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Show DICKENSONJS FIRM. The Union Paoifio Magnate Will Not Depart De-part From the Position He Has Taken. CHANGE IN THE AUDITOR'S OFFICE Sioux City Changes New Postal 0ar3 Another Black Eye for Denver Notes, General Manager Dickenson of . the Union Pacific will reply to the conductors' conduct-ors' ultimatum in writing. He says there is no excuse for another week of verbal arguments. "I know where they stand," says Mr. Dickenson. "They know where I stand. Because Mr. Resseguio saw fit to grant his men everything they wanted is no reason why I should do tho same thing. There is a vast difference differ-ence between the physical conditions of his division and mine. Train crews out there ought' to receive more pay than on tho Missoifri river division. My '" fellows would not exchange places with them for considerably more pay. Judging from the report of an interview with one of them' they think I am not inclined in-clined to treat them fairly. Their main object is to get more pay. Well, I can't see wherein they arc entitled to it. If some higher authority wishes to increase our operating expenses 44 per cent, all right; I don't feel justified in doing it. "They want the schedule on branch lines revised raising conductors from $00 to $100 and brakemcn from $00 and $05 to $75. That I am very strongly opposed to. The Burlington, Missouri Pacific and Elkhorn pay their branch line men as low as $00 for conductors and $1! for brakemcn. On their main lines conductors get only $100 and mileage mile-age is not taken Uto consideration. "In my opinion it was a mistake to uudertako a settlement of the difficulty in a general meeting. Four or five general gen-eral managers and division superintendents superin-tendents arc just as liable to disagree as a like number of conductors. Ono man could have done tho business much easier. I believe, however, that we will get through with it all right and reach a satisfactory conclusion." Mr. Dickenson has always been regarded re-garded by tho trainmen and other employes em-ployes as the best friend they had on tho system, and as he is a cool, longheaded long-headed man ho must bo justified in taking his present position. |