The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-08
Discharge Checks To Be Re.
ceived by Striking ShOpmen.
John Purcell Says Notice of
Last Week VIII Stand.
1851 men At WORK TODAY
Employees Who Left July 1 to
Get Pay Monday.
Freight and Passenger Service
Is Normal, Says w. X. Etter.

Discharge checks today were issued
to all striking shopmen of the Santa
Fe railroad in Topeka With this an
nouncement from John Purcell. in
charge of mechanical matters, came
a statement that 1881 men are at
work in the Topeka shops of the COM
pany, gain of "a over Friday.
The issuance of discharge checks
means that the Santa Fe is standing
on the notice given to shop employees
two days before the strike. as follows:
'If you leave your work you will
bring great suffering upon yourselves
and those dear to you; you win sever
relations with the company whose Of
Ulcers have your best interests at
heart, and will forfeit all rights under
the pension and death benefits, which
the company's interest IN your well
fare has provided. Men who stay at
work will be afforded full protection"
To Pay Off Monday.
The notice about discharge checks
reads as follows: Employees who
left the service July 1 and since
and have not returned, who have
not been paid by time check. may
obtain checks for thier services
for the last half of June and for any
time worked in July by calling at the
Adams streets. between the hours of
a. m. and IL noon, ana and 5 D.
M on Monday and Tuesday, July 10
and H."
Purcell would not discuss the state-
ment issued by the strikers about the
class of employees now in the shops.
1T is possible that some of the men
who formerly were In the service of
the Santa Fe are prejudiced," he said.
we are taking care OF all our needs
and the work put out is UP to Santa
Fe standard"
Freight and passen5er train move
ment on the Santa Fe is normal. ac-
cording to w. X. Etter. general man
ager.
Everything is going along smooth
ly," he said. I'VE have not had a
single complaint about service on ac-
count of the strike. Patrons who
travel and ship freight apparently are
not disturbed. Business actually is
improving"
Do Not Work Saturdays.
This is a low tide day in the strike
situation. At all division points and
railroad centers short forces Of men
are being employed. Many of the
shop crafts in Topeka and other large
shop towns do not work Saturdays.
Most of the rail officials expect a
decided improvement in conditions
when whistles blow Monday morning.
Some of the roads have promised to
reinstate employees who are on the job
at that time. The Santa Fe, however,
is staying with its hard. fast rule. The
men who walked out must come back
as new employees.
No Demonstrations Permitted.
Little disturbance from Eu KIux
Klan demonstrations is expected. Fri
day night Governor Allen sent teIe-
grams to all county attorneys, sheriffs
and other law enforcement officials
instructing them that no masked
parades or demonstrations would be
permitted in Kansas.
In his statement the governor as
serts that the mask has been worn
exclusively as a cloak for crime and
that 1t will not be permitted in this
state. 1.-The idea of masking" he Baid,
'1s associated in this state inseparably
with violence and the inescapable ef-
feet of it is to create fear and terror
in the mind of the citizen who has no
occasion to employ disguise"