The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-15
SANTA FE STRIKE.
The Action of Santa Fe Boiler.
makers Is General.
Out at All Division Points Oh
System.
INCLUDES 25O MEN.
Cause Is Sympathy for the
Coast Strikers.
Secretary W. }. GilthOrpe Issues
a Statement.
CLUDEs $50 MEN.

Kansas City, April 15.-A general
strike Of the union boiler makers and,
helpers in the shops of the Atchison.
Iopeka & Santa Fe railroad was or
dered yesterday from the Headquarters
of the Brotherhood Of Boilermakers and
iron ShIpbuuders of America in Kansas
city, Kan, by W. J. Gilthorpe, grand
secretary and treasurer of the boiler
makers union. At o'clock yesterday
afternoon Mr.. Gilthorne said he had re-
ceiyed word that the boilermakers were
out in Argentine, Topeka, Fort Madison,
Ia, Las Vegas. N NJ, Ration, n NJ,
La Junta, Col. and Pueblo, Col. No
word had been received from Newton,
Fan, but it is supposed that the men
lhere went out. About $50 men were af-
fected by yesterdays order, making 4
total OF more than 500 who are now
striking on the entire system, he said.
Gllthorpe gave out this statement:
Last May strike of boilerma kerS was
ordered on the coast line of the Santa
F'e, which is that part of the system
west of Albuquerque, n. NJ, because
the company violated a contract in re-
fusing to give audience to boilermakers
who wished to protest to master me-
chanicS because union boilermakers
were put to work on engines with un-
fair machinistS. Since that strike the
company has further violated its agree
ment by sending coast line engines to
Topeka and other places in the eastern
| division for repairs. The company has
repeatedly refused to give US an audi
ence. a conference was held last July
but it didn't amount to anything. When
I was in Los Angeles last winter I tried
to get an audience with the railroad Of
6cials but failed.
The coast line strike affected 234
men. This strike covers the whole
system and will affect more than that
Z m her az 0r--
ganizing at Argentine, Topeka ard
Fort Madison since January, but the
company has laid them of one at a
time. At Topeka this morning the
company got word of the strike before
the order was issued and began fay-
! ing or the men. There are about 200
men in the shops there, but they are
not all members of the union The
men went out everywhere along the
line"
The strike will be felt but little To-
I caIly The Santa Fe shops are at
Argentine, where only three union
boilermakers have been employed re-
/ Gently These men struck yesterday
afternoon.
E. ]. Tumelty, business agent of the
Argentine local union, said yesterday
that a number Of boilernlakers quit
work when the machinistS' strike was
! declared several months ago. Later
/ these men returned to work and II Of
them were discharged when the COM
pany heard that a strike was likely
TumeIty regards the strike as a SYM
pathetic one in connection with tho
strike Of the machinists, which has
never been settled. He said he be-
lieved the bIacksmiths and switchmen
would strike in a few months.
Thirty Out at Newton.
Newton, Kan, April 15.-The boil
ermakers and the bOilermaker helpers
in the Santa Fe shops here. went out
on a strike at 1870 O'Clock Friday
morning. About thirty men are af-
fected by the strike order. The COM
pany evidently anticipated the strike,
having ten men here last night to take
their places. The shops are cunning
as usual today.
Nine Out at Arkansas City
Arkansas City, Kan, April Is
When the boilermakers and helpers
on the santa Fe were ordered to
strike. nine men went out of the shops
here. There are three men at work
today. There is no trouble.
Don't Amount to Much, Nudge Says.
Kansas City, April 15.-Mr. Nudge
says that the boilermakers strike
which was fnaugurated yesterday viii
not cause any serious Inconvenience
to the Santa Fe.
"I don't think that it viii amount to
much" he said, mot even as much as
the machinists' strike did. It can't
affect us very much, as we had very
few union boilermakers in our em-
ploy. If the statement that ffty-four
men were let out at Topeka is correct
it must have included apprentices or
helpers, as the union only claimed
forty men there"