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Show PROPOSE TO-HI WESTERN S All the Railroad Crafts W Welded Into One Vasflf1 Organization, cl " ' TBi FAR.REACHING EFMtf General Advance in Jed Will Be Demanded in vSN Short Time. Kir By International Xcws Scrvt,. CHICAGO. 1-ch. 9. The E JE Herald this morning snys thatpiiSSt the formation of a territorial a!E 1 station of railroad shop emploviJWff; will include every railroad opSHri we?t or the Mississipp, river JSP1 eocrelly perfected by hboi - offi & As goon as the orSMF9 launched demands will be y general advance , A meeting to perfect the orrXSS tiou will be held in lanag CitTliB"' i. This meeting has been csllJkP, officers of the various ipAl-.M western officials have l)ecn participate. -Kp$ The plan ia said to be the dmBil" reaching, of any that luis yet bP Railroad men were alarmed BEC they learned that shop miu'm forming federations on each sB and it was the refusal of tbR ngers to recognize such feiKKil that lc.1 to tho strike on tb IC. Central and tho Unrriman HuBt The system federations aim toMV all the mechanical trades on tliKjp roads so that concerted action JEcc taken when wage demands atTB Plan Is Comprehensive. jSbt Tho new plan of organiwuVFH ,'.o unite all the federations t'Bf when demands arc made they HE' m rule on nil railroads in the rtaBfnc ritory a I the same time, aaj IEr. strike is called it will mvoh jjKVr roads simultaneously. Since thu strike on tho IllinoiiB, tral and the Ilarnman lints waj sHp' labor leaders say they have l'ottKlsc that .Mio other rnads vrere M5v the ones in trouble bv lendjniftB r, in e ii t and hauling freight crigEfE consigned to the strikebound "iKSc; They sav they have seen thenriBfai of their plans and that the ntitKfr they strike it will he on a 'E,' They believe .that if the emM I in the mechanical department! iHjuet; the roads were called out at tltflWtb time it would he imposible ftHP railroads to find a sufficient BjJ of nonunion men In take theitjKS , That tho federation plan of flflEire za.tion is taking firm hold, t b a WHEnec say, is shown in tho fact that llBju big railroad brotherhoods ftttK j federation on the Denver i RiiQBr railroad recently. ''BE! This federation 1 n clinic lh iVfcr live engineers, firemen, bralieajBteJr (conductors, and l.hey are. all pl'idp b) stand together in tho cvMtjB either one is involved in a If or sovcral years the, biakesNt conductors havo aclod jointly, ihBkQ; belonging 11 separate orailfcii and this is said to he the iintPwl railroad history that the cigUNJp firemen have joined w;lh tn Cuj The now organization, if fjHkn mated on tho lines planned. wJpH, braco morn than 100,000 mnjmvle mechanical trades on the JjBl' who would be ready to net u in the event, of a strike. jKbr: Plan Has Been Discussed. KAXSAS CITY. -ft T'incsiran. vice pro5i(leiit0f wJMHt makTs' international union. lOHjKp. of the proposed organization "Mtotm way shopmen, said lie had NHtp1; joino time that the plan bar cussed, but that ho bad nnt ciallv notified of any actios. flML", 1, he said, had been named afVKw f tativc date for a meeting to Vk, "A gigantic organization ofjRm unions would do more 10 strikes on railroads than remedy." Mr. Ilinesniaii said. " Hach of Ihe various unioMjBj the Mississippi river has branch on each railroad. nn 'N!Bfe will send a dclcgatctoJflfiW |