Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-15
SULLIVAN TALKS.

CHICAGO, March 14-Alexander Sulli-
van, the legal adviser Of Chic Arthur, of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
gave to representative of the Chicago
Times tonight a clear, full statement as
far as can be announced in advance, as to
the policy to be pursued by the brother
hood throughout the country regarding
the Burlington strike. He said: There
will be no conspiracy entered into by the
engineers Of the brotherhood to injure the
business or the property of the @" The
injury which is being inflicted upon its
property is not the work of the brother
hood.
"Why, who is injuring its property"
1.-The incompetent eng ineers who have
taken the places of the brotherhood and
who are burning and pounding its engines
The brotherhood men have an effection
for their old comprehensive engines
They always cared well for them even at
peril of their lives They will never abuse
them. The dispute is concerning wages.
The pretense about a system of manage
ment being interfered with is mere
subterfuge The question at issue is
one of wages The men do
not care whether the Quincy pays
by the mile, or by the trip, providing it
pays them as much as other roads do for
the same service. If the trips from Aurora
to Galesburg were paid for at the same
rate paid by the Wabash, Santa Fe Rock
Island, Alton and other roads, the passen-
ger engineers would receive S4.311a in place
of 1915. The Quincy managers say, we
don't want your interference in our syS-
tenn. We prefer it to the mile rate. Very
well, say the engineers, make your rate
S43713 for an engineer, on a passenger
train from Aurora to Galesburg and
you need not say word about
YOUR blessed system. Prove that pet name
Disregard the vulgar mile plan of cOmpen-
satlon; but do not shave our wages down
as means of saving the system. We have no
objection to it, but we do not regard it rs
a luxury for which we should be taxed"
SIS it not a fact that the Quincy men
were satisfied, and that they were ordered
by secret society to demand greater pay
than they were getting? Did not Mr.. Ar
thur come here as the represent alive of
that secret society and compel the Quincy
to striker
TT is not true that the Quincy men were
satisfied. 1t is not true that they We're
ordered by secret society to strike.
The Quincy men were so dissatisfied
that of their own notion they resolved by a
tWo-thirdS vote not to work at the Quincy
wages. After they SO resolved, Mr.. Arthur
came here, visited Mr.. Stone manager of
the Quincy and endeavored to bring about
a settlement. Mr.. Arthur has no power to
order them to return to work. His duty
is to bring about settlement, if that be
possible. He has gone so far as to offer on
behalf of the men to submit the dispute to
arbi tration and to agree that all three arbi-
traitors shall be railroad managers or presi-
dents The Quincy road refuses arbitration.
The conference of the engineers are nomore
secret than those of the directors of the
Quincy road. Each body meets in private
and determines its course. Neither body
holds it's meetings in public halls in the
presence of the other or in the presence of
the representatives of the press. What
bosh it is to speak of one as a secret body
and the other as a public one. 1t is not
only their right, it is the duty Of the en-
gineers and firemen to keep their own
counsel and to admit no outsiders to their
confidence. All prudent business men
pursue this course