The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-05
Many New Features Develop in
Topeka Strike Situation.
Motive Power Officials Search
for Former Employees.
1,349 men AT WORK TODAY
Labor Union Leaders Do Most
of Work by Phone.
No Interruption in Santa Fe
Train Service Today.

The Santa Fe shops over the entire
system opened at the usual hour this
morning with all departments in cper-
sr;on, &C ;1rdiEg to an announcements
by John Purcell In the Topeka
shops 1,349 men are at work. as
against 1,167 at work Monday. he
said A few new men have been en-
ployod, but n1ost of the gain is made
Up % work Gers who for one cause or
arother did not show up Moniay
morning.
Mr.. Purcell takes exception to the
statement made by F. w. Rausch of
the publicity committee of the strik-
ing shopmen about pensioners being
called to work by the Santa Fe. Mr..
Eausch said:
'Unconfirmed reports are that old
men retired on pensions are being
shows that PurcelPs expression of
sympathy for long and faithful serv-
ice is only a myth ---ts 49,
Won't Call on Pensioners.
Mr.. Purcell says that in support of
his expression of sympathy for old
and faithful employees and as evidence
of his sincerity he has declined the Of
fer of several pensioners to return to
" ork, sending to every pensioner
making the offer the following letter:
Receipt is acknowledged OF your
letter of July -, rendering your
very much your offer of assistance,
but do not believe it will be neces-
sary to call on you. thank you most
heartily for the offer OF your serv-
ices"
There are now on the pension roll
ninety Topeka shop employees, and not
one of them has been asked to go to
work, Mr.. Purcell says. He offered to
furnish The State Journal a list of
these pensioners.
Mr.. Rausch's statement ahout tbe
number of men out in Topeka and
elsewhere on the Santa Fe is in har-
mony with his assertion about the
pensioners, and evidently intended to
II believe that our employees who are
Stil on the job, as well as the men who
have left the service, will not be mis-
led by a campaign of misrepresenta-
ton"
No Interruption of Train Service.
There has been no interruption of
train service, according to a statement
made by w. K Etter, general manager
Etter declined to comment about
the action of the sheriff of Cowley
county in appointing strikers to be
deputies.
No serious disorder has been re-
ported to Santa Fe officials today
An occasional snatched dinner pail
and a few threats over the telephone
constituted the offenses, IT was stated
Several new features of the strike
situation developed in Topeka today.
All of them are likely to have a big
part in tn final settlement of the strike
of railroad shopmen.
Active picketing and organized gath
ering on street corners was well
broken up this morning. The shop
district was under better police pa
ers laid down their tools.
Many New Men at Work
Many new men are going into the
shops to fill places left by union men
VINO answered the strike call.
Motive power officials have begun
combing of the old records of shop
employees 1t means that large force
of men who in recent years left the
shops to engage IN other employment
may be back on the job.
None of the labor union heads were
actively at work in the shop district
this morning. They seemingly pre-
ferred to do their work from an Of
flee and to give instructions to lieu
tenants by telephone. The telephone
picketing plan seems TO have been
taken up in a general effort to side
step dangers of arrest under picketing
provision of the Industrial court law.
No Disturbances in Kansas.
Governor Allen said today that all
reports received this morning showed
no disturbances of any kind in KAN
Sas- ne Sd4u tnaI Speclal investigators
had been sent to investigate the re-
ports that pickets were being used at
Arkansas City. Parsons and Newton,
and that reports were that there was
nothing serious at any of these points.
The governor said the situation in
Topeka with regard to picketing was
reported much better this morning.
Hundreds Report for Work
Long before the o'clock whistle
blew at the Santa Fe shops this morn
ing hundreds of men reported for
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