| Show THE C B Qa STRIKE The Brotherhood of Engineers Engin-eers Pledge Themselves TO SUPPORT THE STRIKERS Meeting of Relegates in Tammany Hail on Sunday Resolutions General Notes The Strike PITTSBDBG March HA general meeting of the Brotherhood of Engineers in which all local Brotherhoods Brother-hoods were represented was held today to-day The ChicagoTurlington Quincy strike and the manner in which it is being conducted were approved The moral and financial support of all lodges represented was pledged As to the matter of the strike of lines centering center-ing in Pittsburg nothing whatever was said and several delegates when spoken to said nothing was further from their mind DEJ VEB Col March 11 Governor Adams in conversation with the Associated Asso-ciated Press tonight regarding Lan bees letter to President Perkins and the decision of the railroad commis sioners at Dos Moines yesterday said I am of the opinion that the decision of the commissioners upon ihe matter of per itting incompetent engineers to run passenger trains on tho Burlington road is right and just and no man wlo has not proven himself competent to run locomotives should be permitted to jeopardize the lives of hundreds of passengers as well as the property of the company by being put in charge of a train Were my opinion asked as to the best way to settle the present trouble I would advise the officials of the Burlington to accede at once to the demands of the engineers and firemen fire-men upon the basis of the wages paid these men by other corporations having hav-ing as extensive territory as the Bur lingtun If this is impossible then I heartily agree with the ideas of the Governor Gov-ernor of Iowa embodied in his letter to President Perkins advising settlement by arbitration immediately I CHICAGO March HChief Ecgineer Arthur said to an Associated Press reporter re-porter that he considered the decision of the Iowa railroad commissioner eminently fair and impartial He also thought the letter of Governor Larra bee to President Perkin the Burlington lington would be comm J I y the traveling public and the pu generally gen-erally The Governor after thorough thor-ough investigation said he has found there is someting to arbitrate Burlington officials to the contrary notwithstanding and has advised the president cf the Q accordingly As to situation having been narrowed down to a game of frcze out continues Arthur It remains to be shown now long the directors and stockholders will sustain the present bankrupt policy of he management a policy with no sufficient suf-ficient cause For our part we are confident that the Brotherhood can stand it longer than tho owners of the road will be willing to stand it Our advices are that but 30 per cent of the usual local business is being done and no through business Burlington members of the Brotherhood will be sustained by the entire organization just as long as the men wish or require help and teat is certainly longer than he Q can go without through through freight or fast passenger rains None of the Brotherhood men have deserted added the Chief with evident pride and I predct that none of them will The cuief then referred to the clause in the constitution of the I order requiring the instant expulsion I of any man found intoxicated and a notification to the road employing him hat he was an unfit person to have charge of an engine as well as other eats of character During the past fourteen years not a single Brotherhood Brother-hood engineer ever deserted his engine without using every possible precaution to save the lives of his passengers and the public well know how many have died at the post of duty I attribute this remarkable record to the fact that I these men must be sober skilled moral intelligent men of nerve and principle in jll this the great public has been benefited during the life of the organ ization I have only to say furthar hat the nerve of these men has and will be demonstrated in the Q strike NEW YORK March HA meeting with closed doors of delegates from different ferent local assemblies throughout the United States of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Eoginet r3 and Firemen was held in Tammany Hall today About L800 delegates representing 20000 engineers en-gineers and firemen were present The situation of the Burlington road was explained ex-plained by one of the strikers and then I a resolution was adopted as follows Resolved That we as lawabiding citizens of the United States declare to the railway managers who have been secretly aiding and abetting tho Burlington Bur-lington road with the view of defeating the just demands of its old engineers and firemen by sending them incompetent incompe-tent and irresponsible persons as engineers engi-neers and firemen thereby endangering public safety that if they do not withdraw with-draw said men from the service of said company we as individuals will use our own discretion about remaining in their employ after u certain date We do not say to managers of certain railroads I rail-roads connecting with the Burlington that they shall not exchange traffic for being aware of the duties of common com-mon carriers we do not propose to interfere in-terfere with the laws governing the same but as individuals we recommend that each and every engineer and fireman fire-man in the employ of such connecting road or system use his own individual judgment as to whetherit will bo for his interest to remain in the employ of such railroads after a certain date The resolutions further pledge moral and financial support to tho strikers condemn the action of the Burlington as mean penurious and worthy of the contempt of all fairminded men It is declared that the Burlington road is positively misrepresenting its present condition Thanks are extended to certain managers of railroads connecting connect-ing with the Chicago Burlington Quincy for the kindnesses already extended ex-tended to managers of other roads who have given the men assurance of favorable favor-able consideration Also to friends of the press pulpit and elsewhere It is recommended that the engineers and firemen call a special session 6f their respective grand conventions to be held at Chicago at an early date CHICAGO March 12 A Times special from St Louis says all railroads terminating termi-nating in East St Louis stopped handling Burling Burlingtonfreight tit > oclock this evening This was due to a resolution adopted at a meeting of engineers and firemen and brakemen this afternoon Twelve roads are affected by the order CHICAGO March 12Robert Lincoln attorney the Wabash Railway appeared ap-peared in Judge Greshams Court at 2 oclock this afternoon and filed en answer an-swer to the petition of the Chicago Burlington Quincy Railroad request the court to compel the receiver to comply with the regulations of the interstate law etc The answer admits ad-mits that orders were issued on March 7th not to handle QJ freight as they did not like to disturb the friendly re Jatnng existing between the WRhnh tndit tmpoyie < but says thatthes oruers were rev ked on Saturday las and the following substituted I All orders and directions heretof re given by me or by any officer or agent of this road which has been understood as limiting the interchange of cars or traffic with the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railway or anv of the roads in that system are rescinded The business of receiving and interchanging cars and traffic by this road with thf Chicago Burlington ond Quincy Railway Rail-way and all of ihe roads of that system will go on upon the same terms ann conditions as those which similar business busi-ness is done by this road with otht r connecting railroads The answer requests that the petition be dismissed at the petitioners cost KANSAS CITY Mo March 12 Judge Grjshmans decision on the liability of roads refusing Burlington freight is anxiously awaited here by both the railroad rail-road and the men As an indication of the prevailing uneasiness it may be said that several roads have been refusing re-fusing since Saturday afternoon to accept i ac-cept perishable fm igbt such as livestock live-stock packing house products etc Among these roads were the Santa Fe Union Pacific and FortScott Gulf Two days more of this embargo would close down all packing houses in the city and throw 15000 men out of employment em-ployment I |
