The record-union., 1894-08-13
THE ENGINEERS WILL NOT STRIKE.
They Never Asked to be Paid During
the Late Trouble.
Their Pay Is Based on the Distance
Covered-What Prominent
Engineers Say.

The rumored intention of the engineers
and conductors on the Southern Pacific
to strike unless they are paid for the time
lost during the recent trouble is pro-
nounced without the slightest foundation
by the officers of the road. General
Superintendent Fillmore says that the
employees mentioned have not only made
! no such complaint to his office, but they
! have not even asked that they be paid
for the time in question. General
Manager Towne said practically the same
thing.
The San Francisco Call. which is not
given to going out of the way to treat the
railroad company even fairly, says that
there is a perfect understanding be-
tweed the railroad officials and the heads
of the engineers and conductors orders
as to the matter OF lost time during TIA 9
strike, and if any difficulty should occur
it would be good wager that it will be
amicably settled without the public
knowing anything about it. The MEM
bers of the two orders mentioned have
been particularly fortunate in receiving
recognition of their grievanc ces in the
past and are not likely TO go on strike
without some emergency at present un-
| forseen should arise.
"It appears, from statements of con-
! ductors running on the coast division
| that misunderstanding exists among
few regarding the payment of salaries
| during the period of the recent strike
! Some of them are of the opinion that the
| Southern Pacific intended paying the
regular salaries to those who reported
| for duty daily, the matter of running
| trains being only side issue as far as
| they were concerned. Others discredit
the rumor, believing it to be ruse of the
American Railway Union, with view
! of rousing the non n-strikers, while many
claim that the matter of receiving no
salary during the strike was thoroughly
understood.
IA number OF conductors on the Santa
| Cruz run, who have turned in their July
pay-lStS, claim that as far as they are
aware the amounts have been accepted.
/ These call for full months wages.
There has been no claim raised for
for such an allowance, and no thought of
raising any that l have heard of said 5.
| ID. Billings, prominent member of the
| Oakland b. l.. E.. division, yesterday
afternoon. The engineers are paid so
| much for the mileage travelled during
the month, and when they don't travel
they don't expect TO be paid. | have at
! tended the meetings OF the Oakland di-
vision regularly. and last week wrote the
minutes of the meeting, and am in posi-
ton to know that not only no action has
been taken, but no suggestion has been
made to ask for pay for work not done.
Those men whose trains were tied up by
the strikers out OF town-that is, between
terminal points-will expect pay for the
time they We're laid up at such place, and
they will get it, according to custom.
Otherwise they expect nothing, and if
they get anything it will be surprise
party to them
Ibid not the engineers understand
! Mr.. tillmore's promise to stay with the
men who stayed with the company to
mean that they would be paid full timer
"'Certainly not We understood that
we would find our places waiting for us
when things got to going again, while
the other fellows would be waiting for
places that were filled. That was all.'
III. L. Stevenson, road fore man of
engines, characterized the story as an