The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-10-15

A special telegram 10 Chicsgo from New
York reads a follows:
There are indications Of another serious
misunderstanding besween the trunk lines
and their employees. unless wages sre soon
advanced. When the general reduction
went into effect, over year .so. the officers
Of the road promised to restore the old
wages ~ sOon A. the business Of the road
would warrant IN increase. The employee
claim that the increased carrying trade cre.
ated By the movement Of fall CT p east
ward j"sti6es the eompanies in rrssosing
wages, and the men proposs IL poasible. to
bring about the desired end At once. The
following advertisement wsa prominently
displayed in a,osning paper:
Employea az each division Of the Erie,
Lake Shore, Harlem. Central and Hud.on
River railroad. will sena one delegate to
convention at Buffalo. New York, Octoher
10. to adopt measure. Z" peace.bly. If pos.
si'ly, obtain the Increased wss~s psoa,ised.
Address Broeseli House, Buffalo, New
York.
whe" questioned, the employees Of oil
there lines we're very rrsicen,, prefrrrinx to
keep their business IN themselves. II was
learned that the meeting war tn be held by
the Brakemsn's Union, aud followed cluae
upon il will come the annual c,nven,i n Of
the Brotherhood If Lncomotive E .xineers
nj Cincinnati on the 10Th inst. The Brake
nenis Union is numerically very strong,
including most of the br.kenssn IL the
country. besisles nearly . thou..csi loc0-
motive engineers aud many Thousand track
men and workmrn in the sholx. Il origi.
natei in the railroad ssr,kss . year ago,
and at the time Overe~timatssi = strength.
I. In aid its leaders arr emf lent Of their
ability to bring the c"mpsnies To
,srms this year. A veteran engineer On
the Erie road said that the Ruf
fslo Convention would very prob
ably create ir"uhle On the roads men,i"nsd
in the call. Many memben. Of the broth
erhoOd we're found, but they rrfU-ed to
talk. They are bound under pen lily 81
violent death not to disclue the secret If
the union, and to c rry on. the order of the
leaders. There have been rec~lcitrsnis
among them. and there have been mys,eri-
Qua di.appearances. too." said . railroad
c@ci.l to-day. II know of ivo instances
myself where brakemen. suppnsrd to be un-
faithful to the union. have fallen from
moving trains in the night-fal'en in such
. manner that they must have been helped
oG Soon after the strike last su'nmer =
dosen brakemen ON Western roads dissp-
peared very suddenly and have never been
heard Of. II n an easy matter to push .
man down between the cara ON . moving
tram. No one .ees him fall, Of course. IL
is sure death, and no quea,;ons asked. ''Ths
Bsskemen's Union." said he. els the
strongest in the West It, members are on
nearly every railroad in OHIO. Indiana aud
Illinois. There are only few u,rohers on
the Erie Road east Of Hornellsvi.le. The
Unio" has a strong membership on the
New York Central Road, and on the Lake
Shore. There is lodge At Hornellsville,
aud the trouble On the Erie Last snmmer
Vas started there by iis member" II 70
denied BY officers Of the Brotherhood Of Lo-
comosivs engineer that the meeting Of
their general committee at Suaquehanns
Last week bore any relation to the step
which the other union propnses to take.