The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-14
CANNOT SATISFY THE
 DEMANDS OF RIREMEN
STATEMENT MADE TO-
 DAY BY CONSOLIDATED.

Road Indifferent in Regard to Em-
 ployes' Membership in Labor organi-
 zation-History of Present Trouble
 in Detail-Under Agreement of Com
 pany With All Its Engineers, EacA
 One Can Appear in Person to Present
 Case--No Objection to Labor organi-
 xatsons.
 The following statement was given out last night by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad com pany:
 The New York New Haven and Hart
 ford Railroad Company.
 New Haven, Conn, Feb. lS, 1905.
 The management of the company, aft CT nearly eight months of patient and exhaustive effort to satisfy the demands of the adjustment committee of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Bremen. and having failed to do So, feels that it is proper that the public and each enl- ploye in the train service of the com pany should have 8 clear statement from tie company's standpoint of this situation so that there may be no miS4s apprehension as to the company's post ton.
 The management of this company has absolutely no objection to labor organ izations, if properly conducted, and has absolutely no objection to any employe belonging to any labor organization.
 The management of this company has absolutely no objection to any empIoye being a non-union man.
 The management of this company is absolutely indifferent as to whether an emloye belongs or does not belong to any labor organization. z The management of this company has no agreement made with any labor or ganlzation. It has agreements with all of it's employees in engine and train ser- vice.
 In the making of such agreements the class of labor particularly involved at the time an agreement is made chooses a committee for the purpose of negoti- ating an agreement with the officials of the company. The members of such d committee naturally are chosen from the organization which has the major ity of members in the class of labor represented.
 When an agreement has been reached between the officers of the company and such an adjustment committee it is sre- duced to writing, or printed, but even when both the officers and the cornnlit- tee feel that every point that could possibly arise has been covered it i'm Nariably turns out that there are a number of cases arise of a nature which had not been anticipated, which neces Esitates the committee and the ofiicials such matters. When sufficient changes Z have been made in an existing agree. ment to warrant such action a new |agreennent is usually made and the rtll- ings Interpretations or changes agreed upon since the signing of the previou are incorporated in such new agreement.
 On account Of the frequency with which adjustment committees have tt meet the officers of the company for the purpose of obtaining rulings etc, as outlined above, it has become custoan- ary for employees who have been disci- plined, and, in their opinion, too severe ly when taking an appeal from the de- |cision of the officer applying the disci- pline to a higher officer, to lay his case before the adjustment committee of the class of labor to which he bolngs and to ask that the adjustment committee appear before the higher official as 'ad- vocates of the employe who has been disciplined.
 In this manner locomotive engineers employed by the company who have been disciplined when desiring to take | an appeal, have been in the habit of tplacing their cases before the engineers adjustment committee, who, if it deem ed the case 9 proper one to take ups