The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-21
KENDRICK TO WAIT
Nothing to Give Out About Sue
cessOr to Mr.. Nudge.
appointment May Be Expected
Next Week.
VICE PRESIDENT HERE.
Will Have Conference With
President Ripley.
He Talks Lightly of the Boiler
makers Strike.
VICE PRESIDENT HERE.

The appointment of a general man
ager for the Santa Fe to succeed H.
U. Nudge. who has resigned to be-
come second vice president of the
Rock Island railway system, may be
expected within a few days, and prob
ably by the middle of next week at
the latest.
Third Vice President J. w. Ken
drick of the Santa Fe railroad is in
Topeka today having arrived in this
city last evening on his return from a
trip to Texas and New Mexico.
A reporter for the State Journal
found Mr.. Kendrick this forenoon at.
the Santa Fe general office building.
Can you give out anything today
in regard to the appointment of a sue
cessor to Mr.. AIudge?' he was asked.
Mo- the vice president replied. Il
guess III have to tell you 1 cannot
give out anything today. I haven't
got the pins set yet"
Mr. Mudge'S resignation, it is under
stood came as quite a surprise to the
Santa Fe officials. and it is conse-
Quently d matter which will take con-
siderable deliberation, before an aD-
pointment is announced. It is likely
that Mr.. Kendrick will not appoint a
new general manager till after he has
had an opportunity of comforting with
President Ripley.
Vice President. Kendrick reached
Topeka last evening in his private car
which was brought here as a special
train. He has been over the lines in
Texas, and to the headquarters of the
Gulf lines at Galveston. From Texas.
Mr.. Kendrick made a trip over the
Rio Grande division as far as Las
Vegas to inspect improvement work in
progress in the canyons where the
company suffered such large losses
from floods last year.
Mr.. Kendrick leaves Topeka this
afternoon to go to Chicago.
The matter OF the o-ca1led" boil
erma kers' strike rests lightly or Mr..
Hendricks mind.
you know said Mr.. Kendrick to
the reporter, "and know, and the
| travelling public knows, and in fact
everyone who comes in contact with
the facts and conditions as they exist,
knows that the so-called strike of the
machinists and boilermakers, has not
and is not affecting the business of
this company.
ut is also a fact that there has
never been a time when the motive
power of the Santa F'e railroad was in
better condition than it is at the pres
ent time"
Mr.. Kendrick reviewed the boiler
/ makers WalkOut at some length. The
/ history of the trouble as related by
/ Mr.. Kendrick was the same as the
statement published in the State Jour
nal last Monday evening under the
authority of General Manager H. Z.
4 Nudge.
In brief it was that the company Of
ficials claim the boilermakeTs on the
/ Santa Fe coast lines went out on a
/ strike not because they had a real
| grievance, but because they made an
| excuse to strike for the reason that
| they did not want to work on engines
| along with machiniSts who took the
| place of the striking machinists, and
| whom the boilermakers termed un-
| fair" The boilermakers struck with :
| out the sanction of the president and
| executive council of the bollerrnalS-
! erS' union, and the striking bo1lerTna-k-
ers did not receive strike benefits from
| the organization till about seven
months afterward when they secured
the retirement of President O,NelL
| 'sThe leaders of the movement on the
| east end. E. R. Kyler and r J. Dona-
hue said Mr.. Kendrick, were former
| ly employed by the Santa Fe company on
] the coast lines as boilerrn@a @ sels. IS A1eeI Yer
| they went out on the west end tnese Two
! men were selected to go east ana organ
| ize the boilermak kers in the employ OF the
| Santa Fe at the shop points OF the east
! end of the system for the purpose OF
! walking out in a sym pathetic strike.
| 1.-THE proportion of union men VINO Were
employed by the Santa te company as
/ compared to the total number or men
! employed in these deDartmen mas Deen
so small that their quitting WoIk mas not
| materially affected the company As d
/ matter of fact we have had to reduce
! working hours recently and have at the
| same time had to reduce 1orces 70 q
| certain extent on account of lack of
/ work at this time our motive power IS
! in excellent shape and Just now mere ms
/ been a luII in the volume OF traff1c moy-
I ing so that there has been a let-up IN the
! work necessary to be done IN the SHOPS
! Vice President Kendrick declared today