete.

HOUSTON, Tex Dec. 9.-President NJ.
NJ. Dolphin, of the o. r. T., said this
evening that he had received no overtures
for a settlement of the strike and had
made none. He further said that he is
receiving kilograms showing that the new
men employed are not remaining in the
service and other encouraging reports. He
was asked for an Official statement of the
strike and gave the following:
1.-THE strike situation up to 6 o'clock Sun
day evening is very satisfactory to the
strikers and their committee. The tie-up
is most complete and after many days eff
forts on the part of the Santa Fe officials
they are utterly unable to secure as many
as n half dozen telegraphers who are
willing to work for them. This is re-
markable. when ii is known that they
nave advertised in papers in Chicago, st.
Louis, Kansas City, New Orleans and
many other places. offering fancy salaries,
transportation, etc. and a great many men
have taken advantag. OF the liberal offers
of transportation and are taking free rides
from one part of the country TO the
other and promptly bidding the company
adieu when they reach the point to which
they desire to go. There are several idle
telegraphers in Galveston, Houston. Dali
las and other places, but they prefer to re-
main idle rather than work for the Santa
Fe under the circumstances.
THE news WAS heralded far and near
Saturday by the officials that a carload of
telegraphers were on their way from Chi
cago, and that the places of the strikers
would be filled, but when the train reached
Texas, where the weather is not so cold
as it is in Chicago, ii developed that the
supposed carload of biographies were
brick masons and plumbers, and they
laughingly left the train. Several cases of
this kind have been reported from different
points along the line.
"a telegram from Pueblo, Col, informs us
that all Offices between Pueblo and Denver
are closed Another TnaCGQOQ from thA
Needles. Cal, says: Arizona tied up until
only three men working I'm the Territory
The last advices from that great stretch
Of country between La Junta, Col. and Al
buquerque, N. NJ, are to the effect that
only one man is at his post. This is certainly
a most serious blow TO the railroad COM
pany, as operators are absolutely necessary
70 the movement of the trains throughout
that wild and mountainous district. An
other message informs us that the only
man working east of La Junta, Col. is
the superintendent of telegraph at Topeka.
Kan. From Chicago TO La Junta. Col, is a
long stretch. and heretofore as many IA
20p or coo operators and agents were re-
CURED for the safe movement of trains
and the roper handling OF business. There
fore Ii would seem that the railway is
seriously handicapped by reason of the
strike. This being Sunday. the men nave
been a little quiet, probably taking some
much-needed rest after two or three days
OF excitement.
'It woula seem that the effort to run
trains blindly without the aid OF train
orders. which are so necessary in the num-
Der of trains on a single-track road. would
be extremely dangerous. both to the rail-
way company and the travelling public
One smash-up woufd cost more than the
t~elegrapher's salary. would amount to in
ten years. The strike, however, is a lust
one and will be fought 10 the bitter end
No settlement will be made until every man
Is protected and returned to his former
position. T~elegraphers. when on strike.