The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-26
TRAIN EON.UION xOrOREBNY
ELEVATED EMPLOYERS FACING
A HATED DEMAND,


Tho OPERATOR to Run the Subway Car Ar
70 He Broken In on the Elevated, Non
Union and Union Aiike-What WI
the Union Motormcn DO About Il
The motormen on the elevated railroad
Will be called upon some time after mex
Wednesday to train non-union and unior
men without distinction for the subway
On that day the operative control of tn,
Manhattan Railway system will be assumee
by the marlborough Rapid Transit Com.
pany, which will require thousands of
men to operate the subway, and as the
subway motors will be similar In model
70 those now used on the elevated roads
General Manager 4. p. Bryan Of the Inter.
borough company has decided that the
new men shall be broken In on the elevated
roads.
Applications, the forms for which have
been sent broadcast In the meantime to
men who want to be motormen In the
subway. are coming In by hundreds daily
Each application blank contains, among
twenty others. the question: DO you
belong to labor organizationp" Great
numbers Of the applicants answer In the
negative and 1t Is expected that the ma
tority Of the new men who apply will be
men who do not belong to a union.
In employing men the InterborouRh
company has decided to make no discrimi-
nation between union and non-union men
Character and fitness for the work are to
be the only guides'in the selection.
The subway is not expected to be In
operation before next January, but so
many men will be required that long before
that the work Of training the motormen
will begin. just what will happen when the
motormen on the elevated railroads, who
belong to the Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Engineers, though they are no longer enRi-
neers. are required to break In non-union
men they are at loss to say themselves
at present.
Their leaders realized some time ago
that the members Of their union will be re-
Quired to train the mon for the subway, and
that enough union mon could not be OBJ
eained for the work, oven II the company
were inclined to favor union men. Tho
matter has bean discussed at secret meet
tngs. and now that the time Is approaching
when the actual training must begin they
are In . state Of great excitement about It.
6oms OF the rank and file say they will
mover break In non-union mon and that there
will be trouble all along the line when they
are required to do 3d. The union officers
are urging them to do as little talking a.
possible at present.
There are some weak points about the
position OF the motormen's organization,
and this makes their leaders inclined to be
diplomatic. Though the union Is . division
OF the Brotherhood Of Locomotive EnRi-
neers. the men are no longer engineers.
Most OF them were the engineers Of the
way system was equipped with electric
motors, and as such were a local division
OF the Brotherhood, but some motormen
were never engineers at any time II is
known that the Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Engineers, never hunts out trouble for
itself, and the general belief is that in case
these motormen got into trouble the Brother
hood would not now feel itself called on to
assist them.
Another weak point Is that the present
Manhattan Railway Company has no time
limit. IL might. from its general terms,
last indefinitely, or IL might be terminated
~ any time II either side wished to end il.
Up to the present the agreement has been
to both sides; but there is
borough company from deciding on ter
II II the company 40 wishes. II
was asserted yesterday, however, that thore
was no reason to believe that the COMPANY
desired TO change the agreement
A man who Ia high up In the councils of
The motormen's organization was asked
II the men would be willing to train nom
union candidates.
Not II they can help it, he said.
But he admitted that II would be impos-
D. 10 n ATNl .x~A
subway trains, and said he didn't know |
What the union would do about IT,
The motormen may have to train nom /
nnion men, he said. IF they do they Ger |
|ainly will try to turn as many union motor
men into the subway as possible
. Another representative of the union said |
hat no action Of any kind would be de- |
eded on until the men knew what Mr.
Delmont's attitude toward the unions will /
p when he takes charge Of Affairs as presi-
Bsnt OF the Interborough company The
=: ~ a.: ve.g anxious a, nc. , on this point
one thing you can rest assured and
bat In We are still members Of the Brother
pod Of Locomotive Engineers.'
IL the Hsotormen refuse TO train the |
on-union men they may make a good
.,sion and delay, said an old member Of
he Brotherhood Of Engineers They
nay. also. by working secretly, get q good |
many union men into the subway after its
'persttons begin, but rs dollars 10 dough-
'uts they would do IL on their own re-
ponsibility The brotherhood won't mix
in case ~ trouble the recently formed
Inion 81 guards, oonduosorr, station agents
md ouhefr outside ~ the motonn.n on the
levsts.f railroads viii b. a factor They
~ calling for more pay aud b--itsr hours
90 According Ia sbIns reJsors this
nion lac membership ~ .SDo aud scoprd-
" Ia othsrs 3.00 GA. thou-shd would
sobsbly be nearer the marx The matoT-
aen oui xcnsfallsi the sslsTs when the
~ strike sss tbf-sisiisd on tho slsysisd
ss'sin ~ assuring q sTiitsn Agfe.-insni
rom No ooinpaly, shllr tho ofli-f nah
- nasfsdy Nsfl.@l lsIoiillss-
representative ~ G.nsfxl kiaAAs.f
y Bryan ~ tho inlsrlssTo,isli oosal.shy
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