Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-23
Part Of the Engineers will Also Suspend
Work
TO CONTRACT WITH ENGINEERS
FirsmSn Wish to Control Members Whs
Have Been Promoted.
NEW YORK YARDNEN WILL NOT GO OUT
Agreement Reached whereby Differ
ence of One Cent Per Hour is to
BE Submitted to AFbi-
tration.

PEORIA, Ill, Dec. 22.-Grand Master
John Hanrahan Of the Brotherhood Of Lo-
comotive Firemen and Engineers tonight
Issued an ultimatum to r. II. Hartman,
president and chairman of the executive
committee Of the Southern Pacific railroad
notifying him that the engineers and fire.
men Of the road will strike at o'clock on
Sunday afternoon. In his ultimatum Mr.
Hanrahan says: "Eighty-hve per cent Of
the switch engineers on the Sunset Route
are members OF this organization and a
considerable number of engineers I'm the
road service are also members, and they,
with practically every locomotive fireman
in the service, are determined that your
company shall not force them to withdraw
from this organization and join the Brother
hood Of Locomotive Engineers in order to
have their grievances adjusted Every Of
fetal of the company IS thoroughly IA
milar with all the details Of this matter
and It may be that there is some Interior
purpose on their part in bringing about
this strike"
From information received at the grand
lodge offices Of the brotherhood here it
was said that nearly 5000 men will be af-
fected by the order to strike, which was
| issued after the system had been polled
and the Southern Pacific officials had re-
fused to accept the offer Of the brother
hood to submit differences to arbitration.
| Situation on Atlantic System.
! HOUSTON, Tex, Dec. 22.-At midnight
tomorrow the members of the brotherhood
| of Locomotive Firemen will withdraw from
! the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio
| the Texas & New Orleans and Morgan's
! Louisiana & Texas the Iberia & Vermilor
/ and the Louisiana Western roads, COM
prising the Atlantic system of the Southern
Pacific company This action is a result
| of vote just completed. The differences
arose last May, when the Brotherhood OF
! Locomotive Engineers secured from the
management of the roads an agreement
that the grievances of all engineers should
be handled by that organization. The
motherhood of Locomotive Firemen con
tended that many of its members were en-
gineers and did not belong to the engi
neers' organization, the latter could no
properly present their grievances, but tina
the iremen should handle all matters per
tanning to the membership, whether In ref
erence to flremen or engineers. The man
agement declined to abrogate its agree
ment with the engineers, contending tina
the differences between the engineers anC
firemen should be settled by them. Abou
400 men will be affected by the order
Timothy Shea, second vice grand maste
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men, is in the city in charge OF the in
terests Of the fremen. He has given on
no statement since the decision has beei
arrived at.
YRrdmen VIII Not strike.
NEW YORK, Dec Pit was announces
late tonight that the New York gardiner
and railway officials had agreed to submi
the difference Of I cent between the offe
Il 90 u
men to arbitration. Meantime the rela
tions between the railroads and employe
will continue as before.
There will be no holiday strike of railroat
yardmen in this city. This much was mad
known tonight after a conference betweel
railroad officials and representatives of tn
employees. who recently demanded an in
crease Of cents an hour in wages, coupling
with the demand a threat to stop wor
under the old schedule today.
The roads had offered an increase o
4 cents an hour and the Pennsylvania roa
, further agreed to make any additional ad
! vance to which the other roads woul
: agree. This was not satisfactory to tn
yardmen who issued an ultimatum TO tn
roads, stating that unless the increase G
, 5 cents was conceded the men would strik
today.
This was the situation when Gran
Master p. II. Morrissey OF the Brotherhoo
OF Railway Trainmen went into conferenc
, with the general managers OF the eigh
, roads involved and the grievance commit
, tees Of the several yard crews The confer
ence continued until late tonight. eve
, after an agreement had been announced
This joint statement was given out:
Negotiations between the New Yor
, harbOr yardmeH and the managers resulte
| In a satisfactory adjustment OF matter
under discussion and the best OF good fee
. ing prevails, the men and the officers wish
ing each other upon adjournment merr
Christmas and happy new year.
GOIdheId Leases Idle.
GOLDFIELD, Nevada, Dec. 2.-Ther
were no further developments in th
miners strike for IS wages, with the exceI
tion that nearly all the leases, apparent
by mutual agreement, stopped work tn
morning. This brings about practically
complete cessation of mining operation
= The famous Hayes-Monette, Frances, No
. hawk and several other leases on II
Mohawk ground are working night an
=, day. They have only seventeen days
. | operate and a shut down would mean
= heavy loss. They are paying the So wag'
TO their shoyelers and all other employees.
!