Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-05-24
SANTA f STRIKERS
OUT FOR LIFE
VH&President Kendrick
says None Will Ever
Be Taken Back. t
tion satisfactory 10
Company

All the machinists in the employ q
the santa Fe who went on strike May
2, are out of jobs for life SO long as
the Santa re is concerned, for that
system Of railroads will never take
one of them back into its employ, says
the Kansas City Journal. This is
the present intention Of J. ". Ken
drick, third vice president Of the San,
Ia Fe system who has charge of the
strike situation for the Santa Fe. MI,
Kendrick and ]. E. Hurley, general
superintendent Of the Santa Fe, came
into the Union depot yesterday on
their way from a trip over the lines
OF the system as far west as La Jun
ia, Colorado, They left last night fol-
Fort Madison, Iowa, to study the
strike situation in that section.
Il have been out from Chicago fol
five days looking into the strike situa
ton at the company's shops west q
Kansas City" said Mr.. Kendrick, land
| am very well pleased with the way
things are running. In fact, I can
say to you that we are getting along
even better than we hoped for this
early in the strike, and at present
are suffering no inconveniences what
ever, Of any consequence. NE are
having no trouble in getting al the
men we need for the shops, and most
Of them are good ones, too, AM we
will keep them
sMr. Kendrick, recently quite 9
number of trains have been reported
a little late and it is held up BY the
strikers that your engines are not
properly cared for by the new men,
1T is true" he said. that some Of
our trains have bsen late, but ! have
here reports from superintendent
which show that the strike had abso-
lutely nothing to do with the lateness
Of the trains and here Mr.. kendrick
read the reports, showing that the
heavy trains that carried the Metho.
dists to the conference at Los Angeles,
and causes Of that nature that Just
happened at this time, made the other
trains a little late.
Mr.. Kendrick said that little or no
damage had been done to the com
pany's engines by the strikers and
that all attempts to do any damage
had been detected before the engines
we're sent out on the road.
Someone put a nut in the casing Of
q cylinder OF one Of the engines Mt the
Argentine shops last night he said,
but luckily 1t was found before the
engine started. At Arkansas City,
Kansas, when the strike began some
emery dust was placed in a cylin.
der, but It, too. vas taken out before
it did any damage. We are keeping
a close guard on the shops and ex-
pect no further trouble"
Twill you ever take back any of the
men who went on striker he was
asked.
mo, we will not" was the reply.
"That would mean more trouble later
on. These men simply wanted to dom
mate the affairs Of this system, and
had no real cause to strike. We do
not want such men, and will neve
again give them employment. There
is no doubt whatever in my mind that
the Santa Fe ear easily do without
them, and the talk that the machin.
lists officers are putting up to the ef.
feet that the Santa Fe must sooner
or later succumb to their demands for
the reason that 1t cant get competent
men to take the strikers places Is all
nonsense"
This trouble has been brewing since
July d year ago, and all that time the
Santa Fe has been expecting a strike
and, naturally has been preparing for
It. It was . question Of whether we
run the Santa Re or whether
the machinists would be the bosses
and allow the company only the privi.
ledge Of paying them their regular
checks when they were ready for
them. The Santa Fe would close up
and go out Of business before It would
submit To such tyranny. In the first
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