St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-29
A BIG SLASH IN WAGES.
JUDGE 0URDY ORDERS A UNION Pa
ciFIc REDUcTIOM
III AMOUNTS TO 10 PER CENT.

The Employees Of the Road En-
Joined From Striking - The
Men Greatly Excited Over the
Turn of Affairs-Other Judges
to Be Asked to Follow Dundy's
Decision.
OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 2S.-Union Pacific
laborerS were stirred to their utmost
depths today when the order of Judge
Dundy reducing wages on the system
was made public. All employees in
every department are affected by the
cut. which amounts to nearly 10 per
cent. The action of the court was not
altogether surprise, although most of
the men had thought the wage question
would not be disturbed, but Judge
Dundy went his brothers on the federal
bench one better, and not only enjoined
the men from striking. but cut their
pay and ordered them to work on at the
reduced pay. The proposed schedule
does not change the rate of pay on the
Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado divi-
SiOnS except on light Fights" wheel en-
gines, sixteen and seventeen-lnch cylin-
derS. BY the proposed schedule the
wages paid engineers. firemep, hostlerS
and wipers will be reduced 60-1O0 cents
per mile and the wages, $50 cents per
mile, will be i'll excess OF that paid by
any of the
TWENTY-SEVEN ROADS
mentioned in the inclosed statement,
except the Missouri, Kansas Il Texas
and Great Northern. In Nebraska on
tralnmen the cut is IS to SIS per month,
conductors suffering least and brakemen
most. When the amount of the reduc-
ton cannot be taken from monthly
salary, reduction in mileage allowance
is made sufficient TO cover the equiya-
lent of the cut OH stated salaries. On
all but three divisions or districts, the
sixth Wyoming district, the Shoshone
and Nampa mixed trains and the Ne
braska passenger division, the cut on
trainmen runs as high as in Nebraska.
and on some of the mountain divisions
the reduction in mileage viii amount to
considerable more than the S. to SIS per
month. The schedule is very carefully
prepared, covering everything that
could be considered a portion of a
brakeman or conductors work. and
specifying what he shall receive for the
same. Telegraph operators are remem-
bered i'll the petition, and, while
NO SCHEDULE IS FIXED,
as the receivers deem such wholly I'M
necessary, 1t Is agreed that S45 shall be
the minimum wages per month paid In
Nebraska and Kansas, with a proper
tIonately larger minimum west. Aver
age reduction, 5.4l per cent; average re-
ductiOn per man, $3.50. The concluding
portion of the petition calls the courts
attention 10 the matter of strikes which
might result from the adoption of the
schedule, and calls upon the bench to
protect the road against any overt acts
that might be brought about by agitat.
ors and others who are not sufficiently
acquainted with the terms of the new
schedule, which seeks to equalize salar-
les. Judge Thurston left today by spe-
cial train for Cheyenne, where he will
ask Judge Riner Monday morning to
concur III the order made by Judge
Dundy, and THENCE to Denver to see
Judge Ballet, cDnfrmatory orders hay-
ing eeen prepared for all states tray
ersed by the rails of the Union Pacific
company. In the railroad history of
America. this new schedule of the
Union Pacific will undoubtedly stand
as one OF the most carefully prepared
documents ever presented to a federal
judge and designed by a railroad COM
pany to tide it over rapidly decreasing
earnings.