New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-29
OUT FOR N-UNION MEN.
ENGINEERS TAKE STAND.
ShpuLate Only Like Wages-Indorse
Demands for Subzcay Motormen.

delegates of the Brotherhood OF Locomotive
engineers, one OF the most powerful labor
ganlzations in the country. yesterday at meet
ing here took the stand that non-union men
nave as good right TO work union men. and
that they are perfectly willing to work with
union men, their only stipulation being that
non-union men shall receive the same wages as
members of the union.
M NJ. Clapp, of Division No. 1856 Jersey City.
said when the meeting was over:
We wish it to be distncly understood that the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers take the
stand that. our forefathers gave us all equal
rlghts' we nave no right to decide that we VIII
not work with non-union men, The Brother
mood or Locomotive Engineers or its members
as a body never said that they should work
with none but members of the brotherhood.
What we have insisted and will always insist
on is that the standard of union wages be OBJ
served all along whether the men be union or
non-unioa We hold that non-union man has
5 good a right TO work as a union man If he
gets the same wages.
The meeting, one of the best attended ever
held Il. this city by the engineers, took place in
Grand Central Palace. and attended by
fifteen hundred delegates, representing four
thousand engineers in local divisions within
radius Of five hundred miles of the city. The
demands Of Local No. 105. consisting OF the
motormen on the Manhattan elevated system.
which are now SO 80 a day for nine hours for
motoTmen on the subway, were indorsed. The
chief object Of the meeting, however, was to
consider what will he done by the engineers
when electricity takes the place of steam a
motive power the railroads.
1t is admitted that the rapid displacement of
steam rs motive power is causing the engi-
neers anxiety. In less than two years the New
York Central and the Pennsylvania railroads
expect to substitute electricity for steam on
parts Of their roads. The trains will then be
run by motormen and not by engineers. Other
roads are preparing TO equip trains with motors.
The meeting which started early in the
tng anc lasted all day, called to discuss
conditions that when the national convention
of the Brotherhood takes place in Memphis
Tenn, in 1906 the engineers will be prepared to
meet the new conditions as they devaop.
Warren s. Stone, Grand Chief of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, welcomed
with loud applause when ne appeared. This
his first appearance publicly here since he
elected Grand Chief.
The chairman of the meeting J. D
Woolsey of New-York Division No. 1O5. W
r. Marley of Division No. $50 New-Haven
vice-chairnan, and NJ NJ. Clapp. of Di-
vision No. 157, Jersey City, secretary. Speeches
We're made on electric trains succeeding steam
but would state what decision was ar
rived what the result of the meeting
so far as this subject was concerned.
A report made by ". L. Jencks, chief of
Local No 105 representing the Manhattan
Railroad nnotorInen. as TO the present conditions
and the subway trouble The local demands
that the subway motormen receive the same
wages the nIotormen the elevated trains
which are So 80 a day fer nine hours, as soon
as the subway trains are started. The inten-
ton of the Interborough Transit Company
10 pay So a day for the subway motormen for
ten hours work. The elevated motoruen have
agreement with the Interborough embodyln
their present wages and conditions which ex-
pires on September l.
Grand Chief Stone and Assistant Chief Hur-
ley discussed the general situation All spoke
in favor OF the dems nds of the motormen for
the subway. Grand chief Stone and Assistant
Chief Hurley will try to-day tomorrow to
have a conference with General Manager Bryan
Of the Interborough, and will use every effort
10 have the dispute settled amicably- They viii
report 70 the local. Before a strike can be or
bers of the local and be sanctioned by the grand
lodge. Some Of the motormen said that d strike
had actually been voted on by the local, so that
everything was cut and dried for the sanction
ment could not be reached
II was said that part Of the plan OF the motor
men here was organize all the motormen on
the Brooklyn elevated railroads and make
dav for all the motOrmen in The Bronx, Man
haitian and Brooklyn the elevated systems
II is known that for some time back the Man
haitian rnotormef. have been talking about the
contingency arising when in Of vacancies
on the elevated roads. subway motormen would
be put in their places
They fear that If this is done the company will
try gradually as men lose their positions by
the elevated system with men from the subway
at So a day.
Grand Chief Stone. in his speech, warned the
engineers against drunkenness.