Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-09-30
CLOCK STRUCK %
AND STRIKE IS ON
Army of $4,000 Railroad
Machinists and Others
Quits Work
" UNFAIR IS THEIR SLOGAN
Illinois Central and Hartman
Lines Are the Ones Princi-
pally Affected.

tBy Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
Chicago, H., Sept. 30.-The great
strike of railway shopmen and ma
chinists on the Illinois Central and the
Hartman lines became effective at
10 o'clock this morning.
1t is estimated that $4,000 men quit
work. Following is an incomplete sum-
mary of the situation:
East St. Louis, 500 men out; Dem
yer 300; Omaha 1900; Ogden 400;
Macomb, Miss, 1000; Council Bluffs
100; Chicago 1000; Houston. Texas,
200; New Orleans 1900: Memphis
1900; Vicksburg 200; San Antonio,
Texas, 500; Kansas City. Mo-. 300;
Centralia. H., 500; Fresno. Calf, "A;
Sacramento Calf, 1.S00; San Fran
cisco, 400 Oakland, 400; Los Angeles,
400.
Trouble Begins Tonight.
The first handicap to traffic is ex-
pected tonight when the engines are
brought to the ash pits. The men say
and the engines will not be ready for
use tomorrow.
One hundred and fifty locomotives
in the course of repairs are in the
shops and more than 500 partly re-
paired cars are in the yards.
julius Kruttschnitt vice president
of the Hartman lines, who will rep
resent the Hartman lines in all ne
gotiations looking to end the strike.
returned here today from New York.
He said he had heard nothing from
railroad officials in the south and
west and he declined to make a state
ment.
On Stroke Of 10.
There was no signal given when
the hour arrived AS soon as the
clocks showed 10 o'clock the employees
began to walk out, groups of twenty
and thirty men quitting together as
they finished their individual tasks.
There was no demonstration.
The village Of Burnside, Is miles
south Of here, is populated almost en-
tirely by railway shopmen. Nearly all
the men who walked out went right to
their homes.
There were no strikebreakers at
hand and although the company is
reported to have force Of recruits
in Chicago, the men thought they
would not be taken to the works until
tomorrow.
There was delay in the delivery Of
the order to the machinists, and the
men in the machine shops had receiv-
ed no notification to strike at 10
o'clock. They quit work with the
others, however, but remained within
the stockade.
A telegraph messenger bearing the
order was stopped at the gate by the
railroad police, who prevented the de-
livery of the message. An open air
meeting will be held later in the day.
In Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, Calf, Sept. 3O.-One
hundred employees of the Santa Fe
roundhouse walked out, refusing to
do work transferred from the South
ern Pacific shops because it was "un-
fair"
In Oakland
Oakland, Calf, Sept. 30.-The
switchmen here have gone out in sym.
pathy with the shopmen, who struck
today, and a mass meeting has been
called to be held Immediately.
In Arizona.
Tucson, Ariz., Sept. 30-One hum
dred and fifty of the ITS men employ
ed in the Southern Pacific shops here
struck today. Twelve Chinese help
ers and few carpenters remained at
work.
In Stockton.
Stockton, Calf. Sept. 30.-But one
employee of the twenty-nine in the
Southern Pacific yards here walked
out this morning, all others refusing
to recognize the general order.
Injunction Issued.
New Orleans, La. Sept. 30.-Strik-
ing employees of the Illinois Central
and Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
railroads were today permanently en-
Joined by order of the United States
circuit court from interfering in any
manner with the railroads.
The injunction is sweeping and ap-
plies to ANY person" within the jur.
isdiction Of the court.
At Cheyenne.
Cheyenne, Wyo., Sept. 3O.-This
morning promptly at 10 o'clock three
hundred men in the Union Pacific
shops here laid down their tools and
walked out according to strike orders
issued from Union headquarters yes
terday. Among Those who walked out
were some non-union workmen, who
declare they will stay by the Union
men in their demands. After walking
out. mass meeting was held In
Eagles hall and many speeches were
made. The sentiment expressed IL In.
favor Of staying BY the action until
the questions have been settled and
the strike declared OF.
The speakers cautioned the men to
! maintain a peaceful and orderly de-
meanor. Samuel Gompers, prestd6nt
! Of the American Federation Of 1lab0n
naaaeSf through Cheyenne this niorfS