The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-12-12
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Polk, Galveston: The following from Mr..
Neyin for your information;
: Los Angeles, Call December 1D-lTo
j. M. Barr, Oh cago, H.: Yours tonight.
Am glad TO hear such favorable rep5rts
cas- Of Albuquerque. AT 10 D. m. every
tEine Is going ON smoothly with us. Prac-
tically all PAGES have been filled on all
divisions. Trains moving on time.
freight bns.nsss very heavy.
w G. Nevin.'
~. NJ. Barr"
President Dolphin gave out the follow
ing staiement at O'Clock this evening;
The headquarters OF the telepraghers'
committee at the fremont hotel has been
| flooded with letters and Helegrame from
strategic points along the line. giving
statements which do not at all agree
with the rosea.e bulletins issued by the
officials of the road. Representa- OF
the order have wired from Chicago thai
very careful investigation reveals the
fact that 80 per cent of the men sent our
from that city to take the strikers places
have been members of other trades and
professions who, finding the company an
easy mark" took advantage of tne offer
OF transportation and meals and came
south to see If they might not better
tnelr condition in their own line of labor;
the other 10 per cent were mostly mem
to help the company along. Ten opera-
tors who came into Dallas on company
transportation have continued on toward
New Orleans and only about Ave have
ever reached destination on the gulf
line, and these are being looked after by
the strikers. All Valley Mills two deputy
sherins and two section men are guard
ing the newly Installed agent. who is not
an operator and who is as safe from vio-
q 10 bp In hic
on the fourth floor of the company build
ing in Galveston. At Arcadia a deputy
sheriff guards the newly indicted agent.
to whom not even the threat of violence
has been offered
In this connection it may as well be
said right here that yhese men who have
struck for hat they believe to be the
right are among the most lawabding citi-
2ens of Texas; the efforts OF the company
to make it appear that the strikers CON
templated the destruction of property in
order to attain their desires, and the fire.
quent use OF bogus kilograms only go TO
snow TO what desperate means men may
resort to bolster up falling and losing
cause.
NO effort on the part of the railway
company can ever convince the public
that the men whom they have known and
associated with for years would be guilty
of resorting to violence to back up the
right, and consequently the posting OF
placards offering rewards for wire-cut-
ters and the stattoning of deputy sheriffs
at stations is but an evidence OF the
weakness of the position held by the
company officials. Some OF the letters
received by the telegraphers committee
are from citizens not at all connected
with or affected by the strike but who
express a lncpe that the telegraphers will
win because of the business Of their dc.
mands
AS to the statements issued broadcast
from the company officials as to freight
trains running on schedule time is some
what denied by the facts 1t Is hardly
probable that those who have the man
agement of the road in their care should
be ignorant OF the fact Vhat several trains
OF stock were held in the pens at San
Angelo for thirty hours waiting for trains,
nor should they he ignorant Of the fact
that Two of these stock trains were laid
out eight hours on the night of the 9Th
because of the shortage OF telegrpher5
to help them over the road. In view OF
these facts which have come TO the COM
mittee's headquarters, 1t may be reason
able to presume that matters are not
running as smoothly as the officials
would lead the public to believe.
"A s,enographer who dropped into the
headquarters a day or two since intimated
that the presidents of the various rail-
ways had been seriously considering
project for dsrupting several OF the la
Dor organizations now working on their
lines; llat ne had been employed in ham
ding tine correspondence of one of the
parties to the agreement and that he Sc
riously believed that President Ripley's
presence in New York last week was In
connection with this venture. The strike
of the photographers on the Santa Fe was
a little earlier than expected, but that
he believed that now that war had begun
1t would be pushed to the conclusion par
italy outlined in the preliminary agree
ment. This is given for what IL Is worth.
Big union meetings of the machinists.
conductors. trainn.en and firemen have
been held ait Needles, Colo; Los Vegas,
N. NJ. Pueblo, Cal Ration, ". NJ
Gainesville. Texas: Ci' burne. Texas, and
several other points, indorslng the ac-
ton of the telegraphers and slgnifyins
their Willingness to assist in bringing
about a settlement,
This action is entirely voluntary on
their part. On being notified of the re-
suit OF these meetings President Dolphin
placed himself in communication with
the executive officers OF other organiza-
lions.
1t is for them to say whether they 20
out or not. For our part we are well
DleaSel with the H9nt as IL is. NJ Sucn
action Is taken 1t Will be entirely volun-
tary on the part of the other organiza-
tons.
All Southern Pacific men have been
notified by their local Offices TO dlscon-
biuhe handiing Santa Fe business.
THE fenng-ing Telegram was received
this evening:
NJ NJ. Dolphin.
Perry, o Tout Of 100 men on the
Oklahoma division only ave are al work.
G. r. Fleming.
Colonel Polk gave out the following
statement tonight:
At 10 o'clock tonight conditions on line
show continued Improvement. Passen-
ger trains are on time. with execution
OF some delay to branch trains accent
detouring Between Celeste and Dallas
via Missouri Kansas and Texas account
wreck at Cedar Lake. On Lsrpsaas
branch we have operators at Brown
wood aud San Angelo Two tr7irs o.
stock cut OF San Angelo abrut noon
passed Brownwcni at 5; 20 aud 40 p. m
and will reach Temple by miduiSht- Us
a general proposition. there Is bat LITTLE
IL any decrease in passenger traffic or
freight. There is practically 70 more
DELAYED business on line that Is usual