The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-09
POSITION OF THE NON-UNION MEN.

TO EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
Now that tho fog has lifted from the recent en-.
gineers strike on the Boston and Name Railroad Will
you be kind enough allow the privilege, through
tho HERALD, OF reiuting the calumnies hcaped upon
nonunon locomotive engineers by the Grand Chief Of
the Locomotive Brotherhood9 There are hundreds OF
free engineers and thor ranks swelling every day.
Tho pronounced successful manner In which tho Bos-
ton aud Maine road has been run by non-socety en-
rinccrs Is an phatic rcuiaton Of The SANDERS put
upon them The defeated strikers belonging to tho
Engineers Brotherhood, who claim that their watch
words are Truth soorey and Morality must DC saay
from the Boston Herald OF late date II tells lis own
story
A. the time OF the outbreak the the
and Name road large number engineers and hremen
II various parts q the counir who we're not WITH
being employed Ill the Situations that Ind been
Svs Of the 'n Bsrahernood many
they succeeded by promises Of paying them the same
hsm pay for esrain time IL naasag .as% ,,o 70
ali parts Of the country and IN many good
win the Expectation q oe.isrny .lsmsslys. here
the brotherhood and in their lot with them What
PROMISE which is in the possession Of one Of the
BHor"xnnoop s or p1ys,Ss NO
BosTos. Mass, Feb H. 1917
that $40 s9iI Rssvssa he sa no s s,ne
situation and agree TO take him into ns nrG;sea0od
February 10, cash $40.
Instead fulfilling this agreement these menwho. y Is
said number OohAve been paid only rom $o to S2o
apiece and some OF them have not received anything
promised day day that they should
have their pay, but the promises have not been kept
The foregoing exposes the truc inwardness or the
situation AT public meeting in Faneuil Hail. Bos
ton, on the evening Of February H. 1871 tue Grand
Chief Engineers Union declared hat the sole aim
OF his guild Is build better class Of engineers,
coerce railroad companies W strikes. lie
also that the n0n-un:on engineers employed
by the Boston aud Maine road wcro drunkards ana
thieves $50 reported in the New YORK HERALD Of
February AZ and intimaed that all engineers outside
But here we the offer made by tho Grand
Cnle the highest authority IN the fraternity,
OF brides induce the same men whom he called
buthmcrs and thieves enter tho charmed circle OF
his declining budozng organization Tho public and
railroad managers readily SEQ whether the desire
railroad companies by strikes This IS pretty picture
to look aI On 18th of February the warlike
Grand Chief publicly denouncng non union engineers
drunkArds ana thieves and the lith OF February
the lamD-ltke Grand Chief begging buying
and trying 10 scduce the same men into JOIN
ing the almost played out brotherhood in tho
hope thereby oil beating the Boston aud
Name Railroad. Events occurring since tho 18th
February prove that the institution is Vulnerable
affair and that the day for browbcating DonBrothcr-
hood engineers and u-dozng railroad companies has
gone by. Non-union EN- 'neers never run away and
leave their trains and IN and other
places They always take the people through 10 their
destination The State OF Now Jersey has made good
law the projection Of men who may desire To work
a strike and TO prevent the abandonment OF
trains by engineers before reaching their destination
The press would be doing the public and railroad men
generally good service by urging tho Legislature OF
Arala I, 1877. NON-UNIoN ENGINEERS.