The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13
The STRIKE GOESON. WANT BIGGER CUT
Operators on the Santa Fe System
Are Still Out.

GalveSton, lex, 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,
Badonia and other North Texas sta
tions, where, he claims, the Gulf, Colo
RADIO g. 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 95 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 Order
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.
Says Is Is Practically over.
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 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 result of
the strike. The officials later decided
it 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:
1.-THE strike amounts to so little, and the
situation so favorable, that to shut down
the shops is not necessary. If the operators
had succeeded In tielng 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 be
the regular work to do, and no reason why
1t should not be done. We have word that
on the California lines the operators are
back to work; on the Southern California
and San Joaquin Valley there are none
out. They went out when the order to
rib ant hut moi hoa chn flry
afterward. They have no grievance, and
are under contract. On the Santa Fe Pa
cihc 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"
Opinions Differ.
C. G. 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 filling 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
an end. The officials are all of one
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.