Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-15
THE s. P. TROUBLE.
MIR. Moulthrop Says IL is satisfac
tOrily Settled.


torily settled.
Mr.. Edward E. Moulthrop, promi
nent member OF Division 1877, Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, passed
through the city yesterday, en- route from
San Francisco to his headquarters at San
Antonio Texas. Mr.. Moulthrop is 9
member of the Grievance Committee
summoned by Chief Arthur to confer
with the Southern Pacific officials regard
ing the trouble on the Atlantic system oi
the company. A HERALD scribe had the
good fortune to meet him yesterday after
noon, and on requesting the pleasure ol
an interview met with laughing response
from Mr.. Moulthropof "I had hard work
lodging the newspaper men in San
Francisco and congratulated myself that
l had got clear away, but here l am
rounded up at last and l suppose
l will have to surrender. don't
think that can tell you anything ii
very great importance though as the
outcome of our conference has already
been placed in the hands Of the reading
public through the medium OF the As
sociated Press, suppose you know
that the conference was summoned to
settle grievances on the Atlantic system
of the Southern Pacific, that is--on the
road between Ell Paso and New Orleans.
The trouble was what l may term the
arbitrary usage of the engineers and fire.
men by Master Mechanic Ryan, and
complaints having been lodged at the
headquarters of the Brotherhood con-
ference was summoned by Chief Arthur.
We met at San Francisco last week, the
different divisions OF the brotherhood OF
the Southern Pacific system from Ogden
to New Orleans being repre-
sented on the part Of the complainants,
while the company turned out strong
with Vice. Presidents A. M. Towne and
Colonel Fred Crocker and Attorney
Stephen T. Gage. l cannot tell you the
names of all of the railroad delegates,
but those of the Atlantic system, where
the trouble directly occurred, were En-
gineers j. L. Cunningham, of New
Orleans; S. B. Pettis, OF Houston; A.
M. Hillyard and myself, of San Antonio,
and Firemen M. II. Brown, of New Or
leans; II. M. Moody, of Houston, and
r. d. Wallace, of San Antonio. l am
not at liberty to tell you what transpired
during the conference, but this much
'C6u Guy t1OOOACo AdNO UCOA oCUtICO
to the entire satisfaction of the men, and
no more trouble is anticipated. We
received the most ample assur-
ances on the part Of the company
who certainly did all that could be ex-
pected. Master Mechanic Ryan will
probably continue in Office, but that we
are not opposed to now that his plan of
operations has been changed. Nothing
more that 1 could say would throw
further light on the subject" said Mr..
Moulthroy, "but as you wind up your
article wish you would give the press a
little advice about declaring strikes in
future. The San Francisco papers, when
they heard of the trouble, printed article
after article ON the impending strike
on the Southern Pacific. Now as a mat
ter of fact we made no announcement of
or even limited at the probability Of a
strike, nor do 1 think that any such cal.
amity was anticipated by the Brother
hood from the FIRST
Mr.. Moulthrop, accompanied by other
members of the general committee, left
the city on the Atlantic express last
night"