The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14
TO BE PAID OFF.
Santa Fe Strikers Formally
Discharged on Monday.
VIII Be Given Pay Checks With
Others.
5 NO CHANGE HERE.
Situation Remains the Same i'm
Topeka.
Vice President BuckaleW Still
Out of City.

The men employed in the Santa Fe
machine shop who were locked out of
the shop on Monday, May 2, and re-
fused to return to work the following
Monday will receive their April pay
checks at the Santa Fe general Off
ces on Monday, May 16. This viii
probably be the last money they will
receive from the company. 1t has
been known for some time that the
strikers would not be taken back un-
der any circumstances, but their for
NAL discharge will come when they
receive their pay checks Monday. The
other men will receive their pay
checks at the shop as usual.
In order to give the men notice
that they were to receive their money
On Monday, the following was issued:
''Ali men formerly employed in the
Topeka shops who have left the en-
ploy of the railway company will re-
ceive their April pay checks at the
office of the treasurer of the company
in the general office building at 10
o'clock a. m, Monday, May 16.-E.
Wilder, treasurer"
The strike situation in Topeka re-
mains the same. Neither the strikers
nor the officials have made any i'm
portant moves, and unless something
happens shortly the trouble bids fair
ager for the Santa Fe, visited the
shops Friday afternoon, and says that
to all appearances the work in the
machine shop is going on the same as
ever. "Of course said Mr.. Nudge.
we lack about 10 or Is of having a
full force of men, but these viii be
brought in shortly. We do not ex-
pect to employ them all at once but
one or two at a time"
In this way the shop can be filled
up and we viii run no risk of taking
in incapable men. We have enough men
employed now to more than i'll the
shop with machinists but Mr.. Purcell,
the shop superintendent viii have tC
find work for all of them and thinks
that it Will be best TO employ only the
men whom we know to be reliable ma
! chinists.'
The strikers refuse to say anytime
/ regarding the conditions on their side
1 of the question. ]. d. Buckalew who
| has done most of the talking for the
| men is out of the city and they refuse
| to accept the responsibility of giving
/ out any information. E A. ireland, the
/ representative of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor, who is to take Mr.
1 BuckalewS place in Topeka, has not
\ yet arrived from Chicago and the strik-
ers are without a leader.
Grand Chief Stone of the Brother
\ hood of Locomotive Engineers, in ar
organizations in Fort Worth last week
spoke strongly for the "open shop
standing as a firm believer in union
labor and the right of laboring men tc
Iorganize," he declared that when an
organization compels a man to join il
against his viii it interferes with the
4 personal liberty guaranteed MIN by the
constitution of the United States. The
railway orders, he said, stand head
/ and shoulders above all labor organic
atfons, for they have the open shop
ION almost every road in the country
we work side by side with men who
do not belong to our orders. No mar
is forced to join us. We try to show
him how he would be benefited by be-
/ longing to US, and where his interests
are, but we never say to MIN to joiT
US or you cannot earn an honest liv-
ing by working here. 1 do not believe
any man ever made a good member ir
any organization who was forced tc
join it against his will, for the chances
are that when opportunity offers he
will prove a traitor and betray you
This is a much higher plane of union
ism than that of the Federation OF
\ Labor, which declares that no non
union man shall work if the union car
prevent him: and which tacitly sane
tions violence in carrying out this
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