Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-25
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To Consider Notifications an tho
Ratsroad ReHief FUND.
Philadelphia Record
The firm stand staken by consider
able proportion Of the employees of the
Pennsylvania Railroad in opposition 10
the recently established Relief Depart
ment has not been without its effert on
the officers of the company, as is shown
by the following General Notice. is
sued by General Manager Pugh on Sat
urday:
Attention having been called to the fact
that considerable number OF employees
object to some OF the features vi the Relief
Fund recently established, and as that de-
partment was organized solely for the
benefit of the employees and their families,
and is therefore one In which they have q
direct personal interest outside Of the
operating organization, and as its success
depends upon the hearty cooperation OF
all parties Interested, 1t has been decided
to call a representative meeting of the EN-
ployes to afford them full opportunity to
to express their views upon ull questions
connected with rhe relief department.
Directi' ms have accordingly been given to
the division officers to request their en-
ployes to select two representatives from
each branch of the service on each division,
to meet me ut Broad street station on Tues
day. March I'd, 1885, at 10 II. M, to consult
with regard to the general features Of that
department.
1t is the desire of the company TO so frame
the regulations of the relief department as
to make them most satisfactory to the em-
ployes, and II is believed full discussion
will accomplish this result.
It Is suggested that meanwhile further
applications for membership be withheld.
By order Of the president.
CHARLES Il, PuGH, General Manager.
II is understood that this action of the
company is due to the protests received
last week from the meetingsof the various
organizations of locomotive engineers,
fireman, brakemen, conductors and other
employees held in this city. Delegations
waited upon General Manager Pugh and
Informed him that many of the men
positively refused to join the department
unless some alteration was made in some
of the regulations. They preferred to
resign rather than he coerced into the
plan. Complaint was made of the excess
siye assessments as compared with those
of the various organizations of the EN-
pluyes, and vigorous protest was entered
against the regulation which provides
thut an employed discharged from the
service of the company and not reinstated
within certain time shall lose all that
he has paid in. Other bits of apparent
injustice were pointed out, with the re
suit that Manager Pugh decided to call
the meeting the notice OF which is given
Dbove.
Meetings of the firemen were held in
Grand Army Hall, on Thirty ninth street,
and Of the Division No. 100 of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers in Han.
cock Hall, at Fortieth street and Lancas-
ter avenue yesterday, but it was given
out that no action had been taken on the
matter. The meetings of the delegates
from the different brotherhoods and
organizations will be continued in Red
Mems Hall, on Race street, above Ninth,
to day, but the sessions will be secret, as
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