The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-15
SHOP WORKERS
SAY STRIKERS
HAVE own LAW
Issue Challenge for a Compare
son of Citizenship.
''Strikers Already Have Taken
Law Into Own Hands,"
THEY POINT To THE ARRESTS
Declare Wives Were Driven Out
of Garfield Park.
Say Russians, Not Q. S. Citi-
zens, Bother Workers.
THEY POINT To THE ARRESTS
Declare Wives Were Driven Out
of Garfield Park.
Say Russians, Not Q. S. Citi-
zens, Bother Workers.

Workers in the Santa Fe shops who
are keeping transportation lines open
thru Topeka today challenged the
strikers for a comparison of citizen
ship. In a letter to The State Jour
nal, representatives of the 2.25O shop
workers recounted acts OF violence in
timidation and law violation by the
strikers. A committee reprcsen ing
the workers asserted that the strikers
had not waited until after the passage
OF their resolution before taking the
law into their own hands.
Reply to the Strikers.
The statement from the workers
was in reply to a resolution passel by
the executive committee Of the shop
strikers and published in The State
Journal last evening branding workers
and guards as ex-convicts, hootleggcrs
and undesirable citizens. 1t was de-
clared that the strikers were mis-
treated and intimidated and boldly
defied law enforcement officers with
a statement that further acts would
be met as conditions seemed to de-
mand.
Workers today draw the attention
of the strikers to a comparison of ar
rests They point to a number of ar
rests of strikers in the last few weeks
and assert that in several instances
strikers left town and forfeited bonds.
General action of the strikers is
brought TO aICenI1On IN me Stateme enC.
Some Not American Citizens.
Bringing the case a bit nearer home
workers mention the fact that their
own wives were driven from Garfield
park by strikers recently and a band
concert broken up 1t is also charged
that the picket line of the strikers
contains Russians who are not Ameri-
can citizens.
In a challenge to the strikers to
establish their own record for good
citizenship. the committee represent
ing $500 workers in Topeka shops of
the Santa Fe sent this statement to
The State Journal: as
Editor Topeka State journal. .--
+,,d IN the resolution passed by the execu-
and published in yesterdays State Journal
the, strike leaders seem to be. greatly ex-
orcised about the character of the watch
men and workers employed by the Santa
Fe railway.
THE public should be apprised of the
facts of the situation, which are rs follows
since the strike began one of the
watchmen has been arrested and held for
innocent of charge preferred by strike
sympathizers until proven guilty. One
fIuence of liquor and was turned over to
the police by shop authorities.
They Left Town.
"In the same edition of the State Jour.
nal that printed the strikers resolutions
was article on the front page stating
| that one of strikers was arrested for be-
| This is his second offense since July 1
1 This party is president of the local fed.
Grafton of striking shop crafts which
passed yesterdays resolution. Two lead
! ers of striking shop men were arrested
August 4 for assaulting an apprentice and
/ as proof of their guilt, left town and for
feited $25 bond each.
| Compelled To Leave Park.
1T must be known to them that they
| have ex-convfcts ON the picket line. Last
! Sunday night at Garfield park, wives O1
| shop workers were compelled by strikers
| to leave the park-workmen were assaulted
and the band concert broken up.
Saturday and Monday mornings, August
| IL and II, a mob of Russian strikers, many
of them, not citizens of this country
! blocked the road and attempted to prevent
! shop men from getting to work by theii
usual routes.
| The daily press records riots. bOmt
i outrages and murders being committed by
! strikers and their sympathiZers upon peace
able citizens who don't approve of theil
/ lawless methods of enforcing their vii
upon the public.
| cit must be evident to anyone in touch
| with conditions that the rank and file oi
| the strikers did not wait for the resolu
/ tion to be passed before taking the law
/ into their own hands. These are but sam
/ Dles of the methods used by these crafts
/ ing these shops when they were employed
| therein
As a committee representing the 2,25C
men now employed in local shops OF th'
\ Santa Fe railway are willing for the
| public to judge us in comparison will
! , $50 of any class of citizens of Topeka.
| COMMITTEE SHOP EMPLOYEES"