The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-30
ONE-FOURTH OF
SHOPMEN WILL
WALK OUT HERE
This Is Accepted Estimate for
the Topeka Shops.
Several Workers Reported to
Have Discarded Buttons.
STRIKERS TO GO TO LABOR HALL
Notices of TOmOrrOw's Plan
Posted in Shops Today.
Union Men Told to Accept Only
the Telegraph Orders.
BIG PLANT TO Be KEPT OPEN
Santa Fe VIII Operate Despite
the WalkOut Here.
Men Who Quit VIII Lose All
Benefits-JOhn Purcell.
BIG PLANT TO Be KEPT OPEN
Santa Fe VIII Operate Despite
the WalkOut Here.
Men Who Quit VIII Lose All
BenefitS-JOhn Purcell.

Despite the fact that orders have
been given to the men to strike to-
morrow m3rutng at 10 o'clock. it was
said on good autho1fty this afternoon
that the walkout at tic Santa Fe
shops in Topeka would not eAceed 25
per cent.
Many of the men, some of them
union members for years, after throw
ing their buttons on the ground. have
informed their foremen they will re-
main on the job, according to reports.
Scores of others, tho silent on the
matter. will refuse to answer the cali,
it is said.
mot more than half of the men in
the locomotive department are or
ganized. 1t is a cinch those who are
not organized won't strike and / don't
believe more than so per cent of the
union fellows will walk out. More
may strike in the car department. as
those fellows over there are sore be-
cause they got bigger cut"
This coming from one of the men
at noon today seems to spell the situa-
ton. He wasn't talking for publica-
ton because he didn't know he was
talking to newspaper reporter, but
that was the expression which came
from him in an offhand manner. Sew
eral other men, while saying they had
no idea of what was going to take
place. expressed the hope that some
strike.
shops VIII Not Be Closed.
The announcement Thursday that
the shops would not shut down. and
supplement last night by the posting
of notices calling attention to the fact
that employees who walk. out Saturday
will lose their Jobs permanently, Is be-
lieved to be partly responsible for this
feeling.
Not only will the shopmen who
a n he fr{ly find hav
out of work permanently so far as the
Santa Fe is concerned, but the notice
declares they will also forfeit all
rights under the pension and death
benefit plan, which means they will
lose all of the advantages gained thru
long years of seniority.
Unions Wont Talk.
Members of the various shop crafts
were in session at Labor hall last
night, but deferred definite action
again. Spokesman for the shop crafts
appear to be few. T. Huntington,
chairman of the local federated shop
crafts, has so far denied an interview,
saying he had nothing to give out,
but 1t is said that any action they
take will be carried out soIidly by all
of the unions under the leadership OF
Frank Martin, an officer Of the car
mems organization.
Police to Give Protection.
It is reported that a committee was
appointed at the meeting last night to
confer with Sheriff Bob Miller and the
police department in outlining a policy
for mutual protection in the event the
men, go out and the strike continues
ind definitely. Following the recent
outbreak in Illinois. every precaution
will be takeen to prevent trouble. Il
was said today, and none Is expected.
The strike order as posted in ths
shops this morning is the same as
that sent out by the shop craft heads
from Chicago Thursday morning II
simply sanctions the suspension Of
work at 10 o'clock Saturday morning.
local chairmen with orders for the
men to actually quit work at that
hour.
Orders To Quit Here.
'Tn compliance with the instruc-
tions given" the order made by the
cease work at 10 O'Clock Saturday
morning" The notice orders the men
to quit their Jobs quietly and report
to their leaders at Labor Hall Il also
asks the men to take all tools with
them so they cannot be used against
them by members of the new family"
Members are also urged to forget
press reports and depend on orders
coming direct from the heads of their
orga nizations.
1t will be necessary for the carmen
TO decide what they are going to do
about the order Immediately as II will
be up to them to stay or walk out at
10 o'clock Satul day morning. Since
the 800 men employed in the Iocomo-
tive department are working only five
days a week the number who decide
to strike will not be known until Mon
day morning.
Orders have been issued by the
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