Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-05-07
HEARING ON
INJUNCTION
Full Statement Of the Case That
Has Been Agitating Albu-
Querque Shopmen
ORDER CON TINUED
Judge Baker Refuses To Modify
Restraint In Any Way Ques-
tion Ably Argued

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Fridays JournalDemoera gives the
/ following account Of the hearing of
the injunction suit brought by the
Santa Fe company against the strikers
In Albuquerque restraining them from
interfering with the property Of the
company:
]. The hearing on the injunction Of the
Santa Fe Railway company vs.. Thorn,
as l. Wilson, fourth vice president Of
the international Association Of Ma
chinists and the local members OF that
order and the others Of this city who
lare on strike, was heard yesterday
morning In the district court by Judge
b, s. Baker. AT the close OF the hear.
ling the injunction was continued in
effect until June lst, and George
Clock, of the law firm OF Clock 4
lowen, was appointed referee to take
,eyidenee In the case.
Attorneys w. b. Childers Of this
city, and Col. II. Il. Twitchell Of Las
Vegas represented the railway com.
pany, and Attorneys n. w. D. Bryan
and Summers Burkhart represented
the men.
Attorney Burkhart wanted con
tinuance In the case until this morn
ing, In order to secure affidavits on
4 the part OF the employees OF the rail
road shops denying and refuting the
specific charges made by the officers
of the Santa Fe company.
! Col, Twitchell objected and stated
that the company might also ask fol
a continuance In order TO deny and
refute the charges which might be
made by the defense, and that at that
rate decision could never be reached
| in the matter. The colonel then read
II the affidayits Of w. u Essex, who has
been the general foreman of the Santa
Fe company for the past four years
, In which Essex ayerred that some ol
the men who had walked out had call
ed him "scab," said Hello, scab,s and
II jeered Al him. saying; There goes q
scab,' and that this occurred while
, going from the shop Office to his home
which Ii on the Santa ne property d
favt fact snt,th - tba ,.alaa. no :,
further alleged that on Friday, April
80, after the men had walked out l,
. twas discovered that n hammar had
been left In the guides of an engine In
the roundhouse, and that when the
engine was moved the hammer did
such damage TO the cylinder and
guides that the engine was put out
OF service and some forty dollars
worth Of work was required 70 repair
III; that on the same day a wheelbar'
row load Of tools was found In the
tirebox OF another engine. and that In
the cylinder Of one Of tho large On.
gines Of the 9l5 class q large nut was
found n . steam passage way to the
cylinder which might have caused
serious harm. Mr.. Essex also said
that one other engine had been tam
! lpered with.
Il Col. Twitchell also had an affidavit
from Stephen L. Bean, thep resent
superintendent Of motive power OF the
coast lines, who is the acting master
mechanic Of the local Ahops in which
atfiant reiterates portion Of the am.
dayit Of Mr.. Essex, and states that at
q conference with the officers or the
Machinists' union, Thomas L. Wilson,
then an officer In that organization,
said that In the event OF strike on
the Santa Fe the machinists would use
the same tactics that we're used In the
Union Pacific strike In 1902. He also
told Of certain ratchet drill that had
been destroyed. and Of the finding of
u piece Of iron which had been placed
In an engine which was to pull the
limited, and which would have done
much damage had II not been dIscov.
cred
Col Twitchell said that on Wed.
nesday number Of engines ran hot,
and that one Of them, a freight engine
Of the big 9l5 class did not eycn
leave the city limits with its train be.
fore i ran hot By reason Of powdered
emery which had been placed IN the
driving boxes. He also said that,ssv.
eral engines on the west end had