The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-03
|lIlR FOss TO
i STRIKE BY LAW
n Of Massachusetts,
latter to Employees
New Haven Road.
5 UNION LEADERS
Is Special Session of
.h,re to Take Action
Trouble Comes.
UNION LEADERS

- nct o.@Should a strike
and firemen on the New
payen g. Hartford railroad
I; eoysrnor Foss will ask for
Ion of the Massachusetts
& enact laws TO prohibit
Il railway employees within
.rreslth. Such Is the dec
:srtsined in a letter which
ror sent tonight to officers of
ps,bood Of Locomotive En-
"a the Brotherhood Of Loco
ssmen and Enginemen at
rsS' Conn. The letter says
-, coysrnor has been informed
smbers Of the two brother.
voting on the question of
strike. A strike, it adds,
A grave concern to the peo-
.ssebusetts, as it would mean
rsrs Of the wheels of indus
4 employment to hundreds
ssss Of laborers, interference
4 regular supply of food and
a consequent high death rate
rslidH and infants.
People Affected.
I Informed that the principal
n issue between your or
ID and the New Haven rail-
Be- governor continues, sis
lie promotion Of employees
assignment OF duties shall be
4 yolsly by the rnle Of seniori-
||tiher fitness rs we'll as length
a shall be taken into consider
Without looking at the matter
. Handpoint OF either the rail
ITS employees, I desire to re-
b that this question is one
Tally affects the people Of
|nsstts and, indeed, Of all New
1!icn and the assignment OF
iesurding to seniority without
b fitness lower the efficiency Of
b force, make it impossible for
had 10 maintain discipline, and
|be ability Of the railroad TO
+ public,
Out Evils.
real Issue is not between the
and lis employees. but between
ploTees and the people of this
'realth; aud the question Is
he lives of the people shall be
10 jeopardy by the maintenance
'tniohty rule. and whether, in
p eltace this rule, our people
1buit 70 the evils incident 10 a
strike.
PAS strike is declared, it will
~ duty to take such measures
L'hln my power to protect the
i'fpis commonwealth. To that
1a strike is called. | shall ask
'nl to join ME in summoning a
elon Of the legislature for the
~ enacsing laws which, after
y eaeetive remedies for nil
. o. employees, shall prohibit
J, st1kes of railroad operatives
within the commonwealth.
setlon the laws Of other coun-
pig useful precedents, and pub.
nant IN this commonwealth will
maud the enactment OF similar
'te to Strike.
Conn. Oct 2-Ofhcials
S%p.nernood of Locomotive EnE-
\ 1WLneht that they had not vet
DYernor Foss's letter and
a dsSnned csd 70 discuss II. Assist
= Sniet L. l., Grifhng arrived
sonlglit and tomorrow will
suake ballots that have been
lne New Haven system I'm the
ma, "de bdlu, lDBitlEla
,sisna sn would vote 10 strike By an
salng majority.
IN nj MOI necessarily mean that
~, ~ slhsc. said Chairman f.. s.
n means that the men favor
mslr contentious cannot be
i % olncr way"
Il "i,Inng and Mr.. Evans were
ueclaring that there Is no
on immediate strike. II the
!" strike, the next step VIII!
se ,sl, Tor further conferences
! aIUaa sa, officials in another en-
satisfactorily adjust the diff
j aa sa management pointed out
i,,,Sso sso that there would be no
m ner conferences. where the
2 satety alone was the issue"