The Redwood gazette., 1894-01-04

the Road.
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 27.-A conflict Is
on between the receivers of the North
ern Pacific railroad and its employees,
including all the engineers, conductors,
firemen. trainmen, switchmen and 9th
ers. The new schedule of wages
adopted by the receivers, which implies
a cut of 5 to 10 per cent in the en-
ployes' pay, was rejected by the en-
ployes' representatives at conference
held in st. Paul with General Manager
Kendrick, and the prospects are that On
Jan. l, when the new schedule is to go
into effect, $500 men, employed all
along the road, will quit work. This
outcome of the controversy was foreseen
by the receivers, for as early as Dec. 10
they applied for and obtained from
Judge jenkins, Ct the United States
court of this city, an order authorizing
and directing them to put into opera
ton
The New Schedule of Wages,
and restraining the employees and their
unions from combining and conspiring
to quit with or without notice the serv-
ice of the road with the object Of Grip
pling or embarrassing its operation, and
generally from interfering with the Off
GERS and agents of the receivers or their
employees in any manner by actual vio-
lence, intimidation, threats or other
WISE"
This Injunction was held back until
Tuesday, the receivers having expected
to arrive at an amicable agreement.
When they found such an agreement inn
possible, they telegraphed to their agents
and attorneys all along the line to have
the Injunction served by the United
States marshals on proper men, and to
make the injunction generally known.
An Extraordinary Document.
The order of the court restraining the
employees of the Northern Pacific from
combining and conspiring to quit the
service of the road" is an extraordinary
document. It is the first order of its
kind, it is said, ever issued in the United
States. A somewhat similar injunction
was issued by United States court in
Michigan during the strike of the
Toledo and Ann Arbor employees, but
that injunction was issued after the
strike was in progress. The grounds
for the issuance Of the present injunc-
ton are set forth in long petition of
the receivers, which was filed Dec. IL.
It appears from the petition that two
days after their appointment Aug. ~
the receivers, finding the affairs Of the
road in
A Deplorable Condition,
ordered a reduction of salaries varying
from 10 to 20 per cent of all officials and
employees whose pay per annum exceeded
81 200. That reduction went into effect
at once and was cheerfully accepted.
About week afterwards Aug. 25) the
receivers ordered a reduction of 5 per
cent on all wages running from $50 to
$75 and of 10 per cent on wages averag-
ing from $75 to 500 per month. This
order of the receivers did not go into
effect at once. They concluded to in
vestigate and revise the entire system of
wages and the different schedule of pay,
the task being imposed on the general
manager. At meeting of the receivers
on Oct. % resolutions were adopted alb
rogating the old schedules of pay, di-
recting the general manager to prepare
new schedule for the engineers. train
men and telegraphers, and ordering
reduction of the wages of the other men
as provided for Aug. 25.