The Worthington advance., 1900-12-14

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order. Il 4 d. ss 81 tE e.
. When the order was given the men
turned their signals at the various sta
tions along the line so that. the red
lights would show. This: being the sig
nal for trains to stop, most of them
were tied up for q time until dummies
could be dispatched to- turn the signals
and permit the trains to run on sched-
ule time. - ~ : " = i.
The strike is. purely sympathetic
and >. has been called to support the de-
;mands of the 800 operators who since
Thursday have been out on strike on
the Gulf, Colorado and San Francisco
division of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railroad. The dispute there
has been, regarding wages and rules
and the strike was called following re.
fusal Of the railway officials to arbi.
trate. The points at issue were not in
themselves considered Of the highest
Importance, but the great cause of com.
plant was based upon the corporation's =
refusal to permit the dispute to be set.
tied by arbitration. The total amount
OF the: salary in dispute on the Calves
ton branch did not aggregate more
than $195 month nor were the rules
at issue of vital Importance.
Dispatches. from divisional points
along the line of the Santa Fe rail.
way indicate tn: t the great system is
badly crippled by the strike of the
telegraphers, trains being late and
in some instances "lost." All passen.
ger trains are moving, however, and
many freight trains are struggling
along as best they can. Passenger
traffic, Topeka reports, has been
greatly, reduced. While admitting
some embarrassment, the officials o1
the road in Chicago and other cities
declare that the strike is broken: that
before the week is over operators will
have been provided for all of the va
cant positions and the train service
will again be on normal basis. The
officers of the Order of Railway Teleg
raphers take hopeful view of the
situation, President Dolphin declar
ing at Galveston that the strike is fa1
more effective than the railway mer
are willing to admit. .e.
Topeka, Kan, Dec: 1o.-The officials
of the Santa Fe road take decidedly
hopeful view of the telegraphers
strike situation. They all say the
backbone of the strike is practically
broken already, and that the affair.
of the road will be in their, norma
condition inside of two weeks The
officers felt justified, in view Of the
alleged improvement in conditions, in
resembling the order closing the shops
Strikers representatives say that
practically all the telegraphers on the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe prope,
are still out. A few men returned tc
work Sunday morning under the i'm
preston that the strike had been
called off, and were later on induced
to join the strikers. Later in the
day they were all out to man west
of Emporia. Not a man will return tc
work unless their grievances are set.
tied in the fullest possible manner
Some of them have already other
prospects offered them on other roads
and will accept them if the Santa Fe
management persists in it's present
course. 49,.
Kansas City, Mo-, Dec. 1o.-The Times
says: Within the next 4s hours the
walk-out of the Santa Fe operators
may widen into a general strike and
the members of the Order of Railway
Photographers be Joined by those of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
the Order of Railway Conductors, the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and the Brotherhood of Railway Train.
men. Such is the danger that tele.
graphers say now threatens the great
passenger and freight business Of the
Santa Fe from Chicago to the Pacific
coast and the Gulf of Mexico.