The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-09
MORE MEN GO OUT
hachinist Apprentices in Santa
Fe Shops Quit.
Went to Work at 2 and Stopped
at Eight.
NO NEW MEN HERE.
Mr.. Nudge Says New Men Will
Go to Work Tomorrow.
Are Being Held in Kansas City
and TT. Madison.
STRIKERS AT WORK.
Mr.. Nudge Says Five Are Back
at Places.
Mr. Buckalew Is Confident of
Success.
Mr.. Nudge Says New Men Will
Go to Work Tomorrow.
Are Being Held in Kansas City
and TT. Madison.
STRIKERS AT WORK.
Mr.. Nudge Says Five Are Back
at Places.
Mr. RuckaleW Is Confident of
Success.

Eighteen machinists' apprentices at
the Santa Fe shops struck this morn
ing.
In his endeavor to force the Atchi-
son. Topeka & Santa Fe railroad to
settle with the International Associa-
ton of Machinists, J. D. Buckalew,
third vice president of the association,
who is directing the strike in Topeka,
called out the machinist apprentices
on a strike at o'clock this morning.
When the strike was declared the first
of last week these men were not in
cluded in the strike order and were
permitted to return to work. Mr..
Buckalew, however, has since found it
necessary to do so, and eighteen of
the apprentice boys left the shop this
morning.
H L. Nudge, general manager for
the Santa F'e, thinks that this action
on the part of Mr. Buckalew is an in
d1cattOn that the strike has so far been
a failure, even from the machinists
point of view. 1T looks to me-" said
Mr.. Nudge, "as if BuckaleW knows
that he is beaten. Otherwise he would
not have called out these boys and
thereby deprived them of the chance
of learning a trade and the $135 that
is held up for them by the company
until they finish their apprenticeship
of four years.
l.
Nudge, that the union officers
haven't the regard for their men that
they say they have. They not only
harm the boys themselves but their
parents The mothers of many of
these boys are dependent upon what
the boys can earn and they are con-
seQuently affected as much if not
more than the boys themselves. Fur
thermore, they are deprived of the
chance to become full-hedged machin-
lists, and if they do go into a machine
shop again, will be compelled to work
as helpers or handy men"
Mr. Nudge said this morning that five
of the machinists who were not work
Saturday returned to work this morn
ing when the shops were opened at Z
O'Clock. He did not say whether these
were union or nonunion men but it is
understood that they returned to work
out OF Difference to the notice which
was posted Saturday by Assistant Sup
erintendent of Motive Power Lowell
The five men who returned to work
This morning reduces the number of
striking machinists to 81
Men Are Being Tried.
Mr. Nudge stated further that the
report that the men whom he had
hired to take the places of the strikers
were drunken thieves and convicts
and were not capable of doing the
work required of them, was false "Of
course, it is understood, -, said Mr.
Nudge, that in hiring a large number
of men there are apt to be. some in
the lot who are of no account to the
company. That is only natural but
we have Obviated the difficulty bv
holding the men at Kansas CITY and
Fort Madison until it is determined
just which ones we want Some of
them are probably not as well ac-
quainted with the work of the shop as
the men who went out but as to their
being toughs and rowdies, that is an
absurdity."
When asked as to the truth of the
report that the Santa Fe would bring
men in today from Kansas CITY to
take the places of the men who did
not return to work this morning Mr.
Nudge said that nothing would be
done until Tuesday. 1t may be-" said
he, that some of the new men will
arrive today but I hardly think that
any of them viii go to work before
Tuesday. They will be brought to To-
peka from Kansas City and Fort
Madison"
Word was received at the Santa Fe
general offices today that the Santa
Fe had secured an injunction against
the machinists of Argentine, Kan. II.
u Nudge said this morning that the
strikers had beaten up one of the non
union men at that point and that an
injunction was necessary in order TO
restrain them from doing worse dam
age.
An injunction against the men has
been secured at all of the important
points on this section of the road ex-
cept Topeka" said Mr.. Nudge so
far the strikers at this place have act
ed very WELL
Mr. KendricIx Refuses.
- 1t is reported that J. D. Buckalew.
the strike leader. has endeavored to get
Third Vice President Kendric< to con
slider his proposition for settlement
which was refused by Mr.. Nudge Sat
nrday According to the report Bucka-
lew mailed the proposition to Mr.. Ken
drick in Chicago and then wired him
to that effect at the same time asking
for conference. Mr.. Hendricks an
swer was similar to Mr. Mudge's. He
wired BuckaleW that he would not ac-
cept his proposition for settlement or
confer with him because of the fact
that the officers of the union had
shown themselves to be hostile to the
Santa Fe. It is probable that Mr.. Ken
bricks answer viii put an end 10
Buckalew's endeavOr to secure a settle
ment with the company by pesceable
methods.
Why Boys Were Called Out.
In giving his reasons for calling out
the machinist apprentices employed
in the Santa Fe shop. J. D. Buckaiew
said that the company was using them
as instructors for the unskilIed men
who have been employed to take the
places of the strikers.
The boys had no grievance in re-
gard to time or money" said the