The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-16
MO. PACIFIC men.
Many of the Employees in Ses-
sion at st. Louis.
Representatives of Various
Railway Orders.
SOMETHING ON FOOT
Secretary Kimsey of Hiawatha
an Active Member.
Dillon of Downs and Sipe of
Wichita Present.

st. Louis, Jan. 16.-Members of the
general grievance committee of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen for
the entire Missouri Pacific are in st.
Louis. There are twenty-one members
ana all registered at the st. James hotel.
They represent 2,SO7 trainmen on the
Missouri Pacific system
AT ~ O'Clock the committee went into
executive session in parlor at the St
James hotel, Chairman w. B. Rothroclx
OF 81 Louis presiding: The secretary
Is j. W. kimSey of Hiawatha, Kan.
To reporter Mr.. Kimsey represented
that the meeting was merely for the
purpose of transacting routine business
and for the annual election of officers
of the committee.
Our relations with the company"
said Mr.. Kimsey, ARE entirely salts
factory to both sides. We have no
with the company. We shall elect Of
Ulcers, transact some routine business
and adjourn. The routine business will
have to do merely with the inside work.
ingS of the order. The officers to be
elected are chairman and secretary
E. F. King, a member of the commit
tee, made similar statement.
The secret session of the committee
continued until 1 o'clock, when an ad-
journment was taken for dinner. At
the Office of General Manager Dodd-
ridge of the Missouri Pacific system it
was stated that nothing was known of
the company and the trainmen. No rep
resentatives of the latter had called
upon Mr.. Doddridge and no appoint
ment for a meeting with him had been
made in advance, as would have been
done were any grievances to be pre-
scented.
After the adjournment Secretary
Kimsey stated that little had been done
and that the election of officers would
probably not be reached until today.
He added enough to his original state
ment to indicate that the railroad men
are here on business of considerable
Importance.
Mr.. Kimsey then stated that members
of the board of federation, which is
composed of the officers of the general
grievance committees of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen, Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen and Order
of Railway Photographers, on the sys-
TENS where federation had been effect
ed, would arrive in St. Louis today.
He said the meeting of the board of
federation would be for the purpose of
eIecting officers, but, in view of the re-
cent meeting in Pennsylvania of the
chief officers of the railway orders, on
the matter of a general federation, it is
believed that the meeting will be sig
nificant. Mr.. kimSey stated that the
chief officers of the various organiza-
tions would perhaps attend the meet
ing.
The present officers of the board of
federation are w. B. Rothrock, chair
man. also chairman of the general
grievance committee now in st. Louis;
A ]. Dillon of Downs, Kan, vice chair
man. representing the Brotherhood of
Locomotive F'iremen, and Secretary
Sipe of Wichita, Kan, representing the
telegraphers.
Mr.. Kimsey stated that the meeting
of his grievance committee might con-
tinue but three or four days, or might
be prolonged ten days, the same being
true of the prospective meeting of the
hoard of federation.