Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-12
THEY WILL NOT TALK.
Instructions Given to the Employees
Grievance Committee
HAVE BEEN OBSERVED CLOSELY.
It is Thought Demands for an Advance
Will be Made Morrow.
SUMNER IMPROVEMENTS COMPLETED

Sixty-two members of the Grievance COM
mittee of engineers. fremen, conductors,
trainmen and switchmen are now in the city.
Twenty-Five came in last night and about 40
more will arrive this morning. That will
complete the committee, and it will imme-
diately 60 into executive session in a hall in
the lower portion of the city.
The movements of the committee are
mysterious. Early yesterday morning
those who had quartered at the St. James
Hotel settled their bills and intimated
that they we're going to Allegheny, where a
meeting was to have been held last night.
The delegates did not go to Allegheny, nor
was the meeting held over there last night.
A few of them did pay fraternal visit to
one of the lodges of trainmen in Manches-
ter, but the meeting had no significance as
bearing on the mission of the Grievance
Committee.
AN AFTERNOON MEETING.
A sort Of an informal meeting was held
in the afternoon, but, according to the
statements of those who were present, nothing
of importance was done. Said one of them:
I'VE only talked over what we have before us.
and in way laid out programme We will
not get down to business before tomorrow
afternoon"
"Wiil you say whether or not you will present
a petition of any kind to the officialsf'
Il will not say what we will present them.
can repeat what The DISPATCH has already
printed that we will have a conference with
some of the officials before we go away"
Another delegate spoken to said: Il presume
we will arrive at point about Thursday where
we can give you complete statement regard
ing our conference here and what we propose
to do. Until that time. am satisfied you will
learn nothing, as every member of the COM
mittee was cautioned before coming here about
the persistence of the Pittsburg reporters and
each received instructions not to talk until we
were ready to say something"
That any Of the general officers are expected
here is denied. The business of the committee
is not SO difficult as that would seem TO in
dlcate and it is not expected to be necessary
to call upon the higher officials.
AN ADVANCE TO BE ASKED.
1t seems to be the general impression that
the men will make a formal demand for an
advance in wages, and the amicable settlement
of this question on several other roads is taken
as indicative that there will be no trouble on
any Of the roads. 1t is said that the reason
the committee has been called to order
was to arrange a scale of wages that might
be uniform in all the divisions OF the systems
represented. If this is accomplished it will do
away with the chief complaint involved in the
paid in the West than in Pittsburg without a
proportionate difference in the cost of living.
Among those who came in last night were r.
E. White, Alliance; L K. Leget, Z. j. Wilson.
r: P. Grabill, c. NJ. Harrington and John
Wilson, Columbus; H. NJ. Pitsenberger and G..
E. Prugh, Indianapolis; Theodore Minneman
and W. B. Lancaster, Logansport, Ind; n. H.
White, Ravenna, and Thomas Irwin, Dennison.