St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-01
RAILWAY EMPLOYEES.
Conductors Withdraw Their APP
plication for Membership.

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plication for Membership.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, June 30.-The
supreme council of the Federation of
Railway Employees convened at 10
o'clock this morning and took up the
application of the order of railway con-
ductors for admissiod to the Federation.
While the matter was under discussion
the officers of the Order of Railway Con-
ductOrS withdrew the application, Civ
ing their reasons in communication.
Mr.. Clark, grand chief conductor, was
seen by a reporter and gave the reasons
as follows:
1.-The application for membership
was withdrawn because we do not wish
to belong to an organization which
makes its own laws and rules as it
goes along and to suit the emergency.
We were not hasty in the matter, al
though our minds were made up at the
Chicago meeting. We came here at the
invitation of the president Of the coun-
ell and have been here since last
Wednesday. The action of the council
yesterday in expelling the Brotherhood
of Railway Tralnmen decided the mat
ter and we withdrew. Each organization
III the Federation is entitled to three
votes on all questions, but because Mr..
Sargent was IN the chair yesterday, the
firemen were only allowed two votes.
According to all preliminary laws the
presiding officer may vote to decide
tie, or he may cast a vote whenever his
vote will make tie, and thus defeat
measure. Whenever a representative
of labor organization allows personal
feeling to influence his vote or action,
so soon does he fail in his duty to his
fellOw-men, and i believe that personal
feeling has controlled the action of
the council ever since the Chicago
meeting. We have done nothing bnt
what we think the members of our
lodges would vote to do were they to
see the matter as we do" The Order of
Railway COnductorsshas membership
of 1900.
The application of the Order of Rail-
way TelegrapherS was next discussed,
and was rejected owing to the compli-
cations existing between the Order of
Railway TelegrapherS and Brotherhood
of Railway Telegraphers. They will
be advised that until such time when
they can harmonize neither or
ganization will be admitted to the
Shortly after o'clock the council adj
jOurned until tomorrow morning, when
the report of the committee on the re-
vision of the constitution will be ready.
The committee consists OF MessrS. How
ard, Sweeny and Debbs. Mr.. Morrison,
of the trainmen, was member of the
committee, but the action of the council
yesterday severed his connection with
that body rather suddenly. AT DOon
Messrs. ThurstOn, of the Order of
Railway Telegraphers, and William
Mitchell. grand secretary and
treasurer of the Brotherhood of Rail-
way Station Men and other officials of
the same orders met at the Terre Haute
hotel and formed an alliance and took
steps tOword federation. A meeting
will be held in the near future, lat which
the arrangements will be perfected for
a second federation of railway em-
ployeS. These two organizations were
refused admission into the present fed
GRAFTON, and they propose to organize
now for their own protection.
federation. Both orders of opera
tors admit commercial telegraph
ers to membership, and it is thought
that from this point detrimental COM
plications might arise at some future
time. The application of the Brother
hood of Railway Station Masters was
next taken up and also rejected. One
of the reasons for the rejection is the
small membership and the poor man
ner of organization. The body is with
out very definite aim.