The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-16

to the Atchison, Topeka d Santa Fe
Company, and briet statement of the
facts concerning
THE RELATIONSHIP,
without comment, will probably place
the railroad company and the Brother
hood in proper light before the public:
For several years. the Brotherhood of
Engineers has been recognized ard
fostered as a legitimate and reputable
trades association by the Santa Fe Rail
road Company. Fully 80 per cent. of
the engineers employed by the company
have been for years Brotherhood engi
n3ers. From time to time, the r'pre-
Sentatives of the brotherhood nave met
with the managers of the railroad and
discussed their grievances or en'ered
into friendly consideration of matters
looking to the improvement of their
condition aud remuneration. TIE
company has done this in pursuance If
a policy which 1t believed its duty to
| the public to pursue, viz: to have
STABILITY AND EXPERIENCE
in its motive power department, in the
interest of safety to the life and prop
erty of its patrons. No just Request
which had ever been made to the COM
pany by the representatives OF the
| Brotherhood has ever been re
fused, but very recently the very
mileage schedule which Is the cause
of the quarrel between the Brotherhood
and the Chicago, Burlington 4 Quinc2
was submitted to the AtchisoH, topeka
& Santa Fee Raj; way Company, and III
| friendly conference was accepted and
put into force by the company The
Atchison, Topeka g. Santa re Railway
Company. through its proper officers
thereupOn, about February LIST, entered
into a contract with the Locomotive
Engineers and Firemen upon the Santa
| Fe & Southern Kansas system. BY this
contract large
BENEFITS AND ADVANTAGES WERE GIVEN
to this class of employees. The very
first provision of this written contract is
IN substance as follows: That no engi-
neer or fremen should be sEs-
pended or discharged upon any
charge whatever without first hav-
ing 9 fair and impartial hearing
IAC NObIAoSI oho iSSA1' A. ~
without giving the company thirty
days notice. On March Sth and 9th
CONFERENCES WERE HELD
at the request of the representatives OF
the Brotherhood with the managing
officer OF the Santa Fe, upon the subject
Of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
strike, ut which meeting the question
OF the duty of connecting roads to haul
Chicago, Burlington d Quincy freight
was discussed, and finally resulted IN
the service of notice by the representa-
tives of the Brotherhood upon The COM
papy. to the effect that after Sunday
morning, the 18th, the engineers ana
6remen would refuse to haul Chicago.
Burlington & Quincy cars. There
was no notice of the strike
OF suspension work. The grievance
committee repeatedly stated that
I 40 STRIKE WOULD BE ORDERED;
that each man would act for himself
The company assured The grievance
committee that they could not expect
that the company would act in violation
of the laws of the United States; that it
was commonly understood and it was
their belief that the act Of Congress re-
Qui: ed them to haul the freight of all
connecting lines when presented, with
out discrimination, and that they would
Law their notice before the board OF
| directors for consideration, pending
which il was presumed no action
would be taken by the engineers. Since
that time, in no instance, have any OF
the engineers, against their wish, been
asked to haul Quincy cars. At no time,
however, has The company done any
thing to visit upon it the penalties and
punishments for its disobedienCe.
a board of inquiry is established, COM
posed of the division superintendent,
| the division master mechanic and dis
interested engineers from the division
| from which complaint may arse.
who shall investigate the charged mis-
conduct, and the right of appeal is in
! all cases given from the local to the
general officers. The rights of fremen
| and engineers to act as a committee on
| conference are recognized, and leave OF
absence is granted for that purpose.
| Every item in this long contract, con-
! sisting of twenty-six articles, the
| larger part of which looked to
THE BENEFIT OF THE EMPLOYEES,
YVES carefully gone over at Chicago by
the representatives of the Brotherhood
OF Locomotive Engineers and the
vice president of.the company.
KAEsAs CITY, March I5.-The chair
man of the general grievance committee
Of tue Brotherhood Of Engineers re-
ceived telegram from Mr.. Arthur. to-
night, instrdcting him to send the Santa
Fe committee men to Chicago at once,
and intimating that the Santa Fe COM
pany was
READY TO COMPROMISE.
The chairman replied by asking if the
SO" company would yield to its
strikers demands in case the Santa Fe
strike was lifted.
The 1915 California train had not
left at midnight. and there seemed to
be small chance for Its going out to-
night.
LA JUNTA, Colorado, March Is, lib
p.m.-The engineers state that after
PM, to-day,
NO PASSENGER TRAINS