New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-03
SANTA FE LOCKS OUT MEN
GETS AHEAD OF II STRIKE.
High Fence and armed Guards at
Topeka Shops 700 Men Effected

Topeka. Kan, May 2-When the two thou
sand Santa Fe machnists and workmen en-
ployed here gathered at the big railway shops
to-day, TO go to work. they found the gates
locked. The entire plot of ground OF twenty
five acres is surrounded by high board fence.
with few gates. These gates were locked. and
the men without were told by armed guards
that there nothing doing.
The Santa Fe officials asserted that they were
only anticipating strike that would have come
to-day They said that information had come
TO them that the men had held secret meetings
on Saturday night and yesterday, and had de-
cided on a strike at o'clock this morning
There disturbance to-day, the majority
of the men returning quietly to their homes
AT the general office of the railway company
here IL stated that the order to close was
given 10 every shop town on the Santa Fe sys-
TEN from Chicago to Albuquerque. 1t is esti-
mated that nearly ten thousand men are af-
fected
On March % the International Association of
Machinists submitted a list OF twenty rules
which they desired the Santa Fe to contract
to observe In the management OF it's machine
shops. The officials said that this would be
recognition Of the union. and would practically
uniOnize the shops and take them from the
control Of the company. 1t rejected the demands
for a contract. The Santa Fe has sent four
hundred non-union machinists TO the Coast
lires and says that all vacancies are filled and
there is further need OF men on that part
OF the system.
The lockout order signed by A Lowell
1t does not affect the car shop men or the round
house men except in this city. Here the car
shops and roundhouse are inside the yard fence
and 1t was necessary to include everything in
side the fence in the lockout order.
l. ID. Buckalew, third vice president of thu
International Association Of Machinists who
is in charge of the strike here gave out the
following statement:
We called all the men on all the lines of
the Santa Fe railway. and. as far as know it
but the order came from headquarters and we
have TO ObeT.
In spite OF the protests OF the strike leaders
it is asserted that attempt was made s.
terday 10 disable two Santa Fe engines at
Arkansas City
Chicago, May 2.-Machinists in two shops here
of the Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe Rail-
road to-day observed a strike order said 10 have
emanated from Washington. Only a few ma
chinists are employed in the Chicago shops
Third Nice-Presdent Kendrick OF the Santa
Fe tonight issued the following statement on
the lockout:
In view OF the exaggerated statements that have
been made regarding the probable magnitude OF the
trouble on the Santa Fe, II proper for me to
helpers and machinists apprentices. including non
Union men enpIoyeH on January /. 1904 on the en-
lines. numbering over one-third of this class OF
ago and their places have been filled. The shops
OF the company were not opened to-day because
pendent sources that strike had been ordered to
occur this morning; When they reopened. as
magnitude OF the strike be definitely ascer-
tanned Within a week ten days the company