The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-23
UNION TO WAR UPON UNION
OLDER RAILROAD BROTHERHo0Ds
 ARE TO BE ABsORBED.

Plans That Arc to bs Carried Into Effect at
 e Meeting to bs Held Next January-
 The Federation of Labor Win Not be
 Represented.
 Chicago. July 22.-The Herald prints long article giving in detail the plans of the American Railway Union to ab- sorb the older railway brotherhoods and of the recently organized American Labor Union to take in every class of labor except railroad employees. The article says that some broad statemepts were made by officials at the American Railway Union headquarters yesterday as follows:
 That on or about January 15, 1895. there would be held in Chicago a con- vsntion composed of representative men of the American Railway union. the United Mine Workers of North Amer lea, the Knights of Labor and the Amer lean Labor union. That the American Federation of Labor and the old rail- way brotherhoods would not be repre- Bented in this convention.
 That at this convention all branches of labor represented would be called on to present a succinct report as to the then existing wage scales and how and 1894.
 much they had been cut in 1892, 1893
 That these wage scales should then | tnto nd n sented to the corporations and railroads fixing them on May l. 1895, with the de- hand that they be adjusted to the basis existing prior to the panic and hard times and that if this demand was not granted & general walk-out would fol- low.
 AS one officer of the Railway union put 1t: "The present strike will never be declared off by MT. Debs, and we expect, if the Chicago switchmen re- main firm that the Chicago roads will eventually compromise on @ basis sat- isfactory to all. There will be full analysis of wage-scales before any de- mand is made on capitalists for a change and the east will be as strong ly represented in the new labor organi- zations as the west. The movement of May l, 1895. then will be only re- enforcement of the strike begun on June 26, 1894"
 In this plan much is expected of the new American Labor union. whose membership is now claimed to be 1000 every class of labor except railroad em- ployes The cost of membership in the American Labor union Is the same as that in the American Railway union, $1 for a card, the card being good for a year. #
 Those behind the plan for the Janu- ary convention expect the acquittal of Debs by the courts and that following this he will make tour of the east delivering speeches and organizing branches of his order. While cam paigners from the American Labor union will follow him to make inroads in the ranks of the Gompers followers The American Railway union officials point to the ruin of the Mutual Aid Association of the Switchmen and with out the rest as soon as soon as it pro- vides insurance and beneficiary depart ments.
 The union officials regard the Broth erhood of Engineers as practically off, cially dead. They cite the dissolution of lodges of this order at Champagne Danville Terra Haute and in all parts of the country, but the east as evidence that the engineers either wish to be Independent or are ripe for a new organ ization. The American Railway union officials count on a convention in Jan- uary of 2.0o0 delegates. representing every branch of labor from newsboy to railroad engineer and with Debs presiding.