Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-11-12
RAILROAD MEETING,
Proceedings of n Convention Held I'm chat.
tanOogA, Tenn. on che eth Day OF
November, ISS3.

Proceedings of n Convention Held I'm chat
t0nOogA, Tenn on che 4th Day OF
November. 1879.
At Convention held at the Read House,
in Chattanooga, November Attn, 1873, the
following roads were represented:
Western d Atlantic Railroad
By Hon. J. E. Brown, President, and
Gen. w. McRea, Superintendent.
Louisville d Nashville, and Great Southern
and South d North alabama Railroads:
By Albert Fink, Vice-President and
General superintendent; d. w. G. Row
land, Assistant General Superintendent;
NJ. II. Smith, General Freight Agent /;
NJ. Stanton, Superintendent South d
North Alabama Railroad.
Central Railroad of Georgia
By VIM. Rogers, General Superintend-
ent; Virgil Powers, Superintendent
Southwestern and Mobile & Girard Rail-
roads; G. j. Foreacre, Superintendent
Atlanta Division.
Mobile and Montgomery Railroad
BY G. Jordan, Engineer and Superin-
tendent.
NelO Orleans, Mobile & Teras Railroad
BY S. H. Scranton, General Superin-
tendent.
Memphis q Charleston Railroad
By w. J. Ross, General Superintendent.
Georgia Railroad
BY E. w. Cole, General Superintendent.
Nashville, Chattanooga d st. Louis Rail
SeGy Line
By E. w. Cole, President; J.W. Thorn
as, Superintendent; G. w. Anderson,
General Freight Agent.
atlanta d West Point RQiLrOdd-
BY l.. p. Grant, Superintendent.
st. Louis Southeastern Roil1Ody Line
By A. L. Shrader, General Superintend-
ent.
Piedmont dir Line
BY H. Haupt, General Manager; B. Y.
Sage, Superintendent Atlanta & Rich
mond Air Line Railway.
Western Railroad Of 1ld6dHln-
By Col. Chas P. Ball, Engineer and Su-
perintendent.
Port ROVdL RulrOdd-
By w. w. Thomas, General Freight
uo5ife d. ohio Paiboad-
BY Hon. A. Murdoch, President.
AluJdmu e. Chattanooga Rdilrodd-
By a. F. Elliott, Receiver.
Selma, Rome &c Dalton RuiLrOdd-
BY John B. Peck, General Superintend-
ent.
The following resolutions were unani-
mously passed;
WHEREAS In the present financial crash
the business usually done by railroads is so
greatly diminished as to make it necessary
ReSOlUed, That we will make such rea-
sonable reductions of expenses as is made
in every other branch of business, and that
each Company make such reductions as its
own necessities require, and such as can
be made in justice to all employed. While
we regret the necessity which compels us
to reduce the wages of officers and employ
ees we find this compensation to those af-
fecied by our action: That provisions, and
almost all the necessities of life are being
reduced in full proportion to the reduction
we propose to make, so that the wages of
such officers and employees, at the re-
duced rate, will purchase as much of the
necessities of life as could have been OBJ
tanned before the crisis for the wages then
received by them.
Resolved, That while we recognize the
right of any employee of a railroad Com
pany to refuse to work for the wages offered
or to leave the service of any Company if
he is not satisfied with its rules or the dis
cipline enforced, we condemn in the strong
est terms as unjustifiable and indefensible
all combinations for the purpose of resist
ing the rightful authority and discipline of
any Company by interfering with or at
tempting to intimdate or injure others
willing TO work for the wages offered, or
to submit to the discipline and rules of the
Company And we pledge ourselves to
each other that we will in no case employ
any one who has been discharged on ac-
count of characterization to authority, or
combination to stop the operations Of any
road, by intimidation or interference with
others willing to work, and to submit. to
rules and discipline. And we will, by
printed circular, promptly inform each
other of all such insurbordinate combina-
tions with the names of those engaged.
Resolved, further, That We invite all
Railroad Companies in the United States
to cooperate with us in carrying out these
resolutions, and in suppressing Insurbordi-
nate combinations who attempt to accom-
plish their ends by violence and other
unlawful means +. w. COLE, Pres't.
JOHN b. PECK, Secretary.