Denver labor bulletin., 1916-04-08

meeting that his union would always
play Il square game, this month left a
regular position and had the colossal gall
to go over and ask striker to give him
his lamp so that he might scab' on him.
A Deep Laid Conspiracy.
Beyond all this on the Wabash is a
deep laid conspiracy that reaches in its
ramifications beyond the Switchmen who
are on strike. The treachery OF the b.
r. T. is putting a spoke in the wheel
OF progress in an effort to destroy the
eight-ho movement.
This organization (the Switchmen) in
1905 and 1906, and several times since,
including May last, in our convention,
unanimously passed a resolution in ia.
vor of an cight-ho day for ten hours
pay and time and n half for overtime.
And il is well known that we stand for
the eight hour day. How ioes our rec
ord dovetail and fit in with their move
ment if they undermine the switchmen :!
I'm 1855 on the % members of the
b. r. T. piloted 'scab engineers over the
road and assisted 'scab' firemen. Some
of the men are living today who were
scabbing' at that time. The switch
mems organization was called on to as
sist the engineers and fircmen and it
nobly responded to that call.
Remember this: That set OF men
who will quit their jobs in the city of
Chicago at this time, where the roads
are short handed in their particular
lines, and 90 'scabbing' is liable TO take
better Jobs. In Chicago B. X. r. men
are working under guns and policemen
and they are working for the old fcalc.
Aid Trainmen in Colorado.
ITS very seldom the b. r. r. has
strike. But in 1907 it had strike IN
the Colorado & Southern in Denver. our
men, in spite of the dirty treatment
given them by the b. r. r, walked off
the job. The company had to pay ten
dollars day in gold and board to each
strikebreaker there, while he-e the B. r.
r. men are 'scabbing' on the Switchmcn
for 30 cents an hour-they are no. only
scabbing' on the Swiichmc;l but 'fcab-
bing' on the strikebrcakrrs as we'll.
"If you should smoke these men out Of
their position they will say to you that
they are protecting their contracts.
1--WE can go back for thirty years and
there never was a time in the history OF
the Switchmen's organization where we
ever received reduction of wages when
we were organized. and this cannot be
said of the b. r. T.
Eberling's Direct Charge.
''They have now got out little circu
lar signed Committee 1t says it does
not know where the Switchmen are
drifting to and it would appear that it
was coming from our side. But they will
not print the names to the statements
they make for they can't substantiatc
them. j have got out little pamphlet
where ] show fifteen places or more
where the b. r. T. has 'scabbed.' / sign
my name to it and if they want TO they
can hale me into court and ] will prove
every statement made in that pamphlet
MANY of these men who are on strike
worked at the business for twenty or
thirty years. They are on strike because
the general manager of the Wabash
made contract with the B. r. T. To
yoke the men down to work for less
than they were receiving"
The Chicago Federation of Labor has
unanimously passed resolution uphold.
ing the Switchmen and condemning the
tactics of the B. r. t. in that city.