Weekly journal-miner., 1922-08-16
LOCAL YARDS LIKE
 UNCLE SAYS CAMP

One portion of the local Santa Fe railroad yards resembles a training camp. In sma1l way It is, like single bunk-and-mess unit of one of Uncle Sam's camps where the vast majority of Young America and a good share of its older brothers passed a lot of not months training to do battle with the well-known Hun.
 There is this important difference, however: No one in the Santa Fe camp" is preparing to do battle and there is no talk of "the enemy" The only training going on is that of 5S non-uni0n employees of the railroads s mechanical department, who are un- dergoing training in the mechanical care of railroad equipment. Quiet and order would seem to be the daily routine
 The members of the camp" are men employed to take the places of striking Federated Shop Crafts workers. The force is about equally divided between white men and Mex jeans, with one or two colored men. During the strike of the shopcrafts workers, the railroad has erected a wooden bunk-house weathered with tar paper, and a mess-hall similarly built. The bunk-house is divided in- to two sections, in one of which the white men sleep, and in the other the Mexican and colored workers.
 Conditions obtaining in the yards at present were inspected yesterday by a representative of the Journal Miner, at the invitation of Master Mechanic Charles NJ. Raitt, who piloted the reporter around the yards and explained the present status of shop work there
 The men employed to take the places of union shop mechanics are paid the standard wage set by the railway labor board and in addition are provided with sleeping quarters and food The mess-hall stands a i few yards distant from and at right angles to the bunk-house. Table room sufficient to care for about 70 men IS provided by two long plank tables running the length of the hall and provided with benches. A kitchen occupies the rear end Of the hall.
 During the reporters visit the men were eating supper. Except that they were without uniforms, the place might easily have been taken for one of the army's rookie" camps Of 1917. (There was also less noise than there was in the army.) Mir. Raitt explained that about eight of the men were absent. This was the crew employed to work at night.
 All of the non-union mechanical employees of the road are quartered and fed at the yards, with the ex- ception of a number of Mexican wipers, who as members of the main tenance of way local are not affected by the Federated Shop Crafts strike and who eat and sleep at their homes in Prescott.
 The general appearance and atmos- phere of the yards was noticeably quiet, a condition made much more impressive by the absence of train men, enginemen and firemen, who quit work Friday evening. Every thing was still Not an engine was in motion, and since it was after o'clock not a wheel in the shops was turning. The reporter was assured that the shop wheels turned during working hours. One or two guards strolled about the yards, And on a sidc-track the passenger cars of No. 402 which was stopped at Prescott when it arrived at Il o'clock Friday night, were occupied by 16 unluclly passengers whose journey was brought to an abrupt halt at Pres colt by the decision of the three brothcrhoods to quit work.