Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-15

Railroad, has been officially called to
the attention of the undersigned and
message referred to the general COM
mittee of our brotherhood represent
ing the entire brotherhood of the
pennsylvania, Railroad lines east now
in session at Philadelphia for consid-
Grafton and action.
This committee, composed of duly
accredited and legal representatives of
the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
and constitutionally assembled, has
asked that you be notified as follows:
I'VE wish it to be thoroughly
understood by all members of this
organization that any action such
as outlined in your message,
taken by yourself and others, can
not and will not be considered as
organization action, but as the
action of individuals, individually
and collectively.
Further. that any action taken
by you at meeting of the kind
described in your message is not
even binding upon individuals who
participated at such a meeting,
and the use OF your organization
title in signing the message is not
sanctioned or approved by us.
I'VE further wish to state that
this organization respects the open
shop and that this brotherhood
neither believes in nor approves
of a sympathy strike.
"A copy of this letter has been for
warded to President Lee and General
Manager Long and copy also will be
forwarded to the secretaries of all
lodges on our system.
III. A. ENOCHS,
General Chairman"
Pierce is Cheered
President w. II. Pierce, of the
Brotherhood of Federated Railway
Employees, told his men at headquar-
ters that he had done with three
hours sleep in order to get to Harris
burg and tell them of the good news
from Sunbury. Cheer after cheer fol-
lowed a statement from President
1900 men in the Packard Theater at
Sunbury last night. "They were not
all Federated men, either" said Presi-
dent Pierce. Continuing Mr., Pierce
said: There will be more doing in
Sunbury to-day and tonight. Things
always change when the people get
the true facts"
With a view to rallying transpor-
ia tion brotherhood men to their cause
President Pierce will visit Altoona to-
night. He left for Altoona at 2.45
o'clock this afternoon. Tile meeting
at West Fairview last night, in the
words of one of the local Federated
officials, was a corker." The town
square was crowded. The next big
meeting in the interest of the strikers
will be in Harrisburg on Sunday even
ing at the Colonial Theater. Circu-
lars were posted to-day and distributed
among the members of the Federated
body and to the men as they came
from work at the Pennsylvania Rail-
road shops this afternoon. telling of
this meeting. The poster states that
willis II. Pierce and Eugene V.
Debs. two of Americas foremost rail-
road leaders, typifying the most ad-
vanced thought in the labor world and
recognized as such by eminent political
economists. will lecture respectively on
Fundamental Aspects of Solidarity
and Industrial Unionism' and The
Status of Railroads and Their EN-
ployes'."
Railroads Views
Officials of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company to-day issued this state
ment:
"In order that the public may un-
derstand the true situation with re-
gard to the manner in which the reso-
luton passed at the meeting held by
Mr.. Pierce on Wednesday evening,
May 13, the letters from the brother
hood heads are called to their atten-
ton, indicating, first, that the reso-
luton passed at that meeting was not
in any sense the act of the transpor-