| Show SUPREME COUNCIL Of the Federated Railway Employees Em-ployees Decided Against the Chicago o Northwestern Switch menThe Men Recommended to Swich for ReinstatementThe Trouble CHICAGO May l6The supreme council I of Federated Railway Employees decided I against the Chicago Northwestern switchmen this evening The council I recommended the switchmens officers ofcers to call upon the railway officials with a view to the reinstatement of as many of their old hands as places could be provided for The proceedings of the council were prolonged and stormy At the close of the session I which lastd nearlv pIAVAn nn C V t rgtlL said representatives of the switchmen and their opponents the trainmen had each been given a hearing and the course of the former in demanding the discharge of Yardmaster Mclnery deemed unjustifiable From unjustfable others it was learned all out of town switchmen outofownswlchmen would be probably reinstated upon application and the same was true of many Chicago switch men be somewhat The switchmen appeared tonight to embittered toward the fire men Neither fre Sergent nor Debs having voted on any question before the council ostensibly because the Order of Trainmen had no quorum present but really it is as prsent realy serted s from a desire not to be put on record The question of the action the railroad was setted sustainsng by a vote acton to of 3 f t favoringthe favoringt company A resolution intro duced by the switchmen was swichmen adopted by the same vote requiring the trainmens of ficers to request the company to remove trainmen who havebeen given switchmens places and that the switchmen be rein stated The trainmen however voted against the resolution and the of the supreme council who is one secretary of the trainmen refused to sign it and Wilkia son chief of the trainmen was requested point klank to act upon it The outcome of the action of the council therefore counci is far from settled Yardmaster Brooks whose name figured in the interviews brought out by the strike and who is a member of the Trainmens brotherhood was discharged from the Northwestern railroads service with the Northwestrn |
