Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-05-03
SITUATION IN
ALBUQUERQUE
Duke City TO Be Distri-
button Point For South
west. Big Lot Of Men
Pass Through Las We
gas Last Wight

Last night three carloads OF strike
breakers arrived in the city says Mon
days Journal. OF these two wen
through to the coast lines towns ant
d car was left here. Another car Of
about ~thirty-fve men who have beer
1t work ii the local shops for q few
days were also sent west. From this
it would seem that Albuquerque is to
become the distributing point for the
coast lines. The men are to be tried
sput in this city and then. II they are
found to be good men. they will be
sent west to work.
It is understood that q part Of the
men who left albuquerque last night
are to be left at Seligman. Winslow.
and other division points, but this
could not be ascertained definitely.
T~hirty-6ve boilermakers arrived IN
the city yesterday from Pennsylvania
and the east and will be put to work
IA the shops today. There are In the
majority married men and say that
they will bring their families to the
city as soon as practicable. They say
that the winter In the east has been
q very severe one and that work has
been slack in all lines and they CON
slider that the wages paid here by the
Santa Fe company are high compared
with the east.
The shop management say that they
have all the men they need now and
that as soon as the men grow accus-
toned to the place and the work
which they have to perform that they
will be able to handle the work as
well as ever in the past.
There is no trouble Of any sort, ev-
cept an OCCASIONAL i%nebriated man VINO
appears at the shops and harnesses
the guards.
A committee OF the striking work
men called at the Morning Journal
Office last night and gave every as
surance that good order will prevail
matter what the duration or out
come Of the strike may be. The men
have no objection whatever to the in
junction issued by Judge Baker, as
none Of the acts prohibited in the ord
er were ever contemplated by the
men.
As far as the strikers are concern
ed the %non-union men are perfectly
safe in mingling with the citizens at
any time. Several of the new men
were up town last night and although
they were recognized by the striking
workmen they were not molested in
any manner.
Work has gone steadily ahead In
car repairing department and no
men have quit or walked out. The
machinists have a number Of To-
comotives which they have been work
ng on about ready to leave the shops
md their work is said to be very sat
sfactory. II Is believed that the
strike will not be of long duration.
specially II it is confined to the coast
ines, and It seems to be the concen
nus of opinion that this win be the
,ase.
The macninists, boilermakers, metal
Workers and handy men who are on q
'trike here have been very orderly
ind they are receiving commentator
or the manner In which the strike is
leing carried on.
A guard Of about sixty men, most.
4 whom are natives, is still being
maintained at the shops and about the
and their salaries will amount
0 ' e 5000 per day, as ali Of them
eceive 50 per day and some Of them
4 a day. Il.
More Non-union Men. IL,
A second section OF No. / which
the city last evening carried ,
o5 n~on.union machinists. boiler.mak.
r.. blacksmiths and helpers. bound
the western towns to take the
laces Of the strikers. The men
Ill be tried out at Albuquerque. al
anaer Of those already in the Duke q
ity who have proven to be Of the
ight sort will be sent west at once. i
he Santa Fe has had excellent luck a
18th Its new men, many Of whom are
killed machinists OF long experience. a
is claimed that the road will have b
0 difficulty IN filling the places Of !
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