The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-29
CUT BY JUDGE DUNDY
Wages of Union Pacific Employees
Reduced by the Court,
And the Men Alleged to Have Been
Ordered to Remain at Work and
Accept the New Schedule.

OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 2S.-Union Pacific Ia
Dor circles were stirred to their utmost
depths to-day when the order of Judge Dun
dy 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 motion of the
court was not altogether a surprise, al
though most of the men had thought the
wage question would not be disturbed, but
Judge Dundy went his brothers on the fed
eral bench one better, and not only en-
Joined 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 Nebras-
ka, Kansas & Colorado division except on
light eight-wheel engines, sixteen and
seventeen-inch cylinders
By the proposed schedule the wages paid
engineers, firemen, hostlers and wipers will
be reduced 60-100 cents per mile, and the
wages, $50 cents per mile, will be in ex-
cess of that paid by other roads, except
the Missouri. Kansas & Texas and the
Great Northern. In Nebraska on train
men the cut is from s. to SIS per month,
conductors suffering least and brakemen
most. When the amount of the reduction
cannot be taken from a monthly salary,
reduction in mileage allowance Is made
sufficient to cover the equivalent of the cut
on stated salaries. On all but three diviS-
ions or districts-the sixth Wyoming dis
trict the Shosone & Nampa mixed trains
and the Negraska passenger division-the
cut on trainmen runs as high as in Ne
braska, and on some of the mountain d.
visions the reduction in mileage will
amount to considerable more than the 50
to SIS per month. The schedule is very
carefully prepared, covering everything
that could be considered a portion or
brakeman or conductors work, and speci-
fying what he shall receive for the same.
The telegraph operators are remembered
I'm the petition, and while no schedule is
fixed, as the receivers deem such wholly
unnecessary, it is agreed that s45 shall be
the minimum wages per month paid In
Nebraska and Kansas. with proportion
ately larger minimum west. The average
reduction is 5.4 per cent, and the average
reduction per man $50.
The concluding portion Of the petition
calls the courts attention to the matter Of
strikes which might result from the adop-
ton of the schedule and calls upon the
bench to protect the road against any
overt acts that might be brought about
by agitators and others who are not suffi-
.ciently acquainted with the terms of the
new schedule. which seeks to equalize sal
aries. Judge Thurston left to-day by spe-
cial train for Cheyenne. where he will ask
Judge Riner Monday morning. TO concur
in the order made by Judge Dundy, and
thence to Denver to see Judge Ballet. Con-
firmatory orders have been prepared for
all States traversed by the. rails of the
Union Pacific.
In the railroad history of America this
new schedule of the Union Pacific will un-
doubtedly stand as one of the most care
fully prepared documents ever presented TO
a federal judge and designed by a railroad
company to tide it over rapidly decreasing