Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-02-16
THE RAILWAY LINES.
miscellaneous Views and GessSp-
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1Aecellame0us Views aEG 0ess2p-
Conductors BrotherheeC.
Several officers of the Pacific Improve
ment Company, which is an organisation
connected with the southern Pacific,
have recently been in San Pedro inspect
ing the ruins of the creosoting works
there. They are discussing the advisa-
bility of making temporary repairs of
sort to allow the creosoting work which
the company has on hand to be COM
pleted. The breaks in the retorts can
be calked 80 as to make them usable.
The pumps and machinery will bs sent
to the Amos Iron Works at San Fran
cisco to be repaired. The work of creo-
soting piles to b, used IN the wharves
will be begun as soon ss possible.
General Manager X. II. Wade end
General Freight and Passenger Agent
y. B. Hynes, OF the Southern Cal
ifornia, have returned from San
Diego. Williamson Dunn, of the
same line, who has just returned
from q trip to Riverside says that the
shipment of oranges will now slack up
little, as the eastern market is getting
very we'll stocked.
IF. Popple, general eastern passenger
agent of the Chicago and Atlantic rail-
road, is in the city.
One hundred people were carried to
Coronado on the Southern California
road in special excursion yesterday.
1t appears that the spreading of the
organization of the Brotherhood of Rail-
way Conductors is beginning to attract
the notice of the railway authorities in
the East. The Raslaoay Age says: A
new association, called the Brotherhood
of Railway Conductors, which was
started in California has gained a
foothold on several roads in that region
and farther east. The establishment of
q branch of this brotherhood on the Gin
cinnati Southern line of the Queen
and Crescent system has recently
been followed by trouble, in which
the affiliation of the conductors
brotherhood with the brotherhood of
engineers has become conspicuous. The
management of tie road in question, it
would seem, became convinced that the
new brotherhood was determined to
cause the retirement OF all conductors
belonging to the old organization, and to
cooperate with the engineers, when oc-
casion offered, in demands for increase
VI Wages, otCs AL C0AQuCtOI5 U6lOuR-
ing to the brotherhood, to the number Of
~, were therefore recently discharged.
The brotherhood of engineers immedi.
ately took the matter up, and is under
stood to have threatened to strike unless
the discharged conductors were re-
instated. The officials of the road
seem to have made no objection
to the organization of division of
the conductors brotherhood, and to
have paid no attention to it until, it is
claimed, its representatives demanded
the re-employment of men who had been
discharged for violation of the company's
rules. 1t is assumed by the brotherhood
conductors that they were discharged
simply because they belonged to the
new order, but the evidence. so far as we
have seen it, does not seem to bear out
this assertion. 1t is certain, however,
that the new brotherhood favors resort !
to strikes where they are declared neces-
sary to obtain what its mem bers consider |
to be their righvs, and it is also certain |
that there lie an affiliation between the
brotherhoods of conductors and en- !
gineers, |