The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-08
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from this department who were discharged
are being looked up and deplored upon
to come back to work. This is the only
or Mexican cIassed as mechanics.
THE observers in the coach department
average output from this department Is
from sixty to eighty coaches p per month 18th.
day. So far in the past seven days no
coaches have been put out altho there was
a large number that were eomparaDly I'M
ished ON the day Of the strike.
''The machine and boiler shop observers
submit 3pi farc cep on ne n iob and So Of
that 1870 instructing a fair representation
| of negro and Mexico how to conduct luz them hen
THE report from the freight car shops
called attention to the fact that w1 me
number Of men going into the shops in the
mornings they had failed to mention that
is pulled out Of the shops every morning
had vanised, and that the cars that were
repaired before the strike and were ready
of an emergency, in that when loaded
car arrives in Topeka in a crippled condi-
ton it is switched to the car shops where
a force of negroes are employed to transfer
| its freight to one of the repaired cars.
! Rausch declared again today that
registration of strikers at Labpr Hail
| is increasing daily
In regard to the statement this
morning that the Santa Fe is issuing
discharge checks to the men who went
to strike Saturday, Rausch said that
additional blank checks for this pdr-
pose were called for from the station
cry department.
This means that there were more
than 1880 men on strike Saturday,
because they always have a supply of
those discharge checks at the motive
power Offices" Rausch said LAS
matter of fact, we have more than
that number of carmen registered on
strike, to say nothing of the other
crafts"
Other Unions Offer Help.
The following was included in the
official statement of the strikers
Friday night:
eve have just received assurances from
members Of all the railroad organizations
| including the four brOtherhoods that in
the event that their assistance is necessary
for us to win this fight that 1t Will pc
| forthcoming on short notice, however, their
| assistance Is not required at the present
s sim f have to cali on them for assistance
| as We consider out fight practically Won
and that it IL only question este r. o. new edg ys
it, in fact, they are working overtime spar
ring for loop hole large enough-to keep
from getting skinned when they back thru
| The following letter was received
from the Topeka Building Trades
council today by the executive COM
mittee OF the strikers:
TOPEKA BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL.
To All Shop Crafts on Strike:
| The Topeka Building Trades Council
in YOUR great fight for justice The. rank
and file, where the brunt of the fight must
fall. have shown they are men OF noble eie
/ they are big enough and broad-minded
| enough to be above the using. of any I'M
/ treat YOU to remain cheerful and congenial.
and above all keep your morale up to the
high standard that characterizes the union
Right has never lost. You are right.
iutegrity. and With Your whoie-souIed sup
port cannot lose your fight for Justice.
R d. BENNETT, Secretary.
| Concerning Strikers Families.
Rausch commented upon the state
upon their employees to consider the
| welfare of their families before goine
on strike, in the following words:
THE company officials are showing
a lot more interest in the welfare OF
1 the employees families than they
showed last summer when they laid
the men off for five months They
have certainly had a change OF heart
during the past year"
Rausch also disagreed with the
statement of officials that train serv-
lice has not been impaired He
charged that Train No. failed &c
come thru Topeka at all. Friday.
1t was stated at the passenger sta
ton of the Santa. Fe today that No
2 was three hours late, and therefore
was annulled and sent over the OF
twa cut off. Rausch said it was re-
ported to the strike committee that
Train No. IL was stalled on a grade
out of Topeka. Friday night, on ac-
fcount of brake trouble due to i'm
proper inspection in the yards at To
tpeka- He stated that the St JOSEPH
train was crippled here when the car
men did not appear to uncouple the
Ivestibules of the cars. The switch
men uncoupled the cars, Rausch said
land when the first car was pulled
away, all the vestibules were torn out
Company Gets Gas Bombs.
It has been reported to the strike