Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1904-07-23
WILSON LAST NIGHT
tie Appeared at Colombo
HALL and Addressed a
Large Crowd.
DREW A VERY PATHETIC PICTURE

Thomas T. Wilson. Fourth vica
president of the International Aaao
citation of Macb.u.sia. who came tp
Albuquerque Friday ugnt Cor tho pur
posse pf directing the mach.niata'
strike asa.uat tho Santa Fc. termed
hy him .the lockout" startled
hIs large audience NJ COLON
DU bal. ust u.ght by "a declaration
chat e petition signed by 10000 ma.
gbuatH would nc sent FAB Washington.
% g., asking for che dismissal of
judge Benjamin d Baker 1s aasDciato
justice of tho supreme cYIrt ~ New
Mexico.
This declaration. with uumorua
others. poidng nm az Attorney u. q.
rWtohDH. M kondrIck nud others &C
the Santa Fo. seemed 90 appeal 20 tho
people who lhuugod the hall and ro.
po1tDdIy the auditorium rang with no
sounding applause
The strike leader began hiB address
with the story OFF the organisation OF
fuu NBrh.uIta union and talked Tor
over aD hour without oven glaaa
ct water tu break che continuous 0f
luEn.' although pitcher of tho
coulIuE liquid rtood on tbo table lis
discussed che Union p-cInc strike aud
emo San Francisco strike uf 1901 aud
.hr results obtained Boz each OF Thorn
Told now they we're conducted and
hy whom Wilson was there in oyory
instance and lu his estimation, was
ihc whole 'hug DO, took up tho STA.
UhInIats strike with Che Santa be
Said that % wasn't "a strike. lt was a
lockout what are the mnchinlsta
striking for7 I don't know We are
not asking for moro vases The
wages tho Santa De pays are salts
factory
nc the Santa Fo win put inc scaba
ont OF The shops and opon the doors
10 the union. 'ho mon will an Fo hack
"rbla ia no strike 10 BE- lockout
Ma KpudrIck wishes tO destroy tho
union and hp Is spending some of tho
Santa Pos surplus earnings trying 20
do 90.
cts true the company owns tho
shops and the t0ols. but we own tho
craft Don't you think We lave a right
to sol a price ON our labor liH an wo
have to soII7'
Wilson then prUtayod q pathetic
picture OF tho striker and bis home
"Thc mechanic is locked out," said
Dec "lln guuB io the station aud a
train arrives or falls a Dot OF dirty
ugly. moasly specimens Of humanity.
who have come to take his iob The
strike uAB run along several months.
Tho strikers family go ln want Tho
striker returns to dinner from doing
picket duty at The stockado BE alta
down to "a moaFro meal and looks
around the table. Tho wifoa clothes
are ragged and the children are thin
ly claI Ho asks the mother 10 tho
children have been Co school ln tho
morning sno says mo- YOU know thoy
have uo shoes and there ls snow On
fho ground
Then De- returns to picket duty
with something eating az h.s heart
lle meets au unfair man, fat and
slick with Santa Fo grub. llo, him
clI has wrinkle in hia stomach.
. Tho STRIKER EayH ms man I want %
. tals W.ta sou aIout tho strike The
seab says go along with you and
. hc brushes The po1r striker of tho
sidewalk Tho striker can control
himself uo longer and Dee up ana
amaHhcs tHo soan. injunction or no iu.
junction"
when wilson Finished thia STORY,
toau gIIsfeued on many chooaa .n
fbo haIl
Ie said uaf KenIurk aBH Fuity
of f.ud.ue "a bogus telegram over the
telegraph uno In December which
misguided delegates 0f mo union Ha
quoted Henry T Scott % San Fran
cisco ua saying Chat Dee would make
criminals of hls mon and pro- u'uiH
5f tHHr wives before ho would take
fhe union men back into me shops
Scott was beaten
wilson AlEeI dI.HlIy Dee has a
dep around Dds speech which Is rather
fascinating ln some places and graf
. uE ou ones nerves FOO others De- H
not "a graceful ulkor and has "a yey
/ Dad habit of sticking offs hands into
his tr1ueer pockets. uut has "a clever
I Rsy OF winding up FOO % maaner tq