St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-05-19
Great Northern
Men To Decide
Union HoOkup
GREAT NORTHERN EMPLOYEES
URGED TO AFFILIATE
WITH LOCAL SIC
By Special Correspondent

Dining Car Employees Union,
Local SIC, invoked the services of
a national mediation board on be-
half of the dining car employees
of the Great Northern. Railway
company in January, 1889, and a
hearing was held before the said
Board in Chicago on March Bird,
1889.
The reason for this invocation
was that Local SIG had succeeded
in getting and consolidating the
full cooperation of the dining car
employees of the following rail-
roads of the northwest territory,
namely: Chicago, st. Paul, Mime
apolis & Omaha railway company;
the Chicago, Minneapolis and
Salute st. Marie and the Northern
Pacific railway company. These
railway companies formed and do
form the nucleus of a dining car
organization Of this northwest ter
ritory known as Local SIG.
In July, 1888, the Joint Council
Of dining car employees unions
representing the railway depart
ment of Hotel and Restaurant En-
ployees, international Alliance and
Bartenders international League of
America sent Brother Ishmael p.
Flory to the st. Paul and Seattle
districts for the purpose of further
unifying these railway groups. 1t
was found that forces operating on
the Great Northern were against
such an afffliation. Therefore it
was necessary for Local SIC to in
woke the services of the national
Mediation Board for the purpose of
determining the rights of Local
SIC and the Great Northern asso-
citation as to representing the din
ing car employees on that line.
On Monday, May 18th, 1889, the
Joint Council of Dining Car En-
ployees Unions informed the Off
GERS of Local SIC that a national
mediator would be in st. Paul at
the St. Paul Hotel together with
Scion C. Bell of the Joint Council
for the purpose of determining
ways and means for an election to
be held beginning Monday, May
22nd, on the railroad property of
the Great Northern railroad among
the Great Northern dining car en-
ployees.
Local SIC wishes through this
means to express to the employees
of the dining car department of the
Great Northern Railway Company
that the opportunity is here pres
ent for them to decide once and
forever whether they shall join
their forces with a united and ma
tional program that is being spon-
sored by Local SIG in a regular,
legal, trade labor organization or
whether they will continue to be
dominated by company union.
The opportunity to determine
this measure is with US now. The
method of doing so is by your bal
lot. There will be established vot-
ing places accessible to all Great
Northern employees that are con-
cened in this program. We urge
upon you to use your ballot, in
dividually, constructively and with
due regard to whatever changes
that it may make in your present
setup.
We further urge every avail
able employee to come to the bal
lot box which viii be located near
the Commissary, Great Northern
Railway company and vote your
choice of an organization to rep
resent you.
The polls will be open from 8
A. NJ. to 4 P. M. beginning Monday.
The matter of balloting will be the
same as a city or national cleo
ton. No one will know how the
individual votes, but we urge you
again to consider the many adj
vantages by affiliating with Local
SIG.