The record-union., 1894-07-02

admitted if a majority of the organizations
party to the federation vote in favor OF such
admission.
Section 10. These articles may be revised,
altered or amended by unanimous consent or
the executive OF the organizations, party
thereto.
L. p. Sargent, Grand Master B. of L. F.: E. L.
Clark, Grand Chief Conductor o. OF K. O.;
). L. Wilkinson, Grand Master b. OF h. Il
ID. g. Ramsey, Grand Chief Telegrapner ".
OF X. T.; j. L. Wilson, Grand Master d NJ.
Wv. Stafford, Chairman o. r. c.; Ed. T.
Josie, Chairman :. NJ. A. A; G. e. Swain,
Chairman B. OF K. T.; j. Friant, Chairman
B. L. f.; b. A. Meyer, Chairman .. H. l.,
May ., 1884.
Continuing, Mr.. Stafford said: 'This
shows clearly how carefully strike must
be considered before it can be inaugur-
ated. 1t shows that the bulk OF the III
telligent, educated bodies of railroad men
are allied in organizations of their own
anG federated by these articles. The men
belonging to these organizations have
had years of eXperince and are above the
grade OF labOrers. They are men who
have attained their positions and intend
TO hold them.
"Now as to the fight made by the Amer
ican Railway Union, l am going to come
right out. Perhaps 1t is indiscreet OF me,
but l mean it. This fight is gross in
justice to the Southern Pacific Company.
The American Railway Union has no
right to come to this coast and tie up this
company and try to force us ali into their
fight. l am not surprised that 1t has done
so, because l believe that this new organ
lZation wants to dominate all the OLD
ones"
Mr.. Stafford frequently consulted with
Mr.. Clough, who was with him, and
when they were asked about the origin OF
the movement to lower wages at the
Pullman Car Works afforded the follow
ing information. Mir. Stafford vouching
for its accuracy: "If it comes to show
down." said he, II will prove what l
say" He then told the following story:
Il am informed that the Pullman cor
poration kept the works at Pullman open
because ii they had been closed down 1t
would have lost S50,0 900 month. 1ou
must know that the company owns the
water works, the car lines, the gas works
and almost everything in sight. To smut
the works down would mean to close up
the town, to keep them open at reduced
wages would mean to lose 200 month
and make SIC, 900 through all these differ
ent properties; in other words, S4O,0OO
would be made, and so the shops were
left open. The American Railway Union
claims that Pullman declared dividend
of 2 per cent. the very month after the re-
ductlon of wages was announced. The
Pullman cars could be kept in operation
on all the railroads lines even if the shops
were closed, as the railroads companies
using them are obliged to keep them in
repair.
beaten Jim Hill of the Great Northern,
am told, cast about to find another open
ing to eXpend their energy and enthuSl-
asm, and so they sent their organizers to
Pullman City. Now the men at the shops
were not eligible, even under the elastic
constitution Of the American Railway
Union, TO membership in that organiZa-
ton. Three hundred of the employees
there are Poles who cannot speak Eng
lish. They are contract laborers, and are
even now under investigation as such by
the Federal authorities, with view to
their deportation. An effort was made TO
get them into the labor organizations, and
finally man who could speak their own
language and English. too, was found.
He addressed the Poles, and as a result
they were enrolled as members of the
Brickmakers' Union. The American
Railway Union then enrolled them in
body. 1t was their allegiance to the latter
that was made The reason for espouSlng
their cause by the American Railway
Union, and so for tying up the Southern
Pacific Company. My reason for giving
these facts to the Chronicle is that L know
the Younger members of the American
w
may not understand why the older Or
ganizations-that is, the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen, Order OF Railway
Conductors, Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen, Order of Railroad Telegraph
ers and the Switchmen's Mutual Aid AS
sociation-have taken the course an
nounced to-day. We know that our
course is the fair one, and, more than
that. it is the only course We can follow.
We have no choice but to do as we have
done"
Mr.. Stafford's opinions were forcibly
summed up when he said; "We have
10000 conductors in the Order Of Railway
Conductors. We have too much at stake
to Join dynamite organization like this
American Railway Union"
As the suggestion was made that the
members of the various orders would be
designated ''scabs" by the American Rail-
way Union men if they worked while the
members of the latter struck, Mr.. Stafford
offered the following definition of
''scab":
If there is anything" said he, that
is obnoxious to workiDgmen to-day it is
the man called 'scab.' Literally scab'
is a man who takes the place of another
who has stepped down because he has a
legitimate grievance and presents his
grievance in a legitimate way, from the
standpoint of organized labor. The term
'scab' will no doubt be freely applied in
connection with the present trouble, but
a man cannot be scab to the American
Railway Union under this system, for the
reason that the American Railway Union
mas no agreements whatever with the
Southern Pacific Company, and all the
other organizations have. We have been
very careful, as chalrmen of these differ
ent organizations to instruct our men to
stay simply in the line OF their regular
business, ana so long as our men adhere
to these instructions they cannot be
'scabs.' A fireman of our order who re-
places an American Railway Union fire.
man is not in any sense of the word a
'seab.' He is performing his ordinary
duty in line with his own organization
and the agreements existing between the
Southern Pacific. Company and that or