The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-24
The ANN ARRoR CASE.

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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. March 23.-Grant
Master Sargent has instructed Thomas w
Harper, general counsel for the firemen
| to contest Judge Ricks' decision. The
latter will leave for Toledo Friday, and
will join hands with Frank Hurd. repre-
| senting the engineers.
TOLEDO o, March 23.-This morning
| the Lake Shore engineers were on the
| stand as witnesses for the defense in tbs
| Ann Arbor trial. Il was the intention oil
their attorneys to show that when they
| refused to handle Ann Arbor cars they
were not Lake Shore employees, having
previously resigned. The engineers all
testified to the same thing-that they
knew nothing of the courts orders aad
were not aware that there were any Ann
Arbor cars in the train they were asked to
haul.
When the court reconvened this after
noon the illness of FRANKIE Hurd of the
counsel for the engineers was announced.
and the court adjourned until Monday.
CLEVELAND, O., March 22-Chief Ar
thur, of the locomotive engineers, made a
statement tonight, defending his position
in the Ann Arbor strike. Mr.. Arthur
says:
Il find it very hard to make the public
understand that l do not order any stop
page of work, and could not if | wanted
TO. The men themselves vote upon it, and
if a majority decide to stop work, of
course it is done. In this case every hon.
orable effort was made to adjust the
difficulty, but without success, and here it
is said that the men stopped work without
giving notice, which is not true, as l my
self addressed a letter to General Manager
Ashley, of the Toledo, Ann Arbor and
Northern Michigan railway, informing
him that his engineers and firemen had
determined to leave his service at q O'Clock
a. m. on Wednesday. March s, thus giving
him ample time to decide whether he
would grant the reasonable request OF his
men or not.
III. w. Ashley, general manager. when
informed him that had appealed to his
father, President Ashley, remarked very
abruptly, He is an old man; he does not
know whether am paying 2 cents mile
or 50, and must not be disturbed If
there had been head to the Ann Arbor
railway that believed in living and letting
live, we would not have had trouble; but
SO long as this grinding process Is carried
out by the railways, just so long will there
be trouble with the companies. The en-
gineer's life is hard one at best. He
must report for duty many times when
not able to do so, or lose his situation. and
il he be man OF family it is not al easy
thing to do.
Besides, many times men are made eX-
ampies Of to crafty the petty spite of su-
perintsndent or master mechanic, and are
removed on the slightest preteXt. 1t does
not take some men long to forget that
they came from the switchman's to the
position, or from wiper
to master mechanic. All the engineers
and flremen ask is fair play, and there will
be no trouble. If men are not at liberty
to quit work at time when it suits their
then certainly the same rule
will apply to railway company, and will
deny them the right to discharge man at
any time they choose without consulting
his convenience or comfort. We are at
any time ready to subscribe to any rule
that will apply alike to employer and en-
ployen