The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-03
RAILROAD news.
President Ramsey Nay Win His
Fight.
Wabash Men Seem to Be OPP
posed to Strike.
ACTION AT DECATUR.
ACTION AT DECATUR.
Men Sign a Paper Expressing
DisapprOval of Strike.
Springfield Vote Shows Over
wheIming Strike Opposition.

President Ramsey of the Wabash rail-
road has issued abatement defining the
company's position in relation to the
poll taken by the trainmen and other
employees of the Wabash system for or
against a strike to secure an advance in
wages OF Il and Is per cent on the
January, 1902 schedule 1t is accom-
panied by q schedule of compensation
which provides that the trainmen on
the Wabash west of the Mississippi riv-
er after March 1 shall receive about 8
per cent more per month on runs of
over 1000 miles than those in the ser
vice east of the river This, Mr.. Ram
sey explains, on the ground of the Well
known fact that all eastern tariffs are
on a much lower basis than western tar
IFS and that east of the Mississippi the
Wabash is in competition with eastern
lines
G. H. Wilkins, grand senior conductor
of the Order of Railway Conductors.
said:
In all y men were delegated by the
general officers of the three orders in
terested to poll the vote as to whether
demand for - to Is per cent increase
in wages was refused by President
ramsey
ne men VIII tOl4tG 10 uIAll LAG CuJHE
vote has been very carefully counted
by the committee in secret session.
Then President Ramsey VIII probably
be notified by letter We viii undOubt-
eddy give him reasonable time in which
TO reply.
Springfield. HI. March S.-The poll OF
the Wabash trainmen having their
headquarters in Springfield has been
completed, and out of 1o0 votes 80 We're
against striking.
1t is stated that a poll of majority OF
the trainmen having their headquarters
in Decatur showed an equally large per
cent against striking
1t is believed that the result on the
eastern and middle divisions Will be
against a strike
Decatur. III. March 3-The threaten
ed strike on the Wabash railway sys-
tenn assumed Il new phase in Decatur
Saturday evening. when a committee
representing two-thirds Of the locomo-
tive hremen on the middle division OF
the road called upon superintendent
Robertson at his office and formally
presented written protest against the
strike proposition. The paper states
that the men have no grievance. that
they appreciate the uniform courteous
treatment they have received at the
hands OF the officials, and that they are
satisfied with the 2resent schedule OF
wages. The Wabash men at this point
are generally satisfied with the present
conditions, and remembering the bad
results of the strike Of 1894, they look
with disfavor on any hasty action.
The vote of the firemen a@ainst the
strike proposition can not fail to have
its influence toward causing the men IN
the other departments of the service to
move slowly. Decatur business interests
would be seriously affected by anything
like d strike, and it is believed that the
better judgment of the coOl-headei and
1Gr-q1 n111r1I0Nac ri a l 1i1 fnErlf her.
with the willingness of President Ram
sey to do the right thing wherever j
just grievance exists, will avert tieup
of the road for any length of time.