The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-26
SOME ONE SMOKING UP
MINNEAPOLIS EVENING PAPER OUT
WITH A STRONG PIPE
STORY
A COLUMN WITHOUT A FACT

Absolute Denial of q Yarn to the
Effect That IA Representative of
the Great Nbyfhern, Was Employ
Ing Men to seFve as Special Po-
Hcemen-R dad Looking for
Nor Expecting Trouble.
Publication ina minneapolis afternoon
paper of yester1asa4o the effect that a
representative of2tlA secret service de-
partment of the saFeat Northern railroad
was employing haeISto serve as special
policemen on anna9int of threatened
strike of employessof the operating de-
partment of theSfoaa Is pronounced an
unqualified fabricatfdn by executive Of
ficials of the railway system. One of
the chief general officers of the road said
last night:
at is not true that the Great North
ern railway is Preparing for trouble 1t
is not true that any emissary or repre-
sentative of the company. or any de-
partment, Is now or has been employing
special police in Minneapolis or else
where. Neither is 1t true that the
trainmen's grievance committee is wait
ing for word from Great Northern Of
ficials as to when a conference may be
held. The situation isssinlply this: Ten
days ago that committee called and pre-
scented a. schedule for hours and pay
which the company rejected. Then the
company presented a schedule which
the committee in It's official capacity re-
jected, notifying US at the time that the
committee would submit the schedule
to a vote of the employees represented by
the committee and when the result was
known would return and tell us the re-
suit. 1t will require some time to get
this vote ard we have not heard from
the committee on any subject since that
time, and do not expect to hear from it
until the vote is completed"
"Is it true the company has been
sounding Individual employees concern
ing their views on the rejected sched-
ule?"
.It is not. -, The company has done
nothing further than take particular
pains to see that every employee has 3
correct copy of the schedule offered by
the company which is to be voted or by
the employees. We think they should
understand perfectly the schedule offered
by the company"
Fred Smith, of this city, chairman Of
the protective board of the Great North
ern Brotherhood Of Locomotive Firemen,
asked the G o b yesterday to say that
the statement which appeared in the
Minneapolis Times. Monday and credited
to him, was mainly a Misrepresentation
of facts He had said that the relations
of the firemen and the road were har-
monious and satisfactory. For the other
branches of the service Mr.. Smith did not
presume to speak. The story, like that
in the Minneapolis evening paper of last
night, was mainly '"pipe."
The Minneapolis story, which was sent
out from there by the Associated Press
yesterday, said that Timothy O'Meara
had been engaged to hire all the ex-
policemen he could get in Minneapolis
for the Great Northern. As a matter of
truth it is known that O'Meara was in
st. Paul a few days ago seeking a posi-
ton with the engineering department OF
the Great Northern road. He wanted to
go cut as a rod man, having learned, SO
he told a reporterdofst the G lob at the
time, that Chief Engineer Stevens was
about to send out a surveying party.
Which may or may not be the basis for
the whole yarn. I'm