The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-24
RAILROAD MEN ADOPT
HOT RESOLUTIONS
State Legislative Board Pays Its Pc.
spects 10 Certain Legislators.
DID NOT VOTE TO THEIR LIKING
Others Who Worked Along Lines Fa-
vored by the Boards Lobbyists Re-
ceive CONNIE nd ation--Two Secret
Sessions Lasting from Morning Un-
til Midnight Were Held. The OFF,
GERS Elected and Other Business
Transacted.

The State Legislative board Of Rail-
way Employees Of Pennsylvania met in
biennial session in this city yesterday
and in addition to transacting raft
of routine executive business adopted
resolutions condemning certain legis-
lators and extolling others for the
stand they took on questions pertain
ing to the welfare of railroadmen.
The board is made up Of one repre-
sentative from each lodge or division
of the five affiliated societies, Brother
Eood of Locomotive Engineers, Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firemen, order
of Railway Conductors, Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen and Order of
Railroad Telegraphers, the combined
membership of which is 100000 men.
AS it's name indicates the boards pur-
pose is the maintaining of a lobby at
Harrisburg and the election of legis-
lators favorable to labor interests, par
ticularly to legislation for the good of
railway employees. The officers, all
of whom, yesterday, were reelected,
are: President e. Bennett Mitchell,
engineer Harrisburg; vice president,
H. K. Fuller, trainman, Beaver Falls;
secretary, Hon. j. NJ. Weller telegra-
pher, Mauch Chunk treasurer, E. N.
McAlpine, conductor, Northumberland.
Two sessions were held in Raub's hall
OH Wyoming avenue, one lasting from
8 o'clock a. m. until noon and the
other from 1.30 p. IN. until nearly mid
night with only a short recess for
supper. At the morning session little
was done outside of enrolling the one
hundred and thirty delegates who pre-
sented credentials. At the second ses-
sion q great deal was done that would
doubtless make interesting reading,
hut the press committee saw fit to give
out solely the elections and the fol-
lowing resolutions:
THE RESOLUTIONS.
We reaffirm the belief that so far as
| legislation is concerned that which is in
| furious to the employer is detrimental to
| the employe and vice versa; therefore
| be Il
Resolved, That we, the state legislative
| board of railway employees of Pennsyl-
| vania, in convention assembled, call upon
| railroad employees to urge their senators
| and congressman to use their utmost en-
| deavor at the next congress to favorably
| pass the ticket brokerage bill known as
| senate bill No. 3545 or house bill No. 10000;
| also the readjustment of the interstate
| commerce law, allowing railways the priv
| ilege of a joint traffic.
Resolved, That we endorse the action of
the members of the last legislature in
their favors toward lis, especially the
work done in our interest by Senators
| Hardenbergh, Kaufman, Scott, McCar-
reil, Stiles, Merrick, Hummell, Vaughan
and Thomas, and Representatives Weller,
! Todd, Edmiston, Farr, McNees, West,
| Reilly, Heagy G. W. Rhoades, Greasy,
| Ely, Woodruff, FoCht, Clarency, Crothers,
North, McWhinrey, j. c. Campbell, Long
| and others.
Resolved, That we condemn the actions
of Senators Goblin, White. Durham Chas.
Brown, Losch, Coyle and Magee, and Rep
rescntatives Bliss, Kerkeslager and a few
others we'll known to this board for the
| anita gonism shown us in our efforts to
| procure just legislation.
The new executive committee was
chosen as follows:
Enginecrs-S. r. Monahan, Philadelphia;
f. b. Mitchell, Harrisburg; T. T. Sheridan,
Conemaugh.
Flremen--F. ]. May, Hallstead; b. f.
| Huber, Harrisburg; r. NJ. Clark, Mcl,ce's
| Rocks.
Conductors-W. ]. Maxwell, Philadel-
phia Il. N. McAlpine Northumberland;
| c. NJ. Taylor, Greensburg.
| Trainmen-J. II. Wesley, Easton; |. J.
| Wilt, Jersey Shore; II. r. Fuller, Beaver
| Falls
Telegraphers--H j. N. Weller, Mauch
| Chunk; e. L. Zimmerman, Harrisburg
NJ. D. Ulery, PittsburS.
The next convention will be held at
Erie in 1898, it having been decided to
change the date from the odd to the
even year so as to have the sessions
of the board just before the opening
of the legislature.