Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-13
THEY CAME TO KICK.
Some of the Demands to be Made by
the General Grievance Committee.
SOME MEMBERS NOT HERE YET.
What Local Leaders of Think Of Mr.. Pow
derly's Address.
THE DAYS DRIFT IN LABOR CIRCLES

The business of the General Grievance
Committee of the Pennsylvania system west
of Pittsburg, finally came into the posses
sion of a DISPATCH reporter last night.
The committee is here for the purpose of
formulating q petition to the officials, ask
for an adjustment of wages and containing
a list of grievances against certain officials.
To be more explicit the men have petit
tion to present asking that days work on
all divisions shall be certain number of
hours. On some divisions at present a
mans overtime begins after he has been out
nine hours. On run like the one between
Pittsburg and Alliance this would be the
case. On other runs, such as from Alliance
to Crestline, Crestline to Ft. Wayne or Ft.
Wayne to Chicago, the time is extended.
The farther West the longer the runs. On
some of the divisions a man is out IA hours
before his overtime begins. One of the de-
mands to be made is that the hours shall be
uniform.
COMPLAINTS AGAINST OFFICIALS.
There are other matters pertaining to the
wages question upon which the committee
number of grievances to be presented against
a number of the yardmasters, train,dipatchers
and division superintendents. The nature of
these grievances is yet secret, but they will
all be laid before the general officers before the
end of the week.
The committee has not been able to get down
to solid business yet, owing to the failure OF
about Is of its members to get here. There
was mistake in the notices sent out calling
the committee together. The dates were
I-..z e~rx kloA A1,a nnf1 1n0
called for yesterday and others that 1t would
be held to-day However. the division COM
mittees all had meetings and talked over the
work before them. This will be an advantage
to the general committee, as everybody Will
know about what is to be done and the Work
will be completed more rapidly:
A call was made at the office Of General
Superintendent Watts, of the Northwest sys.
TEN, but he was not in Mr.. W ebster, his chief
clerk, said they had not yet received any Of
fetal notification of their Grievance Committee
being in the city and he did not think they
were here as he knew of no dissatisfaction
along their line. A call was also made at the
office of General Manager Wood. but he is
still absent from the city.
MUST HAVE A HEARING.
A member of the Grievance Committee said
last night: "The Ft. Wayne officials would
like to make it appear that their men are not
interested in this meeting, and Mr.. Woods alb
sence from the city is explained when say he
is out along the line trying to keep his men
away from our committee. But they are here
just the same, and he will find out whether his
men have any grievances or not"
when will your committee be ready TO pre-
sent your grievances?" was asked.
II could answer that. but 1 don't want to let
the officials know when we are going to call on
them" was the reply.
One thing that indicates there are quite a
number of division superintendents slated FOL
a complaint from the committee is the fact
that the latter is overstepping the general rule
which provides that where grievances arise
they must first be presented to the division
superintendent and if an adjustment cannot
be secured it goes before the general superin
tendent. In this case the committee is coming
to the general superintendent first.
There are II division superintendents in all
and two general superIntendents. One OF the
latter is J. F. Miller, whose headquarters are
at Columbus, and who has under him the seven
division superintendents on the Panhandle
MIR. Watts is the other, and he has jurisdiction
over the five division superintendents on the
Fit. Wayne.
The committee will meet again this morning
at 10 o'clock when it is expected the full com
mitree will be present.