The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-10-01
RAILROAD MEN OR.
QANIZE TO PARTTC-
IPATE IN POLITICS
Representatives Of Over
Three Hundred Thousand
Employees Decide on Con-
certed Action at Polls.
RESOLUTIONS FOR
HIGH FREIGHT RATE

New York, Sept. 30.--For the first
time In the history of railway unions,
members and delegates representing
30s,000 men Of the four great divisions
Of railway employees in the east voted
unanimously at n meeting here today
to take concerted action In national and
state politics.
"The proper place to settle questions
affecting labor 10 at the ballot box"
said Warren s. Stone Of Cleveland, o.,
grand chief of the Brotherhood of Lo.
eomotive Engineers.
"whatever your political amliations,
do not let party lines blind you to your
true interests or prevent you from doing
what you think is best and right. See
that the men you vote for stand for
the right principles, regardless of party,
and support those men who meet the
requirements, and you will not only be
doing the best for yourselves, but for
the public.
"This In not a political move at all,
a. Is generally understood, but u move
to get away from the old lines Of par.
tisan politics"
In pursuance Of tins plan, the meet.
ing voted to send out series Of eight
questions to state and national csndi.
dates, particularly to candidates for
the legislature and house Of representa-.
sivss asking for n definition Of their at.
titude on the universal adoption Of
safety appliances and an employers lia'
bnity lsw--whsre such does not already
sxist---eompany pensions for supsran.
mated employers, hours of labor and
other matters Of kindred interest. =
This catechism will be drafted by
W. @. Lee, president Of the Brotherho ood
Of Railway Trainmen, and by A. B.
Gsrretson, president of the Order OF
Railway Conductors, and by them dis.
tributed to all executive officers of sub,
ordinate unions and locals.
There were three thousand members
and delegates to the meeting today rep
resenting the Brotherhood Of Railway
Trainmen, the Brotherhood Of Locomo
tive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen and Enginemen, and the
Order Of Railway Conductors. They me,
by announcement to define their atti
tude toward the application of railways
now pending before the interstate com
msrce commission, for permission to in
crease rates, and as had been expected
they passed resolutions favoring an in
crease.
II was decided that "this representa-
tive meeting of the railway brother
hoods request our chief executives q
appear before the interstate commerce
commission urging the pending rate
hearing and state our ease and support
the proposals reasonably to increase the
existing rates"
The legislative board of the Brother
hood Of Engineers OF Pennsylvania rep
ressnting 10000 engineers, which re
Gently concluded sessions in Harrisburg
Pa, attended in a body and reporte,
resolutions which IL WAS claimed typi
aed the attitude on the rate question
Of railway employees in general, as OK
pressed in many other scattered resolu
tions.
In q letter to NJ. Flannery, chair
man OF tho executive committee Of tn,
engineers at Buffalo, Chief Stone ex
presses himself in thorough sympath!
with the movement.
"one thing Ia sure" he writes, at
the railroads are to continue to exist
some way must 10 found to meet tn
constantly increasing demand on thei
gross earnings"