, 1874-02-21

The LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS
Iho various lodges Of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers have elected their dcto-
eate8 70 tie Convention to DO held ut Cleve1and
rep. 70, and most OF them have been instrucre]
10 vote for strlko on such roads as have re-
ouced the wages OF engineers, and they have also
peen Instructed to vote for another u1au than
Charies Wilson for Grand Chief Engineer Of the
brotherhood. Tho feeling Of the locomotive
engiueers againat Grand Chief Wilson 1s intense
On account OF his instability and unthrustwor-
thineBs. Tho Grand Chief knows thia to ha n
lact, and therefore he trenables md writes
letters to the press advocating o1ie side of the
question, and to the engineers advocating an-
other.
TIE grand CHIEFS LAST,
lis latest pronunciamento is directed to tho
delegates to the Convention, and reads as tol-
lows
most not the most important session that was ever
held aud 1t becomes each md oyery Division to care-
consider the ground to be taken. for upon it
the 1utdre OF our organization and be prepared
Ill such manner as shall beat guarantee future
prosperity. is not personal question, but QueB-
lion OF principle. It Ia not It is nneasures Too
much hns been accomplished in the ten years that
nave paased TOO many have becu benefited, aud nro
daily being benefited too many widows and orphans
nAso mad reason 70 look to tho organization for tie
cans to procure the necessares Of ifc to permit us
to think for moment Of taking any sction that shal
bound US together with much OF lore aud sympathy
Come then, prepared to look matters equarely in the
face lay bare Ill fAcs not in passion but calmly aud
with determination to do right; to listen to
reason, to judge Of things as they arc, not az we
wish them to be; and look ut and effects and
after making your investigation, to do what your co.,
science tells YOU right without uny mars fear or
fnvor before your eyes. III this way, and no other
can your special session oe Of profit. Many Us
already the dOwn.hiu Gido Of Hfe aud but few
years. Of railroad service before becomes
Us all tho more tos live end act to prove to those
Lfei short, too brief and affords too few oppor-
tunties for doing good to allow any to 90 to waste;
aud opportunity has presented itec the history
OF the q. OF L. T. in which 1t necessary to combine
Wisdom, Truth, Justice, and Ftarlesancss tho
present for, rest assured, II you permit the DEATH
kne Of this Organization 10 be sounded it will be worae
than uselcss it would be oolishness to talk Of foruc
another. Then who will care for your wilow1 and
fatheEle6s7 Who will restrain the weak and erring
dissention weakness II We have ene1nies-and who
can doubt hut that We have BONE within, and some
rather let not be discouraged by failure, hut
grid up our lons anew, and try again. " One swallow
docs not maize summer, one frost winter" Le.
Us not DO disheartencd, then, wo have made mis-
takes they be rectned aud we c.. profit By the
lesson taught and lend aid in Inrpeuatiug Or
gauization whose benefits arc OF may Ee, of yaluo
that is incalcuiable. Once mOre then, cay come,
determined to seek not the good Of the other
but the creates. good to the grcatest number seeking
then, and then only will your counsels be productive
Of good, and harmony, aud good feeling be restored
a1u the organization Onca mora ba what its nE1ne ndf
catcR-a baud Of brothers.
aTnIKE DOUBTFUL.
There is son1o doubt whether the dclegntes
will venture on strike ut this time, mud action
may, therefore, be deferred for the present
until such Lime as the railroads can be taken
But one thing is certain, that Chief
Engineer Wilson will be deposed, aud some man
more in favor Of strike will be elected to fill
;hc Office. The First Graud Assistant Engineer, |
Z. b. Greene, is candidate TOR the Office, and |
3 out in d card to the delegates donouncipg |
3hief-Engincer Wilson IS M enemy OF tho |
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