Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-12-14
THE SANTA FE STRIKE.
Railway OmcinIs Claim II Is n FALL
urc-Operntors Are Certain
of Success.

Chicago. Dec. 1.-THE regularity
with which trains are running on the
Santa Fe system indicates that the
backbone of the telegraphers' strike
is nearly broken. Members of other
railway unions seem disinclined to
join in n sympathetic strike. The
telegraph operators still express con-
fidence of winning, but their chief
basis of hope is in the lack of expert
ence of the new men who have taken
their places. Statements given out
at strikers headquarters in the west
assert that trains are not running,
but strikers in Chicago concede that
they are. The company announced
Monday that it lacked only $50 of it's
full complement of operators. The
normal condition was declared re-
stored at noon, when it was given out
that all passenger trains were rum
ming on time and the freight service
was practically equal to its usual
capacity.
Galveston, Tex, Dec. 11.-President
Dolphin, of the Order of Railway Tele-
graphers, has issued circular on the
strike situation which he telegraphed
to all operators assuring them that
success would crown their efforts. He
cited freight congestion at Wolf City,
Ladonia and other North Texas sta
tions, where, he claims. the Gulf, Colo
RADIO & Santa Fe cannot handle the
business. He claims to have heard
from operators as far west as Califor-
mia, and as far east as Chicago. and
that at least % per cent. of the opera
tors on the Santa Fe system are out.
President Dolphin emphatically denies
the truth of the alleged statement
from Chairman Newman, of the Orde-
of Railway Telegraphers. to the effect
that Newman instructed all the men to
return to work and that the company
had agreed to arbitrate. Mr.. Dolphin
says that Newman never made such
statement and declares that officers of
the railroad company are authority for
the statement, which. he says, is un-
true in every particular. He says the
operators on the western divisions in
California and New Mexico did not go
out until six o'clock Sunday afternoon.
Topeka, Kan, Dec. 1.-THE officials
of the Santa Fe railroad say that the
strike of telegraph operators is prac.
tically over. The operators themselves
continue in the belief that their case
is a winning one, and say the prospects
look better now than they have been
at any time yet. The men in the Santa
Fe shops here went to work as usual
Monday morning. An order had been
issued closing the shops as a result OF
the strike. The officials later decided
il to be useless for the shops TO be kept
closed. as they say the strike will be OF
small proportions.
General Manager Nudge processes to
be sanguine that the strike is at an end,
and talks as follows regarding the re-
vocation of the order for closing the
shops:
THE strike amounts to so little, and the
situation so favorable that TO shut down
the shops Is not necessary. II the operators
had succeeded in tieins up the system and
prevented the operation of trains we would
have had nothing for the men in the shops
TO do. As 1t Is, with our trains running
very close to schedule and no practical in
terruption to our business. there will he
the regular work to do, and no reason why
IL should not be dore. We have word that
on the California lines the operators are
and San Joaquin Valley there are none
out. They went out when the order to
strike was sent. but came BACK shortly
afterward. They have no griceance, and
are under contract. On the Santa Fe Pa
citc there are about so operators out ac-
cording to our information. One hundred
and twenty-three men went out on the
Gulf line in the original strike, which was
the whole number employed"
C. q. Sholes, superintendent of tele-
graph, says he is receiving numerous
applications from outside telegraphers
for positions in answer to advertise
ments he has inserted in all the lead
ing daily papers. He anticipates little
trouble in filing all the places he has
under his control. In common with
the other officials Mr.. Sholes is profuse
in his assurances that the strike is at
opinion. that the strike is ended in most
places. but cannot explain the absence
of men from the office here. Not one
of the Topeka operators has returned
to work and from reports received from
over the division the strikers here seem
to think they have gained the day.
Opinions as to the duration of the
strike differ. The men think they will
win. but are afraid it will take them a
long time. The officers of the road will
set no time for the operations of the
road to return to their normal condi-
ton.