The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-11
Twenty-Three Time Explosions
Within Santa Fe StOckade.
Terrorism Believed the Only
Thought in Planting Bursts.
SOUTHERN FACES BLAST, TOO
This Time Dynamite Comes in
at AsheviIIe, n. C.
ROundhOuSe Firemen on the
Wabash Make a Kick, Too.

Chicago, Aug. 11.-Operating off
ciaIs of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fc railroad in this city were planning
to take definite action today to break
the reported tieup in transcontinental
train service, caused by walkouts of
train employees at several western di-
vision points
According to C. w Lupton, as
sistant to the president in charge of
operations at Chicago. steps were to
be taken at once to move trains thru
Seligman, Ariz., and Needles, Cal, inn
portant railroad points affected by the
''blg four brotherhood walkout.
(By the Associated Press1
Los Angeles. Aug. 11.-Eastboundt
passenger service on the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe system is ted up and
thru trains will leave Los Angeles
until the walkout situation of the Big
-Four brotherhood in the Arizona divi-
sion, Centering at Needles, Cal, is
cleared up. it was announced today by
]. l.. Hibbard, general manager of the
Santa Fe coast lines.
Out on Southern Pacific.
San Francisco. Aug. IA report
reached the headquarters of the
brotherhood of Locomotive F'iremen
and Enginemen here that firemen
and their helpers, members of one OF
the big four" railroad unions, had
walked out today on the Salt Lake
division of the Southern Pacific rail-
road at ogden.
J. Ford, local chairman. was not
advised as to the number of men out,
but said he understood the entire
union personnel of that division was
affected.
The walkout was expected to have
the effect of tying up another i'm |
portant transcontinental route to the
west.
CBy The Associated Pressl
San Francisco, Aug. 11-Paralysis !
of the entire western territory of the !
Santa Fe system was in prospect to- |
day, as a result of the walkout yes !
terday of the engineers, firemen, con- /
ductors and trainmen, on several far |
western divisions.
The men explained their action was /
a protest against armed guards on |
railway property and against the al |
legged condition of certain equipment. /
Members of the brotherhood said they 1
would no longer move trains thru |
points where armed guards were sta 4
toned. Their district officials went !
into conference with Santa Fe eXecu- ]
tives last night but no basis of settle !
men had been reported early today. /
Desert Passenger Trains.
Several passenger trains, including /
the eastbound California limited, were /
deserted by their crews in Arizona or
southeastern California Some were |
stranded in scorchingly hot desert
spots.
At Los Angeles it was said further
conferences were possible today be-
tween brotherhood representatives
and officials of the Santa Fe. At the
conclusion OF last nights conference
/. L Hibbard. general manager of the
Santa Fe coast lines, stated that unless
conditions were changed today, Santa
Fe officials would advise passengers
not to take trains likely to be held up.
Brotherhood representatives indi- I
Gated there was little they could do
until they had communicated with
their executives in the east and had /
learned the exact situation at western
railway points affected
Thinks L. S. should Act.
New York. Aug. III believe the l.
government should take action against /
The Big Four brotherhood men who ]
went on strike on the Santa Fe,'' de-
clared L. F Loree, president of the
Delaware & Huds IN company The !
criminal code of the United States
provides that anybody obstructiug or
retardinE the passage of mails shall
be subject to heavy fine and imprison-
ment."
Il think this strike was premedi-
.ated and arranged so as to compli-
cate matters for today's meeting of
executives TO consider the presidents
proposals for settlement" he declared.
Bombs Inside Stockade.
(By the Associated Press.l
San Bernardino. Cal. Aug. IL
Twenty-three time bombs have ex-
pIoded at intervals from 1880 to 5
o'clock this morning in the stockade
Of the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe
within two hundred feet of the COM