Show BIG STRIKE BREWING wabash employees threaten to tie vp up tho the system I 1 st louis sept 24 the post DIs patch this afternoon declares that hut there Is a MR big strike brewing on the wabash railroad with the intention to tie up the entire system from toledo to kansas city the paper adda forse for several eral weeks tho the company through its officials has been quietly ferreting out the members of tho the various brother hoods in its employ and one by one on they have beben discharged the reason riven given usually being incompetency drunkenness bad records or other causes equally as good and tho the discharged men had bad no recourse it Is claimed however that a majority of the men discharged were re 1 leased because they are arc members re of f the brotherhood of locomotive ell engineers 91 brotherhood of locomotive FI firemen Is order ot of railway trainmen order of railway conductors or the taft SwIt chimens mutual aid association these ilvo five organizations embrace a all ii classes of men actually engaged on the road in keeping trains moving and they are arc said to be well v ell organized an engineer said today th that at the lodges of all five orders tit at decatur springfield and kansas city would take the matter up and demand the reinstatement of all men nt ho he are arc not discharged for good cool and sufficient cause if they are not reinstated he said there will wil be the biggest strike the wabash s it lins has ever known and we will make it ft cost the company more than it could save on nonunion non union men in a hu hundred adred years the the st loula lodges will ill I 1 also take the matter ft vic president dark clark general manager charles M hayes and general superintendent mcgee are absent from the city mr logan private secretary of mr me hayes hayea said tho the wabash road employed emp loyes both union and nonunion non union men but giefers men hohe allegiance Is to their employers and not to any brotherhood lie he said he had no official al information on the subject but does docs not anticipate trouble at wabash engineer headquarters tonight the reports of disaffection among employees of tho the ro road ad the thi threatened strike etc are arc denied |