The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-13
UNFRIENDLY TO new MEN
Hostile Receptions TO the Non.
Union Santa Fe Operators.
Driven Out of Several Towns TO
Which They Have Been Scnt-Fre-
officials Claim n Victory, But the
Strikers Are Confident of Success.

DALLAS, Tex, Dec. 12.-If there is any
is not apparent TO the puDlIc. The rail-
way officials claim TO have tae.r sta .ions
manned with new men, and that they are
conducting their affairs urder normal
conditions. The o. X. T. strike managers
call this fiction. They say a cons d rable
number of new men have been placed at
stations as agents, but there is hardly an
operator among them.
Reports of unfriendly receptions to new
men by the people among whom they are
sent continue to reach Dallas rom the
small towns. At Midlothian on Monday
last the new agent and operator were
persuaded by citizens comm ttee to
walk out of town. The company on Tues
day morning put three new men a. the
station. Last night a mob smashed The
station windows and created a wild s.ene.
The three new men fled. The sheriff of
Ellis County today detailed two deputy
sheriffs to guard the Midlothian station
and protect another new man who was
put in charge of the company's business S.
The new men in the indian Territory are
reported to be having serious experiences.
oue Vi tHe "OToL ID 10 get SOiueIGluS ~
eat. Meals are placed SO high and gen.
eral conditions so severe that they find
little pleasure in the situation. For ex-
ample, the new man at Marietta cannot
get n boarding house or other accommo-
dations. He has to so to Ardmore, dis
lance of twenty-five miles. for his meals.
Men at o. R. T. local headquarters to-
day and tonight were in cheerful spirits.
They claim everything is coming their
way, and that they are willing to wait
and will. They denied responsibility of
the order for any rough work done to-
ward new men. Quite a number of Ion
union men who had been brought here by
the Santa Fe trains were induced to leave
town over other roads.
1t was stated at o. r. T. headquarters
that the next important news from their
side Of the controversy is likely to come
from President Dolphin, either at Wichit.,
or Topeka, Kan. He is supposed to have
reached one of those places tonight from
Galveston. Among the statements given
out today was that one of the Santa Te
train crews on the Cleburne. Dallas and
Paris line had mutinied against the COM
pany. and that other men took the train
out from Cleburne to Paris this morning.
1t is stated that the regular crew
claimed that they escaped a terrible acct
dent yesterday by the narrowest margin
between Ben Franklin and Ambia stations
because of having to run without train or
ders and they declined to take another
such risk.
CHICAGO. Dec. 1--WE have secured
men to fill all the places made vacant by
the striking operators, said Vice Presi-
dent Barr of the Santa Fe tonight. 'All
trains are running as before the strike.
No trouble was reported today at any
point on the system and no further cases
of ill-treatment to newly engaged oper-
ators have occurred and there has been no
interference with the property of the COM
pany. The strike is thing OF the past;
we have closed the book
Local members of the Order of Railway
Photographers who joined in the Santa Fe
strike say the end has not come They
declare that very few of the men hired to
take their places are competent to fill
them. They refuse to believe the state
ment of officials that all places have been
filed. The strikers say they have salts
factory assurances that other organiZa-
tons of Santa Fe employees will join in
the strike if it appears necessary to save
the Order of Railway Telegraphers from
defeat. officials of the Santa Fe profess
to feel no fear Of a Sympathetic strike.