The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-24
A STRIKE PROBABLE
Demands of the q. P. Grievance
Committees Refused.
AN INFLUENTIAL MANS VIEWS
The Members Getting Tired of the Long
drawn Out Affair-They Merely
Want Fair Play.

OMAHA. Feb. 23.-[Special telegram to
The HERALD. After all, there is strong
probability of strike on the Union Pacific.
Mr.. Dickinson replied to the grievance
committee yesterday, refusing to accept
their schedule. and submitting PROPOSE
ton of his own. Since then the committee
have held joint meeting and unanimously
rejected the company's offer. The COM
mittee's proposed to insist on settlement
of the matters at issue. ''If we don't get
fairer treatment than we have had so far,"
said an influential member of one of the
committees this morning, ''There is likely
to be trouble. Our members are sick and
tired of this long drawn out affair,
and if we can't get satisfaction within q
few days, some of them will be slipping
out for home. While the matter of strik-
ing would ordinarily go to the grand Off
| GERS for decision, there are great many
hot heads in the ranks and there mem bers
of these commissions who can tie up whole
divisions by saying the word. We are the
victims of the rankest kind of injustice and
we mean TO have some satisfaction. The
principal demand we are now making is
for change in the manner Of COM
putting overtime. When we pre-
sented our first proposition Mr..
Dickinson made some figures AID de-
clared that it meant an increase of $500, eco
in the annual pay roll of the road. He
/ figured on our revised schedule aud de-
clared that it would aggregate an increase
of 100000. But we pointed out one item
where he had made a mistake of S13 600.
At our first meeting, he offered US $4,000
to drop the controversy and go home. That
would hardly have paid the expenses of the
! two committees during their stay in Omaha.
IN his proposition Of yesterday he made
| a few trifiing concessions that would sg-
gregate Sl3,S00. Some divisions were
ignored. When we left him the other day
he said that if the engineers schedule was
all we wanted, we could easily come to
terms. He made a straight backdown. In
explanation he said that when he come to
figure on it he found it would make an in
crease twice as big as he supposed it would
be. He proposed to make concessions
based on the raise granted the engineers
and 1remen last fall. For example
on some of the mountain divisions
the pay of the engineers was raised from
81 per 100 miles to 81 40 and on the divi
sion between Denver and Fort Worth from
So so to SO IS. The increase TO the en-
gineers amounted to about So 900, a total OF
$4,000. Mr.. Dickinson proposed to allow
US a pro rata sum based on the number oil
mea in the two branches of the service
I6t WOuIu JGbO dOOuO pay INC CA DCHSSS VI
our grievance committee to date. 1t viii
not do. We mean 10 be treated
as fairly as the engineers
and fremen are. In our conference las
Friday General Manager Clark tried tt
iplay on our sympathies. He told US of wha
hard time Jay Gould and Sidney Dillo1
were having to make the road pay, and sale
his reputation as a manager was at stake
He wanted to know why we were not salts
fed with the terms that ruled under tn,
old management and made personal ap
peal to US to consider his interest in TIT
matter. Some members of the committee
were affected by Mr.. Clark's talk, but the.
have recovered.