Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-05-02
EXTENSION
TO Il PASO.
--
Gould Will Extend D.. & R. g.
10 Pass City, Via The San.
ia Fe Central
STRIKE SITUATION
More WalkOuts. NOn-uniOn
Men Working In All Shops
ON The System

The DenVe Post speaks as with
authority Of the following railroad
plan which Is Of much interest 10 New
Mexicans:
The long cherished desire Of Gen.
w. J. Palmer to construct the Den.
yer q Rio Grande to Ell Paso, Texas,
will be realized Il George ]. Gould,
present owner Of the system, carries
out his plans.
The Santa Fe Central railroad. ex-
tending from Santa Fe to Torrance,
. point south on the Rock Island,
Is 70 be purchased by the Gould inter-
ests as the first step in furtherance
of the plan.
From Torrance to Ell Paso survey
ors have been at work for some time
and the proposed extension Of the
Rio Grande will practically parallel
the tracks OF the Santa Fe and the
Rock Island into Ell Paso.
It is stated by those who are au-
thority for the story that there will
be heavy bidding against the Gould
interests by the Rock Island, which,
although It does not need the Santa
Fe Central, Is not Al all anxious to
have another competitor into Ell Paso.
General Superintendent Coughlin,
with other officials of the construction
department, are now at Santa Fe and
their mission there is to examine
into the rebuilding of the line from
Santa Fe northward to Antonito.
An associated press dispatch from
Topeka says.
The Topeka m%achinists Of the San
ia Fe Held a largely attended meeting
tonight and decided that they would
not strike. The action Of the pen
on the coast lines Of the road in go
ing out without waiting for orders
the union was strongly condemned to-
night.
Mr.. Buckalaw intimated that a
~peaceable settlement Of the Difficult.
ties would be made on the coast lines
also. He succeeds Fourth Vice Presi.
dent Wilson In the management or
the union interests on the Santa Fe.
Wilson was strongly in favor Of a
strike.
II is known that Mr.. BuckaIaw ur-
ged the discontinued at albuquerque
not to strike without a general order.
The situation throughout the west re-
mains about the same. A few more
men have gone out but others have
been coming in and all the shops are
WORKING though some with a reduced
force. The chief trouble is from Al
buquerque west. The closed shop has
prevailed for a long time on the coast
lines. An effort wa made by the
union men to establish a closed shop
on all the system. The Santa Fe de-
cided to take time by the forelock
and established the open shop on
the whole system. Accordingly, men,
union men, were sent to the shops
in the west and 1t was given out by
the Santa Fe that the principle or
open shop would never be conceded.
Many Of the union men Of the west
struck when the non.union men were
brought in.
There were seventeen men placed
at work in the various departments
Of the Albuquerque shops Saturday at
noon. They arrived early in the morn
Ing and are from Chicago, st. Louis
and Kansas City.
Il Is announced that the next an.
nual~ convention Of the Train Dispatch.
ers' Association Of America viii be
hSIu - ~. IouiS vi Juue ii. III Is
expected that many local di~spatchers
will take in the worlds fair at the
same time.
Charles Bird. q a repairer, left
albuquerque Saturday night for the
east. He and the family will go to
Kansas City where they will visit
friends for a week or more, and then
will go on to st. Louis where they
will take in the fair and visit rela-
tives.
The railroad company, which has
been drilling a well at Roy, has had
liz troubles. For some months past
work has been suspended on account
Of the losing OF the drill. This has
recently been recovered, and work is
again going on. Some water Is al.
ready In the well.