The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-02-07


met last night in the Old Opera House
pursuant to IL call for Il meeting to con-
slider the garnishee business which has
been the talk of the town and which has
caused not II little uneasincss among the
laboring people
The house was iammcd full, and no
one was admitted unless known to he an
cmployc of the shops or railroad com
pany. 1t was strictly meeting, of shop
and railroad men, outside of two minis
tiers, DIR. Broughton and Rev. Mr.. Kim
mel. who were there by request
Representatives. of the press were not
allowed. Committees were lined up or
the outside of the entrance and lawyers,
merchants, clerks and everybody was ex.
cludcd,, but the employees of the railroad
company.
Il. H. Reed was elected temporary chair
man and H. a. Figgat temporary secre
tary, after which permanent organiZa.
ton was effected electing VIM. NJ. Carr.
chairman, and j. NJ. O'I'rcn secretary
Several speeches were made advocating
the steps taker for I'm organization of the
lahoring element.
1t was decided best to appoint II board
of arbitration to be composed of two
members from each department of the
shops and each class of railway employees.
IL being the duty of this board to wait
upon the merchants, doctors and tax col.
lectors and ask for i'm extension of time
for the payment of debts and taxes in
order 10 give the working men who are
behind an opportunity to paw up. They
were also to take into consideration the
advisability Of adopting IL cooperative
merchandise business for the benefit OF
the working men of the city and report
at another meeting.
This committee will also examine into
the matter ofObtaining cheaper coal ont
side of the combination which maintains
high price on fuel in this city.
The men went about the matter in II
business like, conservative way and show
eel by their manner that they were plainly
in earnest, and while not disposed to try
to cvadc the payment of just debts. that
they meant to protect their homes and
families and their positions by doing the
square thing.
The Times regrets that the representa-
tive of the paper who WAS sent to the
meeting was turned down and not allowed
to be present, as it has always been the
policy of this paper to uphold the rights
OF the labOrinG classes and the svmp1thies
of the management has always been with
the oppressed. However, the reporter,
who never allows small obstacles to pre-
vent his scoring tine news, managed to
get the whole proceedings with the name
OF every member of the board of arbitra-
ton, with three exceptions.
AS this story WAS being written Mr.
o l}rien, the secretary, came in and kind.
ly furnished us with Il few minor details,
together with IL perfect list of the board
Of arbitration. Had this not been the
case, however, the public would have
been given the full details of the meeting
anyway.
The Times calls attention to these facts
owing to the manner in which the re-
porter was turned down by the commit
tee ut the door.
The arbitration committee is composed
as follows:
Machine shops: j. ID. Carr and a. L.
Fairweather.
Erecting shops: j. d. Mccormick and
j. II. Patterson
Copper shop: d. q. Harrington and T.
B. Forbes.
Boiler shop: Joe Morgan and W. II.
RUSSELL.
Passenger shop: Henry Neal and +. \.
Wintermeyer
Freight shop: Geo Read and W. c.
Nycum.
Smith shop: Lynch Gardner anG p. c.
planning mill: j. W. Cook ana $. :.
See.
Foundry: J. w. Frawley and a. w.
Lescure.
Yard: y. l.. Calvert and II. d. Ear
heart.
Offices: j. l.. Reicharlt
Paint shop: w. j. Commings and
Henry Grosh.
Store house: Messrs. Miller and Jones.
Pattern shop: A. Urick and Sam Chris.
tiau.
Core shop: o. f. Falls and p. J. Rider.
Engineers: Geo German and Michael
Fox.
Fircmen: +. l.. Bell and j. H. Vest.
Brakemen: j. d. Bnrk and Frank
Peters.
West End round house: Walter Kerlin
and Harry Jones.
East liud round house: Il. l.. Rush and
p. McEldowny
West End repair line: g. r. Elliott and
Harry Groves.
Genera. offices: james Metals and w.
b. Moss
On motion of J. NJ O'Bren, this com
mittee was also instructed to wait on
Major Sands and lay the matter of the
garnishee business before him. explaining
why it will work great hardshps on the
employees if tie garnishec order signed ty
himself is not in some way modified, and
to try and prevail on him to so modify
the recent order ms to not have worthy
men discharged who are garnishced be-
cause they can't pay their debts.
Mr.. O'Bricn also paid II high tribute to
Major Sands.