The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1915-05-13
WAGE FIxER AIDED IN
CRUSHING STRIK ERS

The 65,000 engineers, firemen and
hostlers on the 90 western railroads
between Chicago and Pacific coast
we're handed a trimming from the
arbitration board that gave out the
award on wages and working condi-
tions yesterday after five months sit
ting in the postoffice building and lis
tening to evidence.
The rail workers were slashed up
one side and down the other. Never
has their been cheaper fizzle in re-
suits from arbitration than what
came last night. On surprise tests,
and on added helper for firemen show
cling coal on the big 1876, 5,00o-pound
locomotives, on way freight service
increases, all down the long line Of
demands, the railroad brotherhoods
get the AK.
Sitting on the arbitration board
was Charles Nagel, picked as a neu-
tral, as an umpire, not supposed to
have any leanings one way or the
other. Now comes Warren Stone,
chief of the engineers, and w. s. Car
ter, chief of firemen, and show Nagel
as a companion Of sluggers and gun
men during the st. Louis street car
strike of 1900.
Nagel, according to evidence now
brought out, was captain of militia
} forces that killed four strikers and
wounded more In that st. Louis
strike.
At the brotherhood rooms in the
Great Northern hotel they show ar
interview in the st. Louis Globe
Democrat Of April 2, 1909, in a story
, from Washington signed by James
says:
II volunteered my services TO the
sheriff. In six hours | reported with
75 men. II was company com
posed Of lawyers, clerks and porteri
7 from stores and warehouses. We put
on rough rider uniforms and wer,
3 armed with riot guns, each of which
shot seven bullets with every pull o.
the trigger and made a noise lik,
thunder. We were on duty 21 day.
and nights and established ordei
wherever we were sent"
Richard Fairchild, formerly Of tn,
2 Record-Herald stag, now head of th'
press bureau Of the railroad brother
{ hoods, went to st. Louis and lookes
: up Nagel's record. What he found i
! reported in a statement issued yes
: terday to all Chicago newspapers.
t says:
Charles Nagel is regarded in 81
= Louis as corporation man. In tn
r Post Dispatch, July s, 1914, appear
e "a statement that Mr.. Nagel was TO re
ceive 100000 in commissions for hi
: services as trustee of the estate o
Adolphus Busch, the brewer. Othe
= newspaper statements indicate late
{ Mr.. Nagel was given this fee.
I "ln the st. Louis -Democra
!. of June 8, 1910, page IL, column 4, ap
= pears an item saying Charles Mage
e was captain of Co. 81. On June II
r same paper, il stated Lieutenant Welt
r eel Of Capt. Chas. Nagels compan
was active in the riot zone and clear
e ed the streets of the crowd. Four Q
J. the strikers were killed on that da.
e Those who killed the striking stree
Is car men were named in the newspape
IS Of that date.
u I'm Washington interview in l9O
J. Mr.. Nagel admitted he had many {
g the strikers arrested and PERSONAL
It saw them through the police cour
N He referred to some arrested striker
'e as samples apparently men to
y selected to be put through the Leg
mill. He said he went to the coul
with them and saw them sent to Il
workhouse.'
e. Capt. Nagel's company attracts
y much attention at the time becaui
ar of their new rough rider uniforms, n
T. cording To the Globe-Democrat, Jul
10 i3, 1900, page 4. The reporters en-
We phasized side arms worn by troo
~ ers, revolvers suspended under Il
'n arm pits by leather straps"
s. Then follows statements from
IL Louis papers showing Nagel was q
or torney for the Water-Pierce Oil c.
u u Standard Oil branch. He got $50
Mt as a fee in one case.
es The law firm of Nagel d Kirby, Il
he past five years acted as attorneys Z
the Manufacturers Railway Co. of
Louis. The road has 20 miles
track and Is owned by the Busch Z
lip tate for which Nagel is now truste,
de In a telegram to President Wilso
u Stone and Carter cite Nagel as a I
of rector in the Union Trust Co. Of
sw Louis and also director in Mort
western Mutual Life Insurance Co.
of Milwaukee. Both companies hold
punches of railroad stocks, The U
Ia, ion Trust Co. $i2,000,000 first mo
gage bonds of the st. Louis, Brown
he vile a Mexico Railroad, which ro
was a party to the arbitration.
mt The Day Book will have seve
stories of the railroad workers--m,
me about how and why they got tri
med.--The Chicago Day Book.