Show WILL ORGANIZE INTO ONE LARGE I 1 I 1 RAILROAD UNION first move to amalgamate AH A employed Emp loyes made MELLEN FOR THE presidency felimer fel fc imer mer head of new havon haven linca may bo be head of council to all bianchet anchet Br Dra riches of roads road in now new england states state boston the first move in a campaign for P a federated council of brotherhoods Brothe which shall include first the hundreds of thousands of railway roan man of now england then the millions of operatives of the united states and canada and ultimately perhaps the workers of great britain also occurred at the quincy house here these railroad workers are split up into more than one hundred organizations nono tono of them will be asked to abandon its present brotherhood all of them are to bo be urged to join in the federation that shall give unity of interest and a power of numbers that b by y themselves they do t fiot ot the united states federation of 0 separate states amatea and the tha federation of the german states into a powerful empire are the models upon which the railway campaign Is planned the leaders of the movement are confident that when it shall be shown to be a united enterprise with the back ing of the great majority of 0 the railroad men of new england the lie former president of the now new iriven railroad charles S mellen will accept tile the presidency of the federated council the men who are planning the campaign are enthusiastic in their praise of mr mellen for his cordial and fair dealings with the employed emp loyes of the railway systems he has managed they have written him about their plan and in long replies all in his own handwriting he has referred to the way their proposal warms his blood and pulls upon his heartstrings heart strings the originator of the plan la is earl 11 morton of greenwood grand president of the PIC order of railroad station agents one of its prime promoters Is F 11 II sidney of the brotherhood of railroad signalmen Sign almen and the field officer once the movement Is ie actually under way will be harry Phil phillida liDs tor for W 1 cy 11 31 MAP XA 4 w 1 charles S mellen merly deputy mayor of west ham the east end of london where in a population of he be had wide ex per lence with the laboring class the committee on an organization and federation Is made up of W H R pratt of walpole L B Twi twitchell of east Brain braintree tree dona n B cutter of lynn AT E D B barrott barrett of brookline and william F fernald of swampscott Swamp scott all of whom are connected with the order of d station agents among those who attended the meeting nt at the quincy house were lieutenant governor harry barry who was at a meeting in february lust last and declared for federation and ex president eliot who Is B declared to have been cordially invited because lie he la Is opposed to labor organizations and with avith a purpose of showing bho wing him that lie ho Is wrong it Is a big program that has been outlined by tho leaders of the federation movement thus not sectional nor merely national but international in scope not to supersede a single present organization nor to a kingle present officer of a railway labor union not to indorse any an of the revolutionary doctrines nor to stand aland for any of 0 f the methods ethoda ro of the 1 I W W and like bodies but to avoid petty sectional strikes to lasuro insure bome security of tenure to secure for the operatives places tit ot the tables of the boards of directors who represent now the financing of the properties to demonstrate the partnership between capital and labor I 1 to secure the power that must come to a labor federation with millions of members and to use that power when necessary more in detail mr sidney indicates the split up condition of tile the railway men today by reciting a long list hat of brotherhood brothe of which many are largo large others othera not so BO large and others still small email and all falling of the effectiveness deab which bigness of numbers and unity of action might have among these bodies are the brotherhood of railroad signal men alen the brotherhood of american signal men the Brothe brotherhood rhod of station employees Empl Emp loyes baggage handlers and tile the like the brotherhood of hallway clerks the tha clerks assembly of the IC of L in fill all there are said to be a dozen organizations of clerks lit in tho the united states three divisions of tho the of Rall railroad road station agents the I 1 new england association of round house foremen pot Foi omen emen the tha new england As for maintenance of way made up of civil engineers surveyors and the he like five bodies of tiac trac kmen knien the drawbridge tenders Ten dera association the international association of car I 1 workers tile the roundhouse helpers tile the federated trades trader which in aonie cases IA 0 m 1 IN V 1 iv charles charlei W eliot have men in more than fifty occupations and organizations of boiler makers machinists blacksmiths electrical workers freight house foremen freight handlers of whom there ire are two organizations the one linked with the K of L and the other with the A F of L and the Switch mens union of north america nor Is this a u complete list hut but the list Is long enough to show the text upon which the whole appeal and argument are based each body was represented in the council by four delegates mr air mellen in his letters to mr air sidney said it Is a great scheme I 1 tear fear you lou are too enthusiastic about myself in connection with it I 1 am glad the men think me loyal and steadfast enough to lead them I 1 like to be well thought of by my old associates and he went on to intimate that possibly his association for 20 years with the capitalistic side of the railway enterprise might prejudice some against him both mr phillips and mr sidney talk enthusiastically of what mr mellen did when in the new haven management a thing said the english organizer ga nizer that he had never heard of before ile he used to meet his employed emp loyes in conference at a morning hour and hla his board of directors at an afternoon hour and discuss the same problems with both bodies just there comes in tile the suggestion for the employed emp loyes to have a representative upon the board of directors why not have hae them meet at one and the same tinie time either morning or afternoon ter noon and talk over the matters face to face asks mr air phillips in explaining how he cornea comes to be identified with this movement and fits conception lonc eption of the ends in view he ha said in england we have an amalgamation into ono one great railroad union of more than nine tenths of the railway employee emp loes loyes of the country when the men cabrit on to the isa IC ta t a they flocked to join it at the rate of a week it is not an amalgamation for strike purposes its like a nation which wants peace i in this country where there are said to be nearly fifty thousand rall rail road men out of 0 v rak rk wo adelso no not amalgamation but ft Uder atlon get ek great federation and tt it will command respect and influence now frittered fritt ered away in england when we got tile tho big even the king took notice and tho appointment of thel royal rohnl commission to conter confer with us ua and ascertain our needs and views to Is well remembered through the operation cooperation co of all pa par ri blen in fit england wo we wore were able to put funds into the enterprise which ma made f a great amount available for othere emergency c purposes for example we wore were able to support a and at one ona calp dtp we WB sent three shiploads ship loads of food w td some lomo such things may doe not como come hero here for a long time it if at all because your men have riot not really sut aut i fored os as yet hut but the trado trade unions over there withdrew their moneys front from the funds and put them into tilts this cu operative movement there are plenty of levelheaded level headed beaded and ablo able nion in the workers ranks ranka and its good business to get them rep i resented fosen ted not by men of another class with education and influence and out of philanthropic interest but by members of their own number on the boards of r alway directors I 1 would have such it a representative on the now new haven directorate tho the hoston boston mal maine a directorate the now york central directorate tho the pennsylvania and soon |