The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-03-04

where foremen struck for $50. 90 a month
and laborers for $50 a day. They were
Ioffered 5000 a day to return to work.
Their replies were, W. will not work
flor $4,000 a day until the company
Imakes az honorable settlement with our
/ have been told that
seven thousand non-union men were EN-
tployed on ABOUT n thousand miles of
1.-THE system during the strike a period
Iof three months. and that part OF the
troad was unmanre ed at the time the set
Element was effected. Instead OF the
strikers being frightened back TO work
10y the appearance of non-union men,
they converted them TO their way of
thinking and caused them to leave the
service of the company.
] embers guilty Of either OF the fol-
lowing o1enses will be expelled from the
Brotherhood:
First. Those convicted Of crime in
lconnaction with the strike.
Second. Those accepting employment
with the company during the strike.
Third. Those leaving the positions
they held when the strike. was ordered
land taking places deserted by strikers.
Fourth. Those making individual set
Elements by accepting increased wages
and influencing their weaker (but more
lhonorable) brothers TO defeat them
iselves by returning to work.
- q oAiAo VI oAd IL lAlouA-
led by the Brotherhood against partial
disability. total disability and death
lat a cost of $1.00 a month on 81, 900,
Iwho could not procure insurance from
lany other insuI company or socie-
lty doing insurance business, and 1t
would be inhuman to deprive their fam
lilies of the protection guaranteed by the
brotherhood without hey are guilty Of
lsome OF the above offenses; therefore,
Those who ordered the strike and failed
Ito suspend work. and those who sus-
Ipended work but returned before the
lstrike was declared off, not guilty OF
lany Of the above o~ffenses, will be per-
United to continue their membership In
the Brotherhood.
Strikes. like wars, seem to be neces-
Isary to produce character n manhood,
and to promote justice. Those who
have made sacrifices and may De re-
lQuired to suffer temporary ~inconve
Inience on account of the strike should
not regret it. 1 consider the few dol
lars expended and the sacrifices made
insignificant when compared with the
value of the chapter added to the his
tory of your organization. In the flu
ture it will be worth thousands and pos
lsibly millions of dollars to your craft.
1t should not be said by any one thai
the officials of the Atlantic Coast Line
Railway Company defeated their Main
ltainance of Way Employees. Your com
lmittee not being able to obtain increas-
led wages n improved conditions OF
service for you at the present time is
ldue to the ignorance and cowardice Of
the majority Of the employees who or
Idered the strike. Some Of them nc
doubt being destitute of honor, took
advantage of the situation and Of the
company. and sold themselves for a few
dollars more per month tina they were
receiving previous to the. time the sus-
pension of work took effect, but in mosI
leases those who deserted their Gauss
lare objects of pity.
It is to be regretted that human life
has been sacrificed on account of the
differences between the Atlantic Coast
Lime Railway Company and it's Main.
Itenance of Way Employees. We have
lonly heard Of one man being instantly
killed. L. A. Murray, foreman at Lam
bert. Ga He voted to strike and re.
fused to go out, but that did not justify
the taking of his life. We have done
Jail, and will continue to do all we Cal
Ito assist the civil authorities in captur-
ling and Furnishing the cowardly assaS.
lsin who shot Murray from ambush.
The majority OF the Maintenance O.
WAY Employees who ordered the suspen
lsion of work have gone back on theil
words, refused to vote to continue the
Istrike. returned to work and made il
Impossible for your committee to pro.
icure increased wages and improved con-
EDITIONS of service for o at the present
thine, therefore the strike that tool
~Ieffect at noon on the 18th of February
1904. is hereby declared off.
Yours Fraternally,
JOHN T WILSON,
President.
j. E. BLIZZARD,
General Chairman