The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-14
Reply to the Acting Governor Of Col
orado, Who Requested that Strike
Questions BE Arbitrated.
LABOR FEDERATION ACTIVE
MANY RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT
YESTERDAYS SESSION.
Spirited Debate on the Trust Question,
which Ended i'm a Victory for the
Conservative Element.

TOPEKA. Kan, Dec. 13.-The most i'm
portant development in the Santa re
strike situation to-day was the declaration
OF President Ripley, of the company, that
the time for arbitration had passed. This
morning Chairman Walker, of the board
of directors. and President Ripley received
the following telegram from Francis Car
ney. acting Governor of Colorado. who sent
it after conference with committee or
telegraphers at Denver:
'Tn behalf Of the people of the State of
Colorado, after due investigation, the
locked-out telegraphers of your railroad
are absolved from any completely IN re-
cent outrages on certain employees who
have taken the places OF these men in this
state. The interests of the people or the
State and the patrons Of your road would
be materially subserved were the differ
ences existing between the management
and the telegraphers submitted to arbitra-
ton ard settled as speedily as possible"
President Ripley, of the Santa Fe Com
pany. sent the following reply to Leuten-
ant Governor Carney:
Have given your message most careful
consideration, and regret that circum-
stances preclude compliance with your sug-
gestioDs. The striking telegraphers hith-
erto employed on our lines in Colorado did
not strike owing to any grievance against
the company. On the contrary by the
course they pursued, they violated their
Obligations, technical and moral, obliga-
tions which, on our part, have been fully
lived up to in every respect. The company
has not charged strikers with committing
outrages on employees. The public and the
authorities of the law must judge as to
who Is guilty. Under all circums tances it
is manifest that the time for arbitration
has passed"
In an Interview President Ripley said:
''As far as the Santa Fe road is con-
cerned, the strike is a closed incident. The
time for argument or arbitration is past.
Not more than 40 per cent. of the operators
went on strike. We have recovered from
the effects of their going out. The argu-
ment is all over. When a fellow strikes
you in the face you don't stop to argue
any further. 1t Is presumed that all argu-
ment is in when the fight begins. The
places Of the strikers have about all been
filed and the strike has ceased to give the
officers of the road any serious concern"
Aldace F. Walker. chairman Of the board
of directors, said: what is there to ar
bitrate? The strikers have broken their
own rules, as understand it, when they
did not take vote among themselves.
They certainly broke their contract with
the company. Further consideration can
not be expected"
President Dolphin, of the o. X. T., arrived
in Topeka this morning at o'clock. He
viii have his headquarters in Topeka for
the present, making trips from here to
various points on the line as occasion de-
mands. Arbitration of all differences that
have arisen in the Santa Fe strike will be
accepted by the telegraphers,'' said Presi-
dent Dolphin in an interview. I'VE are
willing to submit these questions to dis
interested persons. We will accept the
Governor of Colorado, the Governor of
Kansas or the Governor of Texas as arbi-
traitor, or We will refer the dispute. with
the schedule asked by the Gulf operators.
to General Manager Van Week. of the
Southern Pacific. Isn't it most fair and
reasonable offer to leave the question In the
hands of practical railroad man who is
also an official of the Southern Pacific?"
Mr.. Dolphin confirms the statement that
his pass was taken up during his trip here
from Galveston. In discussing the strike
tonight Mr.. Dolphin gave out the follow
ing statement: THE status of the Atchison
strike this evening is most reassuring and
our success seems certain. That the public
may not be misled and our men Imposea
upon 1t should be understood that the last
endeavor of the men on the Gulf lines to
avoid the existing conflict was to earnestly
request the president and vice president of
the Atchison system to agree to refer all
existing differences to arbitration, to which
request Mr.. Ripley and Mr.. Barr both re-
piled peremptorily, refusing TO arpItrate or
to consider the rules governing conditions
OF the service
Regarding Rule 80 and the charge Of bad
faith on the part Of operators, MIR. Dolphin
said: Rule 80 does not contemplate that
an employe shall give a months notice be-
fore he quits the service any more than it
requires the company to give a months
notice before dismissing employe for
cause or in reducing the force"