The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-22
RAILROAD NEWS.
Santa Fe Issues a Warming to
Striking Machinists.
All Persons Who Aid and Abet
Them to Be Prosecuted.
MANY THREATS MADE.
Of Men to Be Taken
to Satisfy Judgments.
Gossip and Matters of Interest
in Railroad Circles.

That the officials of the Atehison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railway company
recognizes the fact that there IS
strike on the part of machintsts
against the road is evidenced by
bulletin which the company has tack
ed I'D on the fences around the shops
warning strikers from interfering with
its business in any way and promising
divers kind of punishment to all per
sons who aid and abet the machinists
in carrying on the strike. From time
TO time Third Vice President Kendrick
and other officials of the road have
declared that as far as the company
was concerned the strike OF the ma
chinists which started some eighteen
months ago did not exiSt-that It was
a thing of the past hut they have eVl-
IDENTIFY changed their minds recently
for the following is the text of the
bulletin that has been placarded
around the shops in the last two
days:
All members of the International
Association of Machinists and all other
persons who aid or abet them in car
rying on a strike will be held jointly
severaly and personally liable as CO.
conspiratOrs for all damage done to
persons, property or business by rea-
son of any unlawful acts or damage
done by any person or persons in the
furtherance of or in carrying on such
strike, whether such member or other
person participates or cO-Operates in
doing such unlawful act or personally
sanctions the same or not
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa F'e
Railway company has been kept fully
advised as to the threats made and
the proposed means devised by certain
representatives of said international
Association of Machinists to inJure its
property and interfere with its husl-
ness and employees, and impede the
same 1t intends to keep close watch
upon every person connected with the
strike, and upon all proceedings, and
will spare no means to that end, so as
to not only impose civil liability, but
to see that all wrong doors are brought
to justice 1t will prosecute to judg-
ment all suits against members of
said association, and other Cocoon
spiratOrs, for damages to its property,
and business, growing out OF any uI-
lawful acts during the strike, and viii
see that the individual property of
such members and others implicated,
IS taken to satisfy any judgments
rendered.
This railway company is engaged in
carrying the United States mails.
goods in bond under customs regula-
tons of the government and inter
state commerce. Any unwarranted
hinderance or obstruction to the same
VIII be laid before the government Of
1icials for prosecution.
The AtchisOn, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway Company,
BY J. W. KENDRICK,
Its Third Vice President.
]. D. Buckalew, third vice president
of the International Association of
NIachinists. and W. L. Stark, president
of the local machinists' union, stated
yesterday that the significance of the
warning" was rather vague. I'VE
company in any way" said Mr.. Buck
alew, nor have we intentions Of doing
so. We are conducting the strike
along legitimate strike lines, We have
pickets out and are using our best en-
deayOrs to have men working in the
shops, join US. but outside of that we
are doing nothing to injure the prop
erty or the business of the company"