The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-02-23
puNpYs DECISION.

Judge Caldwell Does Not Approve OF It IN
the Union Pacific Case-Employes Must
Have Notice.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 16.-Attorneys Thurs
ton and Corwin, of the Union Pacific
receivers, who came here yesterday to
endeavor to secure an order harmon
izing the contradictory opinions of
Judge Dundy at Omaha and Judges
Hallett and Riner at Denver in regard
to the receivers wages schedule, have
met with surprise at the hands OF
United States Circuit Judge Caldwell
After some desultory talk, Judge
Caldwell said to Mr.. Thurston that the
receivers had taken advantage of the
men behind their backs. go back to
Omaha and revoke that order" he con-
tinued. Then will take your case.
Prepare and advertise your schedule and
give the men notice. think that sixty
days might not be unreasonable Twill
then go to Omaha and hold conference
with your receivers and the representa-
tives of the labor societies, and we will
see if we cannot agree upon a schedule
that will be just to the employees and
will be such as the receivers can afford
to pay"
JUDGE DUNDY TALKS
LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 16. Judge
Dundy was found last evening. He
said: Eyes, have just been reading
the dispatches from St Louis detailing
the little conversation between Judge
Caldwell and General Solicitor Thurs
ton in which the latter was told to re-
woke the order recently made by the
Union Pacific receiver, touching the
matter of employees wages. The inn
preston that Judge Caldwell has over
ruled the orders of this court is
wrong, as you may see by
perusal of dispatches The
wage question has not been
brought up before Judge Caldwell and
his somewhat peremptory order to Gen.
Thurston does not in the least affect
the status quo of the wages question.
My order still stands and will stand
until it is reversed. The whole situa-
ton can be expressed in a few brief
sentences. The receivers made an or
der reducing wages on certain sched-
ules. They brought the order to me
in my approval of the order to
prevent the receivers from restor-
ing the old wages if they saw fit
to do so. They can do SO now If
they choose. Judge Caldwell's action
is unusual in this, that in a private con-
versation with the general solicitor of
the Union Pacific he orders the receiv-
ers to restore the old rates He does
not make the order in the shape of a
decision announced from the bench.
AS it is all that Judge Caldwell has
done is to order the receivers to tenn
porarily restore the old wages pending
a settlement His order places no new
aspect upon the situation as far as the
court is concerned. OF course l cannot
tell what the receivers will do in the
matter"
Suppose the receivers do not consider
Judge Caldwell's decision mandatory
and leave the wages "vhere they are
under the schedules approved by your
self, will the employees have the right
to striker" asked the Associated press
representative
''Why certainly" responded Judge
Dundy. with significant twinkle in
his eye. ''Of course they have the
right to strike in the sense that they
have the right to quit work and go
home. But if they attempt lowell,
if they attempt to raise row-they
will find that the orders of the court
are very much in force, yesterdays
order of Judge Caldwell to the con-
trarY Notwithstanding"