The San Francisco call., 1895-12-13
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS,
Their Board of Adjustment in
Annual Session in This
City.
Local Grievances Being Presented to
the Officials of the Southern
Pacific.

For the past ten days there have been
daily meetings in this City of the Board of
Adjustment of the sixteen LODGES of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, rep
resenting the sixteen divisions of the
Southern Pacific Company's railway sys-
tenn, comprising the lines operating be-
tween San Francisco and New Orleans, be-
tween San Francisco and Ogden and be-
tween San Francisco and Portland, Or,
and including all the branches and feeders
OF these great railway arteries.
The presence of this Board of Adjust
ment has been the basis of numerous and
various surmises, it having been an
nounced, among other things, that it W
here to arrange and settle serious differ
ences that had arisen between the brother
hood and the Southern Pacific Company
relative to the new scale of wages adopted
last year.
On the part of both the company and
the brotherhood this report is strenuously
denied. 1t is explained that the Board of
Adjustments presence here is in accord
ance with the regular course of affairs.
The board holds its annual meetings in
this City. hears and considers the local
grievances of the various divisions and de-
termines which are worthy or unworthy of
presentation to the railroad company for
adjustment
In other words it Sits out the individual
complaints and throws out such as are con-
sidered to have no just foundation. These
cases are then in proper form submitted to
the railroad officials and are mptly and
amicably settled, concessions being made
sometimes on one side and sometimes on
the other. Speaking of the matters now
hnf0 ho ay1 cfoSo ~ I,
no broad question agitating the brother
hood and that all the local grievances
would probably be amicably settled as thev
were in turn brought to the attention of
the railroad officials. 1t is not expected
that any serious difficulty will arise and
the members OF the board expect to con-
clude their Iabors and depart to their re-
spective homes early next week. The de-
| lay has been due solely to the absence of
| General Manager Kruttschnitt, but now
| that he is back, all matters are expected to
receive prompt attention and satisfactory
| adjustment.
On Wednesday there was a conference
with Superintendent Small of the motive
power department, and his report will
probably be made to the Southern Pacific
officials in this City to-day The cases
submitted to Superintendent Small were
only those which come properly under his
! jurisdiction as superintendent of the
motive power department. Meanwhile
other cases belonging to other depart
ments are being prepared for submission
| by the board, and it is to pass on each in
dividual com plant before it is submitted
to the railroad company that the daily
meetings of the board of adjustment are
| held.
Fourteen of the divisions are represented
| here by the foliowing-named gentlemen
Messrs. F. V. Meyers and Bowley of San
Francisco, Hatfield of Oakland, G. w.
Mccoy of Sacramento, l.. Jerdeau of Rock
lin, Eden of Wadsworth, n. s. Silsby OF
Ogden, J. 'Malley of Portland, Stroud OF
Grants Pass, }. More of Fresno, r. Goble
of Los Angeles, John Loudon of Tucson,
E. E. Moulton of San Antonio, Gardner OF
Dunsmuir.
Meyers is chairman of the board and
| Moulton is the secretary. The latter
gentleman also holds the proxies for the
two divisions which are not personally
reDresented.