The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1904-05-06
.SANTAFE MACH|N|STSS STRIKE
OVER 500 MEN HAVE ALREADY
QUIT THEIR JOBS.
President O'Conne1l of the Interna-
tional Union Says the Men Are Out
Because Men Have Been Perskcuted
By Company-Vice President of the
Road Makes Denials,

| Washington, May 3.-Over 800 ma.
chlnists and large number OF allied
workers on the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railroad are reported out on
strike. When the whole striking
strength is brought out, embracing not
only the machinists, but allied metal
mechanics, boilermakers, blacksmiths,
copper workers, helpers, ETC.. the total
number involved, according to Presi-
dent O'Connell of the machinists'
union. may approximate between 1O,-
600 and $4,000 men. The strike was
order on instructions from headquar-
tiers here after the men had voted unan
lmously in favor of the step. Word
from John Mulholland Of Toledo, presi-
dent of the National Allied Metal
Mechanics, saying he had ordered his
men to 60 out with the machinists,
which means sympathic strike, from
that quarter embracing probably 1000
men engaged in semiskilled labor in
the Santa Fe shops.
President o Cornell says that the ma
chlnists are out all along the lines of
the road, 800 Of them being now speci-
fically reported out. The allied metal
mechanics, the boilermakers, etc., in
practically all of the shops west of AL
buquerque also are reported out. Mr..
O'Connell says that the men are pre-
pared to continue the strike indefinite
ly;that they were only asking the same
working agreement now in operation
on other roads and discontinuance of
the spotter, and detective system, which,
he said, is carried on by the company
to shameless degree.
"The system, ''he said, "is honey
combed with detectives and the men
are watched the moment they leave the
shops and marked blacklisted and dis
criminated against if they protest their
sight to do as they please.
I'VE will not tolerate it Other
roads must keep their hands off in this
strike. The challenge has been thrown
down by the company defying us to
test OF strength. We have done every
thing possibly to avoid trouble.
THE men have been given strict
against violence. ANY men,
Der who enters into an encounter with
a man put into his place does SO with
out the advice or instruction of head
and makes himself liable to
suspension and expulsion. We propose
to carry on the strike within the law,
Memb ers who have been warned that
they must not be a party to vio-
lence OF any kind, but they have a
right to MAKE grievances known to any
one employed to take their places, but
to that extent only"
Chicago, April 3.-Third Vice Presi
dent Kendrick of the Santa Fe saws re-
gadring the machinists' strike:
In view of the exaggerated state
ment that have been made regarding
the probable magnitude of the srike on |
the Santa Fe system that has come
about by order Of the executive officers
Of the International Association of Ma
ohlnlsts 1t seems proper for me to say |
that the full force of machinists' help |
ers and apprentices, including nom
union men, employed January / of this
year on the system was only 2275.
The men on the cast lines numbering
over one-third Of this class of labor EN-.
ployed by the Santa Fe, struck week
ago and their places have been fled"