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Show DICKINSON IS Wm. He Issues An Ultimatum to the Conductors Conduc-tors of the Union Pacifio Which They DEOLAEE THEY WILL NOT ACCEPT. Other Eailroad News of Intorest to the People on the Various ' Lines. The Union Pacilie conductors received re-ceived General Manager Dickenson's reply to their ultimatum last Saturday, but have not as yet had an opportunity to act upon it. If the terms offered by him are accepted, the proposed great meeting Juno 2d with Vice-President Holcomb will not bo held, lint there is a disposition not to decide the matter dutinitely until after the Rochester convention, con-vention, which meets next Tuesday. The conductors asked for an increase in Wages. This has been refused. They also asked for less mileage. Mr. Dickenson grants four extra crews, two on tho main line between Omaha and Cheyenne, and t wo on the Kansas Pacilie Pa-cilie division between Kansas City and Denver. The conductors wanted the pay of the branch road men raised from $;K) to $100 a month. This was denied. As to the matter of ligh engine runs, Mr. Dickenson agreed to send out a conductor or brakeman who had passed the proper examination for a conductor and givo them the pay of a conductor whenever it was necessary to have a pilot. "There are engineers on the road," wivs Mr. Dickenson, "who can take a light engine over their district as well without n pilot as with one." Tho ultimatum demanded a conductor con-ductor aud, at least, one brakeman be sent out with every train. This, Mr. Dickenson informs them, is a matter resting with the management. It is only in cases where officers, sometimes, go on a special, that neither conductors nor brakeinen are needed. Then the roadmaster aud engineer can attend to tlie business. In its appeal on demands, the committee commit-tee calls attention to rules that govern the employes on the Iowa lines. "I would bo perfectly willing," declares de-clares tho general manager, "to fashion the schedule after that of any road they decide to select. It would be largely in the company's favor, because, as a whole, we pay our trainmen bigger salaries than any western road. There may be a few instances in which passenger pas-senger conductors get a little more, but there is not a line that pays its brake-men brake-men aud baggagemen as much. "As to the question of overtime, we never had a ruling on that subject. I made one. In substance it is that a man's time begins from the moment his train is marked to go out. All the time ho puts in over twelve hours will bo considered extra at tho rate of 12 miles an hour aud three cents a mile on tho basis of 100 miles, and lifteen hours over that limit ten miles an hour." The couduclors also wanted the extra time rated at ten miles an hour, but Mr. Dickeuson could not agree with them. Tlie general manager feels that these demands were more than his company could stand. Ho concedes that the mileage was largo. It has been reduced, "but I could not," says Mr. Dickenson, "consent to roduco mileage and at the samo time raise tlie pay. They cannot accuse mo of treating them unfairly. I do not blamo them for frying to get more pay, but if they fail there should be no disposition to accuse nio of not acting perfectly fair aud friendly with them iu tho matter from beginning to und " |