New-York tribune., 1886-01-06

| thought that the Colonel might one of his
Hoases on us, and we have been quite as as
hreinen and he will find he won't corporas
| guard lett with him when our turns come"
An excited engineer came rushing in about p. m
lie had been trying 10 ind out how many signatures the
second Avenue division % signed it," he said. "and
~ received two signatures fronl Nnth-sve engineers
We will call IL square"
The committee explained that the demand that 365
days on an engine should be called year was because
tne company would let man run an engine r;0H some
GeneraManager Hahn said last evening: There will be
STRIKE suppose. although know less about that than
many other persons. or one thing AIN sure-that the
The conference between Mr. Arthur and myselwil take
place at III o'clock Tomorrow and purpose, II possible
be able to whether there Will be strike 1t is hard
" proper for me to say anything about the
overcome all difficulties i'll short time | have had
others will be coming in rs soon as it is generally known
that engineers have left The safety Of the pub
strive to accommodate the travel to the fullest possible
extent consistent with safety Beyond that prefer TO
| the threatened strike on our roads for uSa our
other railroads throughout the country cutting
down wages from 10 to 20 per cent our company PAID
the full and the schedule of wages made by Gen
era wnsow in 1880 has been maintained ever since.
Tue men are paid better Ihan those doing similar WORK
work about nine and the average pay $l05 month
Sometimes certain engineers have to work over ten
hours DAY out thoy soon come 10 an easy tour y. u
when the hours are much shorter III Is aquesuou
with me- whether this threatened strike on our roads Is
not intended to help some other labor movement.
Robert NJ Gaaway president OF the Manhattan kall-
strike When the engineers consider their position be.
lieve they will hesitate In quitting work and some sort
given by the engineers unless their demands were
complied with they would.strike compols us 70 take
will try best to take care of the public and ourselves
Ii would not De wise or me 10 SAY al! tnng hpoI tnu
meeting any trouble one thihe is certain; the uehhus
prepared ny tne men VIII NOT Ds couple, Will ~ us
that Is, some OF them Certainly the document AS
whole Will not he accepted Take one denaf d. ha .ne
engineers shall not be held up to schedule tno III ogs
will never agree to that Our present rule Is To- dis
the engineers who not make their time That
is the only method by which safety of passengers
be Then they want MS to permit committee
of their organization TO say whether or not we can ds
charge engineers to exercise sort OF veto over our
power OF dismissal. We don't propose To surrender tue
| running of our road to any union. . ,,.
After ALL, continued Mr. Gsiiaway, tne dehanas
amount to claim for eight hours labor day That we
cannot agree Compared with the engineers on the
surface railroads men have good pay and an ensy
situation Every gets home each day or night ac-
sce do NOT OF sst on the
than three days the week Then DO not have
have snowjfts in,o their engines are lighter
they clean aud they have no
or switches 10 look aer-only their stations Ihey en
on an average - 90 day, ana mat Is pretty go91 N
ha ITr Ie OF hs OF
conservative OF good judgment, and when he looks
into the matter feel satisfied that he Will throw his In:
iuence on the side OF a settlement. What 1t will he
say but believe that there will be some arrange
| ment which will render strike necessary"
Russell Sage said after the meeting Of the executive
committees: The committee did nothing about the strike
pany will make any concessions because 1t did the
engineers might want to work only six hours or ionr
mand the property for their own use. fOr one, am
s IN there e a excuse s for % our en-
well paid and their wages have not been low
cred. Their advantages over their fellows on the sur
face railroads very great Tor most OF them are at
houe every night Ihero Is no reason ~ al IN the,r
complaints; Why. We have borrowed money 10 pay our
and axes and yet we paid the engineers without
ODto asking them 70 take lower waees. Ihey nave no
reason TO nd auit with our treatment OF the ~ tneS @
wish 70 stike nho9r suon crGuPsauoos % ~ vy & H nm % nnt
Two pfncPaI Hnes ann We nhNo eHvgI nrn wiz ato
qy' % ~. !" us sSe ~ 10 i sIiH nm U n nS ~, r - @ sai
- Wfe.pIes master VI lc 20 Io.s ,aii ''o ~ ~
the afternoon; really cam say now We stahu @ as 80 70
yass YET but is certain can tho Third
ana , mes WIZ" , VIVA, me- ne.i We ", % s a.,
noW nso ,n Lno muuo VI ,io ,aS, mn .n T ,ha
trah viii be at fhc co,n,nISson Sours TIe DELAYS
U'yo Iii 1, I gur ~ ar i've daDs tor hv that ,ne We viii
VIII iast onlS ior ON M OF e w. uas ior oS r s az o~ @
good engineers TO be had within radius of 100 miles
the paid en in tue coqniry for the work they DO
an1 were foolish TO sur up ms row sn9ce the qneoh auction
lions for en-. neers places from competent men The
only thing oar men demand Is decrease OF I9Hrs as
ngd sg c class no" hat more D nand M ra.oDae man 0,ET
In tie evening there "a large union meeting
OF Gineers, hrenen aud hO,tlcrs IN MieIs Hall, at
Tbr.ave and Elghty- ST. tue doors were opened
early ana the hail began 10 Nil up. There
600 present all employees OF the elevated roads ana
they h'd 10 use the PASSWORD OF ther oruer ~ W.
spies 10 the meeting. When Grand Chief Engineer
Arthur entered ths hall the cheers were deacnE anu
as ~ s1'J ts loud and ibostepons esnecialy when
the engineers passing trains blew three whistles the
Brotherhood salute as thcy ran past lhe Dhldng. mf
e cnp,reers co "mittee Ic sad tat he had rot in
et I'M mi lac a.y Mr. al