The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-25
WANT THEIR MONEY
Employees Of the Frisco" Road
Threaten to Go on Strike.
Claim the Company Is Behind i'm Wages;
but This the Officers Deny in
Emphatic Terms.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal

Special 10 the journal.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 24.-Deferred payments
to employees of the st. Louis & San Francis
co road is going to cause the company lot
Of trouble unless matters are speedily rem
edied. Meetings of employees were held yes
terday at Monet, No., and Emporia, Kan.
and the first steps taken looking to a strike
unless the pay car arrives shortly. AT the
Monet meeting the engineers, fremen. train
men and bridge carpenters were repre-
scented. A resolution was passed that the
company be required to pay the two months
salary now overdue before Nov. 20, and
prompt payment be made every month
thereafter Requests were sent to every
local lodge on the system to send repre-
sentatives to general meeting to be held
in Monet next Monday, the purpose of which
is to secure some action At the Emporia
meeting mo pay, no work. was decided
upon.
j. w. Lyons, chairman Of the grievance
committee of the railway conductors on the
Santa Fe system, was present and encour-
aged the men In their stand for back pay.
A committee was appointed, which went to
Topeka this afternoon, where they will lay
before the officers of the road the ultimatum
of paying the September wages on or before
Saturday next or having the most unani-
nous walkout in the history of the road on
their hands. The opinion is general at En-
poria that strike will result, as it is un-
derstood that the officials of the road will
not meet the demand.
The merchants of Emporia and elsewhere
along the line have been carrying the men
for nearly two months, and are unable to
do so longer, as the merchants claim that
the financial stringency bears harder upon
them than any other class of the commu-
nifty. They also argue that the railroad
company will not trust them a day for
freights, but that, in fact, all railroad bust
ness is cash in advance, and that, there
fore, the employees should be paid immedi-
ately.
The general officers of the Frisco in
st. Louis have not been officially advised
of the meetings at Monet and Emporia-
General Solicitor Kenna, when seen to-
night, said: I'VE have not been behind In
our payments to employees two months, or
one month, for years past Our regular pay
days are between the 22d and 18th OF every
month, but for the past two months we
have been between twelve and fifteen days
late. The report Is absurd, that We are be-
hind two months and our employees are suf-
fering as a consequence. do not Know
anything about the meeting held at Monet
When an employee. for instance is placed
on the pay roll Sept. l. his wages for that
month is due Oct. % or 25 or whenever the
pay-car reaches the point where he Is as
Si"ned to duty. But, as L nave already
stated for two months past we have been
several days behind time as other roads
have been during the hard times. and, in
stead of paying off on the "a we nave nav,
held over until the 1st of next month. qhls
is the sum and substance of the whole
affair"
Local employees of the Frisco were ready
enough to talk tonight and all seemed of
oninion that there would be a general strike
unless the overdue pay was forthcoming
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