St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-09
BROTHERHOOD RESOLUTIONS
Yesterdays Action by New York
Engineers and Firemen.


New YORK. April S.-Members of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
and Locomotive Firemen, to the mum.
Der of 800, met at Tamany hall to-day
and again discussed and resolved abom
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
strike. j. j. Hanahan, vice grand mas
ter of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen, and Joseph Porter, of the Chi.
cago, Burlington Il Quincy, addressed
the meeting and told what they had
seen and heard on recent trip over the
Chicago, Burlington IL Quincy system
from Chicago to Denver. Mr.. Porter
denounced what he termed "the wanton
destruction of life and property and
damage to the business interests which
have occurred since the beginning of
the Q strike" lie laid the blame for
this destruction and damage upon the
management of the road and declared
that the resulting loss already amounted
to millions of dollars. Among other
things he declared that already 157 en-
gineS had been disabled through the in
capability of the 'scab" engineers. And
it was not true that the road was now
doing 80 per cent of its usual business.
The Chicago newspapers suppressed
the facts of the case and only published
In the towns along the line of the q the
papers were controlled by the Q man
agement, which exercised careful CEN
sOrship over all strike news. Remarks
were also made by leading members OF
Eastern divisions of the brotherhOods
of engineers and firemen, of which
% and % were respectively represented.
The meeting unanimously adopted these
resolutions:
Resolved, First, that the action of the
Chicago strikers-acts of violence ex-
cepted-are hereby indorsed and ap-
proved. and that it is the opinion of the
delegates here assembled that if the
suggestions contained in the resolutions
passed in this hall on March 4 had been
carried out as advised, the strike would
have been settled in less than three
days after said propositions were de-
clared to the parties concerned.
Second-That our pledge of financial
and moral support to our striking
brothers of the Chicago, Burlington 70
Quincy railway is hereby renewed and
will be continued as long as necessary.
Thyrd-That, although our brothers in
theWest may not succeeded III obtaining
all they desired, we consider the prin-
ciple involved worth thousand times
more to us than it has or will cost the
brotherhood.
Fourth-That the fight on the Q sys-
TEN has not in the slightest degree i'm
paired the power and usefulness of the
brotherhood, and that to-day they are
stronger and better prepared to MAIN
tain their positions than ever before.
Fifth-That we favor conservatism,
when it is adequate to the ends in view,
but when dealing with radiealism and
aggression we do not feel bound TO be
more conservative than our opponents.
Sixth-That the reports that our
grand chief would advise the Brother
hood of Local Engineers to disband and
that he would tender his resignation il
he failed to gain victory on the q, is
hereby denounced as false and without
foundation.
Seventh-That the egotistical, con-
ceited and mugwumpian utterances OF
the chief secretary of the Order of Rail-
way Conductors regarding the Brother
hood of Local Engineers does not eX-
press the sentiments of the majority Of
railway conductors towards our Organi-
ZatOn and that his statement that most
of the conductors were competent en-
gineers is well known to be absolutely
false and idiotic.
Eighth-That the twin brotherhoods
of engineers and firemen will be
honOred throughout the land long after
the names of its present enemies shall
cease to be mentioned-eXcept as re-
pTOach.