Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-02-04

SuACo6OS ILL.,, GU
Because the Brotherhood of Locomo-
Give Engineers and the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen and Engine
men have been making an attempt to
raise the standard of wages and work
ing conditions for negro fremen in
the South, a secret propaganda has
been started by some of the power ta.
Western railroads to discredit brother
hood officials and so to twist the is.
sue as to make it appear that the
brotherhoods are endeavoring to GUST
negro fremen instead of help them.
Within the last week a powerful
and widespread publicity campaign
has been inaugurateds by the confer.
ence committee Of managers in West
ern territory and virtually every
newspaper and periodical in the Mis-
sissippi Valley, Rocky Mountain and
Pacific Coast states has been bonn
barded with printed sheets purporting
toS reproduce dialogue and testimony
from the Western wage hearing at
Chicago refleeting on the judgment
and good will of such men as Warren
S. Stone, grand chief of the en-
gineers' brotherhood, William S.. Car
ter, head of the. firemen's brother.
hood, and their ce-workers.
The brotherhood officials have for
many years made it a practice when
higher wages or amelioration of work;
ing conditions were awarded tc'
brotherhood members the ! same
should apply :. to all workers in the.
craft without regard to organization
fealty. In this way non-members OF
the firemen's and engineers brother
hoods have participated in the bene
fits Of various awards. =
president Carter having discovered
that James M. Sheean, counsel for
the railroad companies, recently got
into the arbitration hearing record q
notice that the firemen on the Yazoc
and Mississippi Valley Railroad were
exempt from participating in any pos
rfble award made in the present con-
foversy, informed the Board Wednes-
,ay that he had in his pocket a petit
ion from 1872 firemen on that road
skiing that they be included. Prac-
fcally all of these firemen, if not all,
re negroes, Mr.. Cater said, and he
made it. plain that at no time had the
btotherhoods indicated to, the Western
abroad companies desire to exempt
he Y. & M. v. firemen from any bene-
its the present movement might |
BRING. Whereupon Attorney Sheean
made spirited speech in which he
accused the brotherhoods of secret
effort, to root them out Of their jobs
10 that there would not be the oppor-~
unity to do what is fully understood !
not to mean taking care of the fire
men upon that road, but to deprive the
iremen on that road of their present
obs" When Mr. Sheean said them
le referred to the negro firemen in
he South. .>t
President Carter explained to the h
,oard in. detail that both the en-
,ineers' and firemen's brotherhoods
lad been attempting for many years
j spread any beneficial results the
might obtain through
to workmen outside Of
beir ranks. He said It was the same
L this instance.
On Thursday ME- Carter made the
Growing proposal, which was not ac-
apted. to the conference committee of
Western Railroad managers:
II hereby propose to counsel for the
silyoads to Join with me in petition
!, the oficials Of the Illinois Central
abroad and the oficisls q the Yasoo
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