Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-25
CONSPIRATORS OUSTED.
RINGLEADERS OF THE POSTAL
CLERKS FEEL THE AK.

rho DismissaIs 81 in Number Other
Dupes on the List, but DecapitatiOn
Not to Follow Their Folly--The Men
Removed All Guilty of Previous short
cOminGs,
WASHINGTON, June 24.-The following
special notice was to-day issued by the
General superintendent of the railway
mail service.
BY order of the Postmaster General the
clerks named below have been removed from
the service for insub0rdinatiOn iu conspiring
10 Obstruet the regulation of the service by
the department and 10 injure its efficiency.
They have secretly attempted to form an as
socIGtiOn with view 10 dictate action to the
department, and many OF them have also been
guilty OF deception toward their fellow
clerks by representing the purposes of such
association to be merely benevolent and thus
entanglIng them.
Al the same Time the Postmaster General
directs me to express his qualification that so
few, comparatively, could be found to engage
in such scheme, and his ackn0w edgments
to those who have kept the department in
formed.
81 ON THE LIST.
A list of q clerks in the railway mail
service is appended, ali of them being To-
Gated west OF Pittsburg, north of the Ohio
river ana east of Omaha. A majority of
them are in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
The Postmaster General, IN further eX-
PLANTATION OF the causes which resulted in
the issuance OF this notice, in an inter-
view this afternoon, said: ''SeVeral weeks
ago information was received by the de-
partment that a few postal clerks, who
we're apparently conscious that there
were reasons for their removal from the
service, were endeavoriDg TO enlist the
cooperation of postal clerks generally in
fr,h hsaf aad for hA
pose of interposing their opinion on Ques-
tOns Of removals by threatening a strike
or the combined resignation of many
clerks at one time, so as to menace the
department with embarrassment,
GENERAL COOPERATION LACKING.
''The attempt to enlist general co-Opera-
ton failed, the greater number of postal
clerks who were approached on the SUBJ
ject refusing to entertain it. 1t was the
plan of The Originators after the initia-
tiOE OF q member, during which he was
bound by an oath to secrecy and 0bedi-
ence, to secure his resignation in blank
and to have all designations in the hands
OF the executive committee, to be filed ST.
multaneOusly, and to require clerks who
were members of the association to aban-
don their run at a time to be fixed. Their
object was to maintain their own position
and tenure Of office. The department has
waited until the principal ringleaders and
executive officers were certainly known,
and those removed embrace all those who
have been specially active"
ATTITUDE OF THE DEPARTMENT.
SIN point of fact" continued the Post
master General, ''the scheme never Sc
cured general favor, and the department
is not desirOus of Furnishing by removal
those who have been cheated into nominal
cooperation, but does not wait for res1g-
nations from any who have been active in
the enterprise"
cit is a curious commentary on the folly
OF men," said the speaker, 'that upon ex-
amiDing the files in the cases of the men
VINO are removed by this order it appears
that very many OF them have been CON-
planned against for some reason
aud their removals sought before,
but the department had refused
TO make removals and entry
had been made in their cases for their re-
tention. Their position would have been
quite secure had they not forfeited it by
InsubordinatiOn. The headquarters OF
the movement has been in Indianapolis,
Ind. Some little effort was made to or
ganize at Chicago and other places, but
with no success. do not anticipate the
least trouble OF inconvenience to the busi-
ness interests of tue country" concluded
the Postmaster General, sin consequence
Of these removals."