The herald., 1894-11-13
The Railway Managers Asso-
citation Handled With
out Gloves.
PULLMAN COMPANY ALSO.
A. r. q. Officials Exonerated From
Blame for the Riots of July Last.
Triumph for Organised
LabOrs
By the Associa' ed Press.

By the Associa, ed Press.
CHICAGO, Nov. 12.-Ths United States
government report on the great railway
strike, in connection with the Pullman
trouble, was made public today. The
report, which is signed by the federal
labor commissioner, Carroll d. Wright,
and his NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., John d.
Herman of New York and Nicholas B.
Worthington of Illinois, is addressed to
President Cleveland and abounds in
passages which will attract wide atten-
ton, particularly the portion referring
to the now-famous General Managera'
association, the organization of high
railway officials that encompaseed the
memorable defeat of the American Rail.
way union.
AN UNLAWFUL CORPORATION.
The report says the capitalization Of
the "a railroads directed represented in
the General Msnageras' association was
50, los, ,552.6l7. The number of em-
ployees was 22l, ,097. The commission
continues:
This voluntarily unincorporated as
sociation was formed in 1885. In its
constitution the object OF the association
is stated to be the consideration OF
problems of management arising from
the operation of the railroads terminals
ing or centering at Chicago 1t further
provides that all funds needed shall be
raised by assessment divided equally
among the members There are no
limitations as to the considering OF prob
lens OF funds, except the will OF the
managers and the resources OF the rails
road corporations.
FIRST ABUSE CT POWER.
"Until June, 1894, the associations
possibilities as strike.ighter and wage
arbitrator lay dormant. Its roads fixed
a Chicago scale for switchmen. cover-
ing all lines at Chicago. In March. 1898,
the switchmen demanded more pay
from each road. The association con-
cluded they were paying enough-if
anything, too much. The roads so in-
formed the men. The SwitChmen's
Mutual Aid association of North Ameri-
ca wrote to Mr.. st. John, as chairman,
acquiescing. He, as chairman of the
General Managers association, conclud-
ed his story as follows: The association
approves the course taken by your body
and deaires to deal fairly with all en-
ployees, and believes our switchmen are
receiving due consideration
This seems 20 show" the report
says, that employees upon association
roads are treated as under subsection to
the General Managers Association"
and the report, after detailing the action
of the association in establishing agen-
ciss and employing men, adds:
This was the frst time that the men
upon each side we're brought sharply
face to face with the fact that in quess
tions as to wages, rales, etc., each lint
was supported by "a combined rail-
roads.
SCHEDULES OF WAGES,
"This association likewise prepared
for its use elaborate schedules of the
wages paid upon the entire lines of the
"a members. The proposed object OF
these schedules was to let each road
know what the other roads paid. Find.
ing the men upon some lines urged in-
creases to correspond with the wages
paid elsewhere, committee OF the ASSOC
citation prepared and presented a uni.
form schedule for all membership roads.
1t was deemed wise not to act upon the
TtpufIs IL WAS uiSeIluutou ~ n0IAooIu
in November, 1898. This distribution
alone enabled the report to be used with
efficiency as an equalizer AS the re-
suit during lS93-it being then we'll un-
derstood az to wages, etc.-it was an
incident OF the General Managers ssso-
citation to assist each road in case of
trouble over such matters, one form of
assistance being for the association to
secure men enough through its agencies
to take the places of all strikers. Re-
ductions were here and there made on
the different roads, the tendency and
effort apparently being to equalizs the
pay on all lines.
ut is admitted that the action of the
association has great weight with out-
side lines, and this tends to establish
one uniform scale throughout the
country. The further single step OF adj
mitting lines not running into Chicago
to mem bership, would certainly have
the effect of combining all railroads iK
wage contentious against all employee
thereon"
NO STANDING IN LAW.
The commission questions whether
any legal authority, statutory or other-
wi,e, can be found to justify some Of tbs
features of the association which have
come to light in this investigation, and
continues: iii we regard its practical
workings rather than its professionss as