The Topeka state journal., 1902-07-11
RAILROAD NEWS.
Santa Fe Has Another Strike on
Its Hands.
Machinists on Gulf Lines Have
Walked Out.
MORE MEN SENT WEST.
ssCOntract Lab0rers'' Are Filling
the BOilermakers' Places.
Union Pacific Strike Is at a
Deadlock.

1t is reported tnat the santa re Guil
line is mixed up with another strike,
this time it being the nachinists who
have gone out. The understanding is
that the strike is the result of the walk
out at Cleburne. which was reported
in Thursdays State Journal. This was
caused by the change of a workman
from one kind of work to another. and
is said to be intensified by the desire
of the machinists for more pay.
The strike is said to affect all the
Santa Fe shops south of Purcell Shops
are located at Cleburne and Temple,
Texas, and smaller shops at Purcell,
stood that about 800 men are out.
Superintendent of Motive Power
Henderson has gone to the scene of the
trouble. and it is also understood that
ent, is also at Cleburne or on the way
there.
In the absence of a statement from
Superintendent of Motive Power Hen
derson the company's side of the ma
chinists' strike situation at Cleburne
appears as this: A workman laid off a
few days on account of sickness or
something of that sort and when he
came back the foreman had assigned
his machine to another man. The first
n nachinist refused to go to other work,
and the whole shop backed him up in
his refusal The master mechanic of the
is Frederick L. Carson, formerly fore
man of the Topeka roundhouse, late
general foreman at that point and only
recently promoted to his present posi-
ton. w. E. SymOnS, the mechanical
superintendent of the Gulf lines, is also
new man with the company, having
taken hold only about two months ago,
when ne gave up the superintendency
OF motive power of the Plant system at
Savannah Ga
| More contract men" are being put to
work by the Santa Fe company in the
bo1lermaking department of the shops
or-7i 7ix,o MI
ficials claim that they are getting the
work done now in very satisfactory
manner. On the other hand, letter
received by the State Journal today
from one of the strikers states that
there are % dead engines in the shops
| at Needles, and many more than that
number at San Bernardino, and that all
the strikers have to do is to wait for the
shortage OF motive power to win the
strike for them The letter to the State
Journal says:
Eighteen men are still out at Nee
| dies and will remain SO until the trou-
BILE is settled satisfactorily to them
| whether that be month or a year
longer. Good order prevails and the
| workmen say they are simply waiting
for the exigencies of the occasion to
| demand their reinstatement. Twelve OF
| the Is strikers are married, although
1t is understood that few of them have
their wives and families there"
The San Bernardino newspapers can
| d1dly admit that things are very much
| in the dark in regard to the progress
| OF the strike, and that information as
| to where they are at will be thank>
| fully received.
| The Sun says: "Stories wild eyed and
wooHy have shown themselves thick
| and fast Tips, right hot off the inside
range, have been offered but the plain
| truth of the matter is that the local
| railroad men and the striking boiler
makers. at this point. are about as
much in the dark as to the proposed
| and rumOred settlement as is Aguinaldo
| or Little Boy Blue. The strikers have
! heard not even a word from their grand
| lodge officers for almost a week while
the railroad officials are not certain as
to whether the trouble will be settled
| Christmas or not until later If we
! keep our contract men here much long
| er they Will all be experts whether they
| were when they arrived or not SAID
| one of the shop foremen yesterday. q
heard one of the men remark the other
| day that, if there were any of the boys
| who didn t know a amOnkeywrench from q
steam hammer when they arrived this
was certainly good time and at gooo
| wages to serve his apprenticeship
Another batch of the contract men ar
rived in the yards yesterday morning
and have taken up their headquarters
| at the Hotel d'Box Car, which isn't the
| best argument in the world that the
| management has come to a settlement
i with the lodge officials of the union.
SITUATION ON UNION PACIFIC.
Omaha, Neb-, July 11.-Union Pacific
officials and strike leaders each reassert
that their respective positions are be-
| coming materially strengthened as each
| day passes. The strikers point with
pride to their assertion that there has
not been a single detection from Their
ranks and that the greatest harmony
and determination prevails. Railroad
officials made the claim today that il
was no longer necessary to hire any
but the most experienced men, an6
that the company now gives each appli-
cant rigid examination before sending
him to work They say the shops are
being rapidly filled with skilled me.
chanics.
Both sides are keeping all shops wei
picketed. Vice President Wilson start.
ed for another round up of the shops o.
the system.