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S,, 2,115 EN 3 STRIKE ON SANTA
FE'S WESTERN LINES, H ADQUARTERED AT AHARILLO, AND SERVING ALL
OF TEXAS, PARTS OF KANSAS, OKLAHOMAA, L)UISIAN AND NEW MEXICO. THE
ANOTHER% DIVISION AT FORT WORTH HAS 530 IEN CUT AND THE SOLITHERN
DIVISION AT TEMPLE HAS, 455 MEN OUT.
THE NORTHBOUND HOUSTON-CHICAGO A "TRAK PRESS DID- NOT RUN TODAY
AS THE STRIKE DEADLINE CAM: BEFORE ITS DEPARTURE TIME. BUT THE
SOUTHBOUND CHIEF, WHICH LEFT CHICAGO LAST NIGHT, IS, BEING TAKEN ON TO
HOUSTON BY SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL. THIS IS THE ONT Y PASS-NGE2 TRAIN
US ING THE SANTA FE SYSTEM.
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FREIGHT TRAINS 'ALREADY T rTE ARE BEING HANDLED BY NO rT-STRIKING
STAFF UNTIL THEY REACH THIR D5TIUATION. OTHER SUPERVISORY STAF1
WORK SWITCHES IN THE P-LAS-FORT IJORTh} YARDS. BUT AN UMKN OU QUANTITY
OF EAST AND NORTH COU\D CAL IORNI PRODUCE WAS STALLED I 'N YARDS QN
TRAINS A .< T
USTON'S BUSY PORT WAS HARD HIT WHEN WORKERS, OF ITS HAIN
SWITCHING LINE, HOUSTON BELT ANN) TERtI'AL, WALKED OFF THE JOB. THE
LIIN1 NORMALLY SHUFFLES 3,000 FREIGHT CARS A DAY OVER ITS 23a WILES OF
TRACK AND .HAS 1,200 EMPLOYES. THIS PLUS THE EARLIER SOUTHERN
PACIFIC STRIKE IS REPORTED TO THREAT EIN A REDUCTION OF RAIL SERVICE
TO THE PORT OF HOUSTON AUTHORITY BY AT LEAST 7T PER CENT.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Train strike], script, July 30, 1971, 12:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1427237/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.