Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-02
ORDER A HEARING.
Judges Sanborn and Caldwell Take
Hand in the Union Pacific Wage
Schedule.
Receiver Clark Will Meet Employees
at Omaha From Day to Day and
Discuss the Matter.
Whatever Differences Remain Unset
tied on March ~ Will Be De.
cided by the Court.

OMAHA, FEB. 2S.-The employees Of
the Union Pacific are to have hearing
upon the wage question, and will be in
vited to meet President Clark, of the
system, and others whom he may select
March Is, in conference, said conference
to continue from day to day until an
agreement is reached. This much has
been ordered by the circuit court of the
United States. Judges Caldwell and
Sanborn issued the following on appli-
cation of General Solicitor John M
Thurston, who stopped off at St. Louis
en- route from New York for that pur-
pose:
The Order of the Court.
Since the action of the courts in the
different districts in this circuit on the
petition filed by the receivers for leave
to revoke the schedules of wages of the
employees in force when they were ap-
pointed, and to adopt new and reduced
schedules has not been uniform and har-
monlous, and since it is desirable and
necessary that any order made on said
petition should have uniform opera
ton upon the lines Of railway operated
oy SAID receivers throughout the cir
cult, and since the receivers have re-
voked and annulled their action hereto
fore taken, ordering new wage scales
into effect on March :, 1894, and have
resolved that the entire matter of new
wage schedules be held in abeyance to
await further action of the court, it is
now hereby ordered as follows:
First-That the petition of the re-
celvers for leave to set aside and annul
the schedules of wages of the employees
on the Union Pacific system in force
when they were appointed and to adolt
new schedules, equalizing, and in some
cases reducing the wages of employees,
be set down for hearing before the cir
cult judges at Omaha, Neb., on the 9th
day of March, 1894.
Second-That the receivers forthwith.
as soon as may be practicable, invite the
proper representatives Of employees on
said system to attend conference at
Omaha, Neb., commencing on the 10th
day OF March, 1894, for the purpose of
comforting with S. H. H. Clark, receiver,
(Who IS hereby specially designated and
selected to conduct said conference ON
behalf OF the receivers) and such other
person or persons as he may select
to act with him, at which conference
the entire matter of proposed changes
In wage schedules shall be taken up,
and as far as possible, agreed upon be-
tween the said Clark and said represent
atlves of the employees. Such confer.
ence to continue from day to day, until
such agreement is reached.
Third-That in case there are any
differences remaining unadjusted, such
matters of differences shall be clearly
and specifically stated and presented
to the court in writing on or before said
9th day of March, 1894, and the hear
ing herein shall proceed as to such mat
ters in difference before the circuit
judges holding the court, and after
hearing the parties and their witnesses
and counsel, the Circuit judges shall
make such order in the premises as may
be right and just.
Fourth That the receivers grant to
such representatives of the employees
leave of absence to attend said confer
ence and hearing, and furnish them
transportation to Omaha and return.
Receivers Met at ew York.
At the meeting of the receivers in New
York last week, the wage question was
taken up and discussed in all its bear
ings. Judge Thurston explained the
embarrassing position in which the re-.
ceivers We're placed by reason Of the
different orders made in the diEt,fent
district courts of the eighth and ninth
circuits and asked that the former res.
olution, whereby Judge Dundy was
asked to give the receivers power to
make new schedules be withdrawn,
which course was finally agreed upon,
Mr.. Thurston having secured resolu-
ton Of the receivers abrogating the
schedules sought to be put in force
March l, left for ST. Louis where he
asked the circuit court to make the or.
der as above.
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