The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-09-04

chairman of the national executive
committee of that order aud Freder-
lex Turner, secretary of the lat
ter body, held two conferences
with General Manager Talmage. of the
Wabash road, thisa iternoon the with a
view to fiual settlement of the differ
ences and troubles between the organ
ization aud the road. Mr.. Talmage
furnishes the associated press with
the following statement MS embodyiug
all the main points of the conference,
and rs representing his side of the
conference. al had very full aud
friendly discussion OF matters with
Messrs. Powderly aud Turner. |
showed them there had been no dis.
elimination against the knights o
Labor. Both Mcssrs. Barnes and
Martin stated that when they were
ready to open the shops on the 9Th
of June, which was ten days after
their closing, they sent word to 80
per cent. of the men who had formerly
been IN the employ Of the company,
that they were gong to open ON said
day aud would like to have them
come back and go TO work. Of course
they could not find employment for
all OF them, rs there was more force
than their pay roll allowance would
admit of. These men did not see III
TO capt of thia, because they were
not all invited TO come back, aud,
therefore, Mcssrs. Martin and Barnes
had to employ other men. But
|. lind upon looking the over payroll
for August, 1888, that II had on the
Goth of thai months, out of n total OF
2,49S In the service OF the company
1891 were in our serv ce before the
shops closed on June l6. This applies
to shop men only aud does not in-
clude engineers aud iiremcn, aud
shows that over two-thirds of the
men now in the service in these de-
partments were old employees, and
there hss been no lookout or discriin-
ination on my part or other officers
of the company. ! proposed TO the
chairman to-day that | would employ
these men they desired me to employ
rs rapidly rs business and earnings
would Justify me in taking them III
the following ORDER
/. Men who have families aud homes
of their own at points where they
have been working.
= Men residing at points wher,
they are employed, but who do moi
own homes
8. Young men who have no families
aud married men whose fair'lcs du
not live where they have been at worl
and who are known rs foaiing ma
chinists aud mechanics.
| h... f.r.su IL hT& IaEa lhnn N
was in Juuc. This shows we could
not have given employment TO s'
who asked Tor work.
The conference continued more thai
AN hour and al the points of ditlerenc
were dis used. After receiving Col
onel ralmage's proposition, Powdcrl,
aud Turner returned 10 the Planter
House aud held n conference with tn
Wabash committee which resulted Il
the rejection of the proposition q
Colonel Talmage. Another confer
cnce will be helu nj the Wabash Ollie
Tomorrow, ut which Thomas Tut
one of the receivers of the Wabas
road, viii be present, and at whic
formally demand the wfihdraWi
of what is called the lock
out order OF June i
the reinstatement of the men aud IL
return to the agreement of April 25tl
under which IA reduction OF the e'
. pcnscs of the road can be accon
plished in three ways, the chairina
of the distric committee to have u
choice of these ways:
l. The reduction of the men Ell
ploycd.
2. Reduce hours OF work.
: 3. An entire suspension of ever
( thing except running, repairs aud j
: spection.
I What the result of this will be !
# one can foretcll, but certainly d
i difficulty is not yet settled. NJ
o Pow DERBY will leave here to-morro
$ for the southwest. but he denies I'll
g he goes there TO take part ~ q
d Texas strike, and says the strike
o there have asked for no aid fro
% him.