The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-13
THE c. B. SO. STRIKE.
The Brotherhood of Engin-
GERS Pledge Themselves
TO SUPPORT THE STRIKERS.
Meeting of delegates in Tammapy
Hall on sunday-ResoIution
General Notes.
TO SUPPORT THE STRIKERS.
The Strike.

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Engineers, in which all local Brother
hoods were represented, was held to-
day. The Chicago, burlington & Quincy
strike, and the manner in which it i:
being conducted, were approved. The
moral and financial support of al
lodges represented was pledged. AS to
the matter of the strike of lines center
ing in Plttsburg nothing Whatever was
said, and several delegates, when
spoken to, said nothing was furth er
| from their minds.
! DENVER, COL, March 1l.-GoYernor
Adams, in conversation with the Asso-
ciated Press, tonight, regarding La;rl-
| bees letter TO President Perkins, and
| the decision of the railroad commits.
sionerS at Des Moines, yesterday, said ::
am of the opinion that the decision of
! the commissioners upon The matter of
perm lifting incompetent engineers TO
run passenger trains on the Burlingto ton
road, is right ana just, and no man WI o
has lot proven himself competent to
run locomotives should be permitted to
Jeopardize the lives of hundreds of
passengers, as we'll as the property of
the company, by being put IN charge of
train. Were my opinion asked as to
the best way to settle the present
trouble, would advise the officials of
the Burlington to accede at once to
the demands of the engineers and fire.
men, upon the basis of the wages paid
these men by other corporations, hav-
ing as extensive territory us the Bur-
ingtOn. If this is impossible, then l
heartily agree with the ideas of the Gov
ernor of Iowa, embodied in his letter to
President Perkins, advising a settlement
by arbitration Immediately.
CHICAGO, March 11.-Chief Engineer
Arthur said to an Associated Press re-
porter, that he considered the decision
of the Iowa railroad commissioners
eminently fair and impartial. He also
thought the letter of Governor LARA
bee to President Perkin~ the Bur-
lingtOn, would be comm u } " the
travelling public and the pul gen
orally. The Governor, after thor
ough investigation" said he, has
found there is something to arbitrate,
Burlington officials to the contrary
notwithstanding, and has advised the
president Ct the o. accordingly. AS
to the situation having been narrowed
down to game OF freze out continued
Arthur, 1T remains to be shown now
long the directors and stockholders Will
sustain the present bankrupt policy of
the management policy with no SUI
hcient cause. For our part, we are
confident that the Brotherhood can
stand it longer than the owners of the
road will be willing to stand it. Our
ad7ices are that but 80 per cent Of the
usual local business is being done. and
no through business. Burlington
members of the Brotherhood will be
sustained by the entire organization
just as long as the men wish or require
help, and That is certainly longer than
through freight, or fast passenger
trains. None of the Brotherhood men
have deserted" added the Chief, with
evident pride, land predict that none
OF them will" The chief then referred |
to The clause in the constitution of the |
order requiring the instant expulsion |
of any man found intoxicated and q |
notification to the road employing him |
that he was an unfit person 10 have |
charge of an engine, as well as other |
tests of character. During the past |
fourteen years, not a single Brother |
hood engineer ever deserted his engine |
without using every possible precautIOn |
to save the lives of his passengers, and |
the public well know how many have |
died at the post of duty. l attribute
this remarkable record to the fact that |
these nen must be sober, skilled, moral, |
men of nerve and principle. |
In ell this, the great public has been
benefited during the life of the organ
iZatioD. / have only to say further
that the nerve of these men has and
will be demonstrated in the % strike"
NEW York, March IA meeting
with closed doors Of delegates from diff
ferent local assemblies throughout the
United States, Of the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Eoginetr3and Firemen, was
held in Tammany Hall to-day. About
l 800 delegates, representing 10000 en-
gineers and tiremen, were present. The
situation of the Burlington road was ex-
planned by one Of the strikers and then
a resolution was adopted as follows:
"ReSOIved, That we, as law-abiding
citizens OF the United States, declare to
the railway managers who have been
secretly aiding and abetting the Bur
lington road with the view of defeating
the Just demands of its old engineers
and iremen by sending them incompe-
tent and irresponsible persons rs engi-
neers and fremen, thereby endaDgering !
public safety, that if they do not with
draw said men from the service of seid
company, we, as individuals, will use
our own discretion about remaining in
their employ after a certain date. We |
do not say to managers of certain rail-
roads connecting with the Burlington
that they shall not exchange traffic |
for being aware of the duties of COM
mon carriers we do not propose to in
terfere with the laws governing the
same, but as individuals we recommend
that each and every engineer, and fire.
man in the employ of such connecting
road or system use his own individual
judgment as to whether; It will be for
his interest to remain in the employ of
such railroads after certain date.
THE resolutions further pledge moral
and financial support to the strikers,
condemn the action of the Burlington
as mean, penurious and worthy of the
contempt of all fair minded men. 1t is
declared that the Burlington road is
positively misrepresenting its present
condition. Thanks are extended to
certain managers of railroads connect
ing with the Chicago, Burlington d