The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-11
Against the Tree Hands Behind His Head

charged our Oldest and best men, Do
any OF you flatter yourselves that you
will escape? Don't you believe it.
Your turn will surely come.
- The roads business has been di-
verted 10 the A. K. & F. and the w &
7. is no longer in it. He has taken off
trains and left their crews idle. He
has reduced the shop force until there
isn't an engine nor car on the system
that's nit to run. Conductor Billy
Simms was killed and Jack Earl dis
charged because 16's tires were double
Hanged for the want of turning off.
and because one man can't keep tea
miles of track in repair In the last
three years thirty-two engineers, and
don't know how many conductors and
hagmen, have been discharged. and
Bill Joyce and his fireman killed at
Bryan s trestie because an engine truck
Journal burned off for the want of lu-
IRRIGATION. Such of US as still survive
have our pay held because, under the
old idiots tlundering management one
OF the finest properties in this country
has been filtered away. 1, for one.
don't propose to stand it any longer
not without a. protest, anyway think
we ought to send a committee to Mr..
Harnden and demand out. back pay
When ! sat down an enthusiastic
young brakeman IN the rear of the hall
shouted, I second the motion That
made them laugh, and set them at their
ease. We discussed the subject for an
hour. The radicals wanted TO tie nm
his old streak of iron rust good and
tight for him, right away. Their
counsel didn't prevail-it never does.
When the excitement cooled off a bit
old Ezra Bassford, engineer of the
steamboat train, called halt. You
boys are getting ratified, says he,
What good would it do we to strike.
even if We won2 The hull road amt
hardly worth a months pay, the shape
IL IN. now. What we want is to get
our money, and you'll never do that by
striking-'cause strikes always fail:
put that in your pipe and smoke it,
Now, continued the old man, earnestly.
every eye being fixed upon him, I pro-
pose that we appoint committeeman
I'm willing % serve on ito call on
the general manager and make de-
mand for our pay and a 10 per cent
raiser
How the boys yelled at that You
would have thought their troubles were
an over now. When the noise quieted
down a bit, Ezra continued:
What in time are you fellers boI-
lerin' about2 Don't think you're
agoin' to get it, do We? Never on vour
life, You make the demand for raise
so as to give him something to com
promise on. They never grant every
thing. You need to ask for about twice
as much as you expect to get, and then
you may get something. l don't saw
old Harnden will compromise. but let's
give him a chance to-
'Ezra's advice was so sensible that
but little argument Was required to
adopt it. A committee was quickly
elected. consisting Of me, as chairman.
old Ez' and a couple of conductors.
Next day, at 10 o'clock. We called on
MIR. Harnden. His private secretary
notified him that . committee of en-
plcyees were in waiting, and out he
came. He stood in the middle of the
anteroom, with his feet wide apart, and
his hands clasped under his coat tails
He surveyed us a moment, over his
speetacles, and then snapped out:
=" Well. what do you want?'
4 took a step in advance. Of the. 9TH