The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-08-17
]. ?, EMPLOYEES KICK
The Company Has Gone Away Back
on It's Agreement.
THAT CONFERENCE OF 1894
! elegraph Operators Are CrIeved
More Than Anybody Else =
Wedding out Organized Labor
heads he Case in Court.

Omaha. Aug. IA suit has been filed
In the United States circuit court which
is likely TO demonstrate just how great
permanent benefits the men on the Union
Pacific are TO reap from the famous wage
schedule conference held before Judge
Caldwell in March, 1894. Among the other
results OF this famous conference in fact,
the result II was called to accomplish,
was the adoption OF a wage schedule and
code of rules which was to govern the
relations Of the men and the receivers.
Among these rules was one which pro-
vided that no man should be discharged
without just cause, and another was
that the schedule OF pay fixed upon at
that time was not to be altered except
by order OF the court.
The men In the telegraph branch OF the
service allege that both OF these provi-
SONS have been violated, and on this
Issue will be Joined In case which was
filed yesterday in the United States cir
cult court. In this case J. r. weybright.
l.. NJ. Tudor. L. Rosenbaum and n. A.
Smith. representing the Order OF Railway
Telegraphers. members of the joint pro-
tective board OF the employees of the
Union Pacific system, appear as plaint-
iffs. The petition recftes the order enter
ed by Judges Caldwell and Riner al the
CONCLUSION OF that hearing in March, 1894.
and the conference leading up to IL. Then
they proceed TO state that the following
rates OF pay for telegraph operators were
| fixed by that order: Rogers. $50 per
month; Benton. ss7: Aida. SCI; Boone. si5:
and In violation OF that order the petf-
ton state that wages at these stations
have been reduced as follows: Rogers.
ss5 per month; Benton. SIS; Aida. t3s:
Boone. SIS: Rockville, s25. They petition
the court that the wages OF the men be
restored TO the amount named In the
schedule and the difference between that
| and the amount they have received since
| the reduction be paid to them.
BY far the most important portion Of
the petition is contained In the next par
agraph. In II the petitioners allege that
| the managing officials OF the company
are hostile to organized labor. and partic-
| ularly TO the Order OF Railway TeleGr-
| piers. and that a systematic EFFORT has
been made to weed out the leaders In
the order by summarily discharginG them
| without cause. Among these are cited r.
| y. Gtlhland and +. r. Dresback. The
telesraphers have another grievance
which will be brought to the attention
OF the court In petition which Will be
filed tomorrow. II has been the custom
on the Union Pacific for q long time to
deduct from the pay Of each man on the
system the sum Of 70 cents per menkh
for the maintenance of hospitals on this
system. The telegraphers allege that
they receive no benefit from the hospitals
except In cases Of q very few VINO reside
at the places where they are maintained.
They complain that they are not given
an accounting Of the expenditure Of the
money collected for this purpose from
the men. which they allege amounts to
ahout 100000 per year. and that II they
must pay they are entitled to know what
becomes OF the money. They will also al
lege m the peeition that ct the present
timc the Union Pacific does not maintain
any hospitals. simply having the use Of
small number Of cots IN hospitals con-
Quoted by private parties or associations,
and that the expense attached thereto 70
not sufficient to require the collection Of
money that b at present taken fron
the employees.