El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-12
Both Sides In the Strike
Claim Victory
But the
END is NOT YET
The Operators, Although Dis
PLACED BY Non-Unlon
Men. Say They Will
Win Out.

CHICAGO. Dec. 12-'Today the op-
orators strike is ended, so far as det-
rimental effects to the Santa Fe sys-
tenn are concerned" announced third
vice president Barr this morning.
I'VE have employed the last of the
men it was necessary to secure to hll
the places of the strikers The men
are here and in lie east and it Will
be a week later before we can distr1b-
ute them. We send a carload west to-
day.
Since the strike is practically end
ed we have reached the decision never
again to employ any of the men who
Joined it. Whether other roads will re-
fuse to employ them or not we do not
know"
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Dec. 12-Chairman
Newman, of the striking telegraphers,
says the general situation is most en-
couraging. All the operators who re-
turned to work on false information
are again out. There is no break
News from all sources on the Santa
Fe operators strike is as badly mud
died today as it was yesterday; how
ever. everything seems much bright
er for the company.
All trains are running on schedule
time and the company has lost very
little business on account of the strike.
although it appears that all is not yet
over.
Local operators have received notice
that the management of the o. R. t.
will resort to other ways of bringing
the company TO time but just how this
will be done has not been announced.
The o. r. T. men from all the diff
ferent divisions have representatives
in Denver today to attend a general
conference which may result in orga-
nizing another move to assist the
strikers.
The Santa Fe has secured almost
enough non-union operators to operate
the western lines without trouble and
if nothing more comes up they will
pay no further attention to the order.
Vice President Barr, who is handling
the strike, sent out a statement last
night that he had almost won the
fight and instructed all agents not to
give employment to the operators who
have gone out on the strike. He
claims that they have broken their
agreement with the company and have
no further claim on it.
The operators have given no reply
to this statement yet as they have not
applied for work. They seem to think
they will win the fight and have not
bothered with the threats of the COM
pany. The situation on the Gulg line
according to the advices received by
the members of the o. r. T. here, is
unchanged. They still thing they will
win and have not yet asked the assis-
tance of the other railroad orders.
They contend that the trainmen stand
ready to help them out but they will
not be called upon until the last re-
sort
A meeting of all railroad orders is
called in Topeka tomorrow mroning
whine the situation will be thoroughly
discussed and possibly some action
taken. 1t now seems very probable
that if the other orders do not come
to the assistance of the operators they
will lose the fight.
The company still claims that very
small per cent of the men on the main
line have gone out but the order Of
ficials say that 95 per cent, have quit
and that most of the men now at work
are scabs. This will not suit the
trainmen and they may yet refuse to
take orders from non-union men.
The Southern Pacific operators al
Kern Junction and Mojave, California
have refused to take Santa Fe mes
sages or handle Santa Fe trains but
the S. P. has made no complaint at
their action.
You can depend upon it that the
strike is not over" said a local opera
tor this morning, "for something will