Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-05-05
SITUATION IN
albuquerque
Injunction Hearing To-day.
Strikers Draw Up q Reso-
lution Stating Position
From Albuquerque Journal.

Yesterday the blacksmiths AMI their
helpers at the Santa Fe shops IN TINS
city walked OUT. They quit work az
noon and came back after dinner to
turn in the company's tools and 70 get
their belongings. There were no
scenes and the men quit as quietly as
Il 1t were n man. instead OF the en-
tire union force Of blacksmiths and
the assistants who were walking out.
The walkout was due to the employ
ment Of non-union blacksmiths and
other conditions which are said to
have been obnoxious to the union men.
There were about fifteen blacksmiths
and twenty helpers who struck.
The management at the shops say
that they have 9 good force Of machin-
lists working and that by today their
boiler shops will also be running full
handed and their blacksmith shops
win also have a full force. They say
that the only question which now con
fronts them is to pick out the best
men, as they have more than is need
ed.
The situation has been very quiet
and there has been no trouble Of any
sort, but nevertheless the large force
81 deputies is still kept on guard.
They are, in the opinion Of the Santa
Fe company. necessary, as trouble
| may COM up at any time.
Yesterday the injunction suit OF the
Santa Fe against its employees came
UP for trial in Judge B. S. Bakers
I court. The attorneys for the men,
3Messrs. r.. w. D. Bryan and Summers
Burkhart, moved for the dissolution
81 the injunction. Col. R. E. Twitchell,
she company's attorney, objected most
strenuously to this. The hearing OF
tie case was set for Thursday morn
ing at which time the strikers will
be required to show III why the in
junction should not be made perman-
,ent.
Owing to the washouts in Kansas,
the movement of trains or the Santa
Fe has not been very rapid for the
past twenty-four hours. AT the shops
in this city, those in position to know.
say that there are three engines in
first.class shape that have not been
pressed into the service yet, and that
] they are being held for an emergency,
Many OF the blacksmiths who went
out yesterday are desirious OF taking
trips about the country, but the pay
rolls have been sent in for the month
! OF April and they cannot get their
3 money until the regular pay day, ex-
= cept for what time they have put in
this month, which is but q day or two
At meetings of the different unions
which are involved in the strike al
the railroad shops, resolutions were
adopted that all union men should re
frain from lettering on the streets 81
in the saloons and that they must moi
20 near the Santa Fe right-of-way o.
shops and should conduct themselves
with the best Of decorum.
shopmen Draw Up Resolutions.
The joint committee from the sever
al unions involved in the present con
~troyersy with the Santa Fe company
has completed its labors. The commit
tee was appointed to draw up resolu
tions informing the public as to the
causes leading up to the difficulty and
the conditions under which the mel
would go back to work. The reso
lutions follow:
The machlnists went out on q strike
for this reason: The company hat
laid of union men, saying that OWNS
to the falling on OF business and thu
good condition of its power II was nee
essary to make . reduction in tn
force. And then after the reductiol
had been made and the compan.
needed more men, instead Of puttinl
union men to work. they shipped IN
number Of unfair men and put then
TO work in the shops under q guard Q
armed depties. This the machinist
could no stand and they decided :
walk out. The boilermakers then r.
fused to work on any engine on whicl
boiler work was to be done befor
they tthe ~boilermakers) would d
the work. The boilermakers the
voted to strike. The coppersmith
also refused TO work on any engin
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