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Show STRIKERS ESTABLISH PICKET LINE PATROL TOPEKA, Kan., May 6.-Picket line patrol pa-trol by the union machinists is the principal prin-cipal noticeable feature in ' the Santa Fe shops strike at Topeka. They are warned to keep away from the railroad property, but overstep bounds occasionally. General Manager Mudge of the Santa Fe says few of the union machinists are coming com-ing back to work along the system, but that the road is finding no trouble in securing se-curing the required help to keep up the engines and the shops running. J. D. Buckalew, who is directing the machinists' strike at this place, said today to-day that the association would probably submit a proposition tor settlement within with-in the next forty-eight hours. "It is not a closed shop that we want." he said, "but a contract, so that the machinists ma-chinists may have a ready idea of the work to be required of them, of which they now have a very vague idea." |