The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-18
SECTION MEN
TO ORGANIZE
National Union of Railway
Trackmen Is Its Name.
MISSOURI PAC. EMPLOYEES
In Wichita viii Organize a
Local Union in a Few Days.
MISSOURI PAC. EMPLOYEES

The Missouri Pacific section men with
headquarters in this city, at an early
date will organize local union OF the
National Union of Railway Trackmen.
which has just been chartered by the
state charter board. The national union
will have its headquarters in Fort Scott
for the present, and il was organized by
the section men of the Missouri Pacific
system IN Kansas and Missouri, and it is
said that a very thorough organization
has been perfected on every line of the
system in the two states and steps have
been taken 70 organize the men of the
other lines
The trac6BaeR employed by the Mis-
souri, Pacific with headquarters in this
city viii number close TO thirty persons
and possibly more, and this number will
give the new order big stronghold
Nearly an equal number are employed by
the Santa Fe, and it is expected that the
total membership in Wichita will num-
Der close TO eighty persons.
The Missouri Pacific has a large num-
here besides those of three branches run
ming out OF this city. The local tracknen
had a hand in the organization of the
union, although none of them appear in
the list of incorporators. This is the first
organization of the kind in the United
States and national organization en-
bracing trackmen in every section is TO
be made Of it. AS fast as arrangements
can be completed the national organiza-
ton will furnish the particulars TO the
section men of every line.
The first local union to be organized
will be the one in this city, which is ex-
pected to be started within week. The
organization is based on the same gener-
al plan as the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen and the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers and also the Firemen.
1t is a thorough railroad organization
and it is hoped in time TO have it in the
same rank as the other well known rail-
road organizations.
The objects of the union, as given in
its charter. are Ito organize and enroll
in its membership the railway trsckmen
of the United States; to organize local
lodges of the order in any part Of the
United States, and TO issue a charter to
each local lodge, and provide for its gov
eminent; to provide for an official pub
LEGATION and other printed matter for the
purpose of furnishing its members with
correct information relating to the con-
dition of the order. and such other mat
tiers as will promote the best interests of
it's members; to require all members to
faithfully and honestly perform their du-
ties toward their employers: TO promote
and encourage harmony and friendship
between the trackmen and the railway
companies: 10 assist its members in OBJ
tanning the highest wages consistent with
the good of all concerned; to obtain short
er hours of work and better conditions:
TO prevent strikes. boycotts and black
listing; to secure the passage and en-
forcement of such laws as will benefit its
members; to do and perform any act nee
essary and incidental 20 the foregoing.
and not in conflict with the laws Of the
country. by the use OF legitimate business
methods"