, 1885-02-08
IHE OTHER Side
Why the Union Pacific Men Think
They are Harsh.
No Impositions Intended and {
Strike Not Expected.


trip over the Union Pacific road, made
with the purpose of examining the men
in the new rules and regulations and OBJ
tanning their signatures to ne rolls of ex-
animation.
The men showed no disposition to rebel
at the rules and nearly all Of them signed
the agreements, The first intimation the
examiners obtained Of any trouble was
from Denver papers and The LEADER.
Yesterday, however, they learned hat the
men were organizing a resistance Of the
rules and that dissatisfaction was quite
general.
During the day a number Of engineers
called upon Supt. Deuel. and presented
their side ofthe issue. Mr.. Deuel. ex-
planned the meaning and practical effect
of the obnoxious rules and when the men
departed they seemed to be satisfied. In
conversation with areporter of The LEAD
ER last evening Nh. deuel. said that in
his opinion the excitement was caused by
a misapprehension of the object of the
new rules. For a number Of years a code
Of regulations has been theoretically in
force, but hundreds of the employees have
been more or less ignorant of them. The
system of examination now introduced has
caused the employees to study the rules
and they discover that some Of the
requirements appear to be unjust.
''0ne Of the rules the men particularly
object to is rule II. 1t is word for word
ike rule l0l. which has been in force on
the road for years. The rules referring
to the Withholding of the pay of the men
are about the same as those in force on
all Of the roads in the country. 1t is the
intention to hold the men responsible for
property they may w%ilfully, maliciously
or through inexcusable carelessness dam
age or destroy. These rules are exactly
like the old ones. with the exception that
the old rules used the words personally
responsible, and the new ones employ
the term legally responsible" Mr..
Corlett and other leading attorneys are
authority for the statement that the form
er expression is the more binding and
.wesn;Dg
The whole trouble seems ~ be that the
men imagine n ";ob ia being nut mn on
them y tn rules ara no moro h;nd;no
han The ala ones but the ex.m;nat;on Il
an ;nnovat;on II has drawn the a,ten.
| t;on of tbe mon n The rnles thew have
read tbam carefuIlv and thew have heen
led 10 believe there was some hidden
meaning some concealed weanon that
threatened to work a hardship o
| them.
There is no intention of taking a mans
p~ropertv or Of robbinr him in anv wav.
If engineers and conductors forget their
orders run into a train and cause a dam
ace Of Thousands ofdollars. the road will be
Obliged to foot the bill. but the pay of the
men NAV be- stopned. They NAV. through
carelesspess. XIII a dozen people and the
road NAV be obliged to nav hundreds of
tbouaa,.d dollars damages. As the EN-.
ployes are paid every thirty DAYS, the
extent Of their financial responsibility in
a ase Of this kind is really insignificant.
So far as the matter Of residence is
concerned. it is not the intention to i'm
noae on the men. Take for examine the
trouble the road daily has between Ster-
ling and Denver. Extra trains generally
come fmm the east If it is desired to
sent ont a train from Denver the crews
cannot be found. The city is large and
their whereabouts can not often be dis
covered for hours. Eyervs extra train
costs tho road an additional expense Of
sIso whereas If some of these men lived
in Sterling the trains could be nronerlv
handled. The meaning of the mle re-
oardine residence is merely that the road
NAV elect At which end of a division the
crews shah live.
The road has had one of the poorest
code Of signals in the country. The new
system is adapted and compiled from
those codes which have beep found most
effective 10 tbe end that l;ss and pronertv
NAV he safer So lonr as railroads ex;st
accidents will hammer lint 4 il the desire
Of The road 10 have its niles 50 svstem.
s,;,od and ;,s e,onloves 90 e@c;snt Tho,
accidents viii he less liable 10 occur than
under = ban-bazard. 40 as.vou-nlease nIan
7 do NOT mean that the road has beep
carelesslv conducted hut 7 do mean that
h-h H. suu,, oe o~aa.;n.,;o, - mn
WORK for the comnanv who does not mn
stand the rules. and who is unable to fol.
low heir directions.
There il no disposition to impose on