The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-06
new Men SWELL
SHOP FORCEIS
CRAFTS CLAIM
Assert Fewer Members of
Unions Back at Work.
Have No Definite Figures on
Forces Back in Shops.
UNIONS WILL "CLEAN HOUSE"
When Santa Fe Sets Time Limit
Says Publicity Manager.
john Purcell Says S@Time Limit''
Expired Last Saturday.

If the shop force at the Topeka
shops of the Santa Fe are being in
creased, it is due to the promotion of
laborers and helpers within the shops,
and the hiring of new men who were
not employed there before the strike.
it was declared today by F. w.
Rausch, publicity manager for the
striking shop crafts.
Rausch had no definite figures on
the number of men who are going
back to work, who are on strike, or
the new men who have been hired
he said. He based a statement that
there are fewer and fewer members
Of the striking craft going back to
work on the reported estimates of the
observers at the shop gates.
They tell us that there are fewer
members of the crafts going to the
shops every morning, and that those
who do go are taking different de-
Fourth street entrance one morning,
the Branner street entrance the next
morning, and then they go over to
North Topeka by street car and come
back over the bridge" Rausch said
He was not prepared to deny that
more men reported for work this
morning than on the first morning
of the strike, but insisted that the
men who did report are not members
of the striking crafts.
1t was today denied by Purcell that
he made the statement credited to
him in morning paper that the
company has not yet set a time limit
for the striking workers to return tc
the shops. 1t is expected that this
will be done soon, however. It is as
sumed when the company puts up it's
last day notice, the warning that all
who stay away from work will sever
connections with the company and
FOO f.T& all
After thelexpiFation of the time set
there will be no compromise."--- -7s,r'
An excerpt from a statement issued
from the offices of the Santa Fe to-
day is authoritatively interpreted as
meaning that men who did not go to
work Saturday and who had no valid
excuse for their absence are consid-
cred Sc be strikers, and their senior
ity, pass and pension privileges have
already been forfeited. If they go
they will go back with the status of
men who have never before been en-
pIoyed by the road.
Means "House Cleaning Day"
In discussing the time limit
statement of this morning, which has
since been discredited by Purcell, F.
w. Rausch, chairman of the publicity
committee for the striking shop crafts.
said:
"a time limit will be fixed by the
six shop crafts, as a house cleaning
day for the removal from membership
in the unions of all double crossers and
undesira bles-men who are to work
in the shops on that date.
The executive committee will start
the holding of open meetings at $3.50
o'clock each afternoon, and will pro-
vide speakers who will tell the facts
about the strike, both local and ma
tional."
Q. y. Sets July 8.
The following notice has been issued
by William Jeffers, general manager of
the Union Pacific, at Omaha:
-.-.. Omaha, July 5, 1922
Notice to former employees Union Pa
cific Railroad Company:
All men who have left the service of
decision Of the United States Railroad
Labor Board must return to duty, or
later than 5 100 O'Clock p. m. on Sat-
uday, July Sth, 1922, in order to re-
gain their pension and seniority rights.
VIM. JEFFERS, Gen1 Manager.
Rausch unhesitatingly defined the
new men who are being hired by the
company, as scabs and strike-breakers.
Denies Picketing Violence.
He again denied that there had been
any reports to the executive committee
of violence or threats in the course of
picketing and stated that the threats
from the state house Of the arrest or
union mem alleged to have threatened
non-union men or offered them vio-
lence, were uncalled for.
There are maintenance of way men
from the Topeka shops now registered
with the strikers, altho there has not
been any official strike order for that
union, Rausch stated this morning.
He was not able to state how many of
the maintenance of way force are thus
registered
I'VE don't know any more about the
actions of the national heads of the
of way men than you do
we get our information from the
press reports, too" Rausch said.
Reports From Other Points.
In a private letter addressed to a
Topeka shopman and posted on the
bulletin board at Labor Hall, it is
stated that the shop crafts on the
Florida East Coast railroad are out.
100 per cent, everywhere except in st.
where four men refused to
walk out until they had been assured
by the other men that they would not
show up Monday.
A telegram from a member of the
women's auxiliary organization of the
shop crafts at San Bernardino, Calf.
is also posted. and states that the
women of the auxiliary are rendering
service on the picket line there and
also in the visitation of the homes OF
men who are still in the shops.
other reports from points on the
system included in the official state
ment issued Wednesday night are as
follows:
''Ashfork, Ariz.-Au crafts are out
ar this point 100 per cent.
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