The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-18
LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN.
The MOmentOus Questions Coming
Between Debs and Sargent.

between DeDS anu SaESeAIs
The recent joint meeting of the grand
executive board and the board of grand
trustees of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Firemen that met in Terre Haute. to
discuss and pass upon matters of vital
Importance to that order has concluded
its labors and apparently with satisfac-
ton to all interested. W. F. Hynes, of
Denver, is the custodian of the protective
fund for the order, and at the meeting
his accounting for the same was both
clear and satisfactory. Grand Master
Sargent was indicated in his action re-
lating to the strikes on the Lehigh Vail
ley road, Toledo & Ann Arbor, Louis
The joint board declared that his judg-
ment has been sound, his acts wise, and
his utterances reasonably conservative
in perfect consonance with the laws and
policy of the ORDER
The Brotherhood was declared to be in
a prosperous condition, having 519 lodges
and membership of 1886 An address
to the order was also, prepared, which
says in part: For the past eighteen
months a rigorous propaganda of vilifica-
ton, innUendo, slurs and ISLANDERS has
been maintained and directed with ma
lignant purpose against our order and
! its grand officers. The batteries of the
| falsifierS have been turned upon Us
with the set intent, doubtless, OF ais
rupting our organiza ton. Every mean,
| low, Sneaking method which perverted in
genuity could devise has been resorted to
| to excite suspicion in the minds of the
rank and file of our membership and
order In this our enemies have two
| fold purpose, to accelerate our dissolu-
! ton by disheartening the rank and file,
and to so disgust our grand officers that
! they will retire from the POSITIONS they
I'VE denounce as unmitigated false
! hoods the fugitive items of news floating
| through the press of the country about
/ 3 ,-T,oI H., af
| corruption of our grand officers. we eau
| ton our members against the insidious
approaches of those who are engaged IN
| a reprehensible effort to belittle and dis
them the expediency of remaining true to
| the order and it's officers who have been
so true to them"
From the foregoing it will be readily
seen that the address is q. most remark
able one coming at this time, and be-
tokens much to follow. Can it be that
meant for Eugene V. Debs? Mr.. Debs is
editor of the F,ireman's Magazine, and is
the president of the American Railway
| Union, the new order that mas SO lately
| acquired phenomenal success in the labor
world. The labor loving world might we'll
deplore any such estrangement as fa1ntly
outlined-it would be calamity to the
Firemen's Brotherhood, it could not We'll
be Interpreted in any other light. Debs
! has by his fearless writings on labor in
behalf of the masses, and by magic and
winning oratory, entwined himself in the
hearts of not alone the tirenlen, nut all
classes of railway men. He is second to
none as a prince of labor leadership soul
is in his work-his every move proclaims
| it Men like Debs and Sargent cannot
afford to fall out in this age, when there
should be, if possible. a. more perfect unity
in labor ranks than has oft times been
witnessed in the past However, the near
| future will determine what is the real
| significance of the small speck that has
! shown upon the horizon-a tiny speck that
should not be allowed to grow-if there is
aught in appearances.