The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-26
DEMANDS ARE REFUSED.
Santa Fe Boilermakers Now Want
Pay at San Bernardino Raised.

santa Ee Boilermakers Now Want
Pay at San Bernardino Raised
The San Bernardino Sun prints a full
account of the conference recently held
at Los Angeles between the committee
representing the striking Santa Ee
bOilerma1ers and General Manager
Wells Of the coast lines. The report CT
the conference is in the form of an
interview with W. ]. Richie, boiler in
spectOr for the Santa Fe, who acted as
arbitrator between the company and
the strikers
In telling the story, Mr. Richie says
th&t MI Wells remarked at the first
conference:
Why not return to your work and
let me work with the officials for the
raise which you desire2'
Mr. Wells, was the reply, we do
not care for anything better than that
which has been offered US It was our
purpose in coming to you to accept the
proftered 40 cents an hour and time and
a quarter overtime
But 1 am in no position to grant
you even that answered the general
manager. Mr.. Henderson may have
made such a statement, but [ have re-
eeived no instructions to that effect
We are certain, however resumed
Mr. Richie, that Henderson had made
such a proposition, and We asked Mr..
Wells to do the best he could with the
proposition, telling him that he might
nave as long as he desired in which
With this we left him, 1t then being
the afternoon Of Wednesday,
Thursday morning I called at ais
office. No news
ing. - Inns
This morning went to headquarters
at 1880 and was met by Mr. Wells who
told me that matters had come to a
mead and might return at $3.50 in the
afternoon, bringing with me Messrs.
charlton and Negebaur We were there
TO the minute. For several minutes Mr.
Welis SAID nothing. He then looked up
ana said; Men, I am sorry to say thar
1 can do nothing for you That is to say
SO Iar as your proposition is concerned.
nave but one proposition to make
ana that IS that the company will be
wiling to place at work on next Mon
dany noon as many Of the men now
out as 1t may have use for
W. then on our part stated that we
We're sorry, but that we still stood by
our proposition and that We now went
furpher than that, again making all of
our former demands namely: 40 cents
an hour and time and a half in Needles:
the reinstatement of all men now out;
the abolition of men now filling the
places of the strikers: the condenna-
ton of the blacklist and the reinstate-
ment of Wilson.
In concluding the interview Mr. Wells
said that in all of his experience he
had never before come in contact with
CON mittee which conducted itself in
such a gentlemanly manner and which
presented Its case with suchinte1ligence.
as mad the one with which he was about
TO part. And we on our part, not for
the sake of returning the compliment
but because it is the truth wish to
make the public statement that with all
of our dealings with railway officials
since we first entered the shops of any
system, never have We conferred with
more just and conscientious officer
than Mr. Wells
Js.,4 -l~.-
went to the telegraph office and wired
Grand President Mcneil Of the result
" es, 1 am perfectly confident that
this final breach viii result in a call
out, answered Mr. Richie in reply to
the question put to him. Just when
this Will take place I cannot state posi-
lively, but do not believe that it will
be later than on next Wednesday or
possibly Tuesday morning. No, I do
not believe that it will extend as far
east as Topeka, as has been stated, but
it will go as far as Winslow and will
include Bakersfield and Point Rich
mond."
FURTHER DEMANDS.
Among the demands which the boiler
makers viii make before they again agree
yiding that the bOilermakers in the San
Bernardino shops be given 80 cents per
hour. 1t is stated that yesterdays meet
ing in Los Angeles viii positively be the
last which viii take place between the
strikers and the Santa Fe manag cement I'M
less the latter seek such another interview
WILL DIVIDE WITH THE APPREN-
TTCES
According to statements made by the
bonermakers last night they viii stand by
the apprentice bows until the trouble is
settled They will today take steps to
ascertain If their grand lodge viii allow
them to divide their allowance money with
the II apprentices who went out in sym
pathy with them.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC BOILERMAK X RS
ORGANIZE.
Last evening all of the Southern Pacific
boilermakers in Los Angeles organized
themselves into a lodge.
It is stated positively that of late the
Santa Fe has been shipping freight over
the Southern Pacific tracks in Southern
Pacific trains to FL Paso. and from thence
north over its own system to Topeka. The
boilermakers of the Southern Pacific say
they know such to be the case and have
banded themselves together in order to pre-
vent the continuance of such proceedings
intimating that unless their company
ceases to handle this foreign traffic it may
prepare to look for trouble from its boiler