The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-29
READY TO QUIT.
Strike Order Expected to Go
Into Effect Tomorrow.
Meeting Of MachInIsts Is Called
for Tonight.
NO NEW MEN HERE.
General Manager Nudge Says
None Are Ready.
Stringent Measures Are Adopted
at Albuquerque.
INJUNCTION GRANTED.
Men Required to Not MOlest
Company.
Expected That Action Here viii
Come Soon.
General Manager Nudge Says
None Are Ready.
Stringent Measures Are Adopted
at albuquerque.
INJUNCTION GRANTED.
Men Required to Not MOIest
Company.
Expected That Action Here viii
Come Soon.

It was announced at noon today
that a special meeting OF the local
lodge of the machinisfs' union has been
called for tonight. This meeting win
be held at the lodge room on Sixth ave-
nue., between Kansas avenue and
jackson street and it is expected that
every member OF the organization en-
ployed in the Santa Fe shops will I,a
present. 1t has also leaked out thnr
a strike order has been received from
Washington and VIII be read to the
men at tonight's meeting. This means
that the machinists viii probably strike
in the morning.
It was stated today at the Santa Fa
general managers office that the com
pany has no men ready at this place TO
put to work in the shops in case a
strike should occur. 1t was also stated
that the men who took the places OF
the strikers at San Bernardino were
not sent to California from Kansas
City as has been reported.
Reports received from Kansas City
state that the men employed in the
company's shops at Argentine are pre-
pairing to strike but when last heard
from were still at work. They win pro-
bably strike at the same time the To-
peka men go out.
There is no longer any hope OF the
trouble between the machinists and
the company being adjusted. The men
are still holding to their demands and
the last request that was made Of the
Santa Fe has been refused in emphatic
terms by Mr.. Kendrick. Unless the
men conform to Mr.. Hendricks ruling
on their demands strike will there
fore be the outcome Of the whole affair.
II there Is any substantial founda-
ton to the statement made by one Of
the machinists today that class of
worlxn1en will not be the only ones TO
go out The man said:
The machinists are not the only
employees Of the Santa Fe who have
grievances understand that the
blacksmiths and boilermakers are also
dissatisfied with their treatment at the
hands Of the road and II would not
surprise me a bit to see them walk out
in sympathy with u.s. Anyway, we will
not be alone in our fight with the COM
Have the machinists decided on a
striker was asked.
Yes"
When will they go out?''
THAT I cannot say"
Injunction at Albuquerque
Albuquerque. N. NJ, April a.
Judge b. S. Baker of the district court
has issued an Injunction, upon the
| request of the Santa Fe railway
against machinists, boilermakers,
their helpers and apprentices, and
metal workers, now on strike, re-
straining them from in any manner
interfering with the agents and en-
/ ployes of the company in the man
! agement, movement or operation Of
\ the company's engines. cars and all
other machinery and appliances. They
are also enjoined from interfering
with the men who are taking the
( places of the strikers and are re-
strained from entering upon the COM
pany's right Of way and other grounds
and property. The injunction is the
most far-reaehing ever issued by a
court in the territory.
The strike situation has assumed
( larger proportions by the action Of
the metal workers, coppersmiths. pipe
men, with their apprentices and help
I ers, the bOilermakers and their ap-
/ prentices and helpers in walking out.
An effort is being made to have the
blacksmiths join the strike.
New Men Quit Work.
Los Angeles, Gala, April 29.-It is
stated at Santa Fe headquarters in
Los Angeles today that the strike sit
uation in the shops of that company
located at San Bernardino shows no
material change. A special from San
Bernardino says that 81 Of the new
machinists brought in by the Santa
FTe company to replace the strikers
have quit work. The company claims
that the total number Of men on strike
in San Bernardino is 80 including the
ten man who were imported to take
the strikers places and about a ap-
prentices.
The company has posted notices at
its San BernardinO shops that no one
who goes on strike during the pres
ent controversy will be re-employed
by the company