The Trackman du lieu suivant : Fort Scott, Kansas • 3

-rife "Trackman SOME GOOD "HUSTLING.0 of en are orgamz and will movo As as instance of titts? wblca I tcsether as ono. I enclose herewith, to non-niPintiers, actuated som el our members Enemies of organized labor constantly refer to the illegitamato cornering of the labor market as one of the principals of unionism, yet no one knows better than they do that this argument is nothing but hot air. Out of Plumb. "He isn't straight, is he?" "No, He's so 'crooked that it would take four yards of corkscrew to measure him." Judge. an application blank.

Brothers, get itit i the vork, your men and send in the application blank so you can get a card by the time we hold our meeting. I will arrange to hold meetings on the 24th and 31st days of this month for the purpose of electing a delegate to the national convention and also for the purpose of electing officers, then will get a charter and establish a local lodge at Chickasha. Yours truly, A. T. Spears, tfe paint to the good work done so tfcr gro, Ai T.

Spears, Division Ghairman for the Rock Island at 4ad. On January 17th bad ttta following tetter mimeo-5raphe4 and mailed each foreman on ma division: Jan. 17 1904. AB Foremen investigation find tnat 50 per cent of the foremen this division are members of the Union; of Hallway Trackmen, 'i'eee are facts only lack replies Employers' associations are nothing new under the sun. If they had not heretofore existed, how could blacklisting been impossible.

Div. Chairman, N. U. of R. T.

Cfcom 6 foremen. Most of those who were not members and wrote me etther had their application to and wre looking for fcfceid cards or were Colas to send 14 their application at early, date, TOes.iEri soma toiezaeji hswever HBit were "on fcr itevfog heea reading Ami papers sent out by an other oscdef, aametf, The Advance Advocate, pQaiteaed in St Louis Now C9 tfcQse i win Bay, yon will apt antwry lumber at the abate named Ball lor Delegate to Convention. My choice for Delegate to the First Annual Convention of the National Union of Railway Trackmen from THIS ROADMASTER' DIVISION, being Division of the. pamphlet, waa Tolnme number 13. if CMs order has been in existence 19 years, striving tq its utmost ta better the.

condition of the traefcmen as the pobliehera claim why is it that there are foremen on this division, who have made this profession life study, some qf whose hair Is beginning to be Sprinkled with gray, why is it they Railroad is Bro of P. State of. never neara oi the international Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Em- Signed. ployes until this union was started? i There la no answer And the fact of their being none is proof conclusive k. that if the aforesaid organization has State.

P. gfceea tit existence that long, what bave they been doing tThere is just cne thing far you to do if you are not at member that Is to get in and get ifc Quick. Mr Wa Gruhlkey who Is chairman for the state of Illinois to Ballot for Division (Mian ani Stale System Chairman. Cut out, Fill up the Blanks and Forward a.t Once. gether with Mr Jaa.

Bolton, brother of Roadmaster Bolton and another foreman from ItUnois who were visiting Chlckasha during the holidays, told me that, on their division on this system they were organized solil.Now Chat Is what we must do. There is not a division on this system that has less than 40 foremen members of tnis order and the fact of some being solid makes 60 per cent a safe estimate for th whole system The Telegraphers J. I. SHSPPARD, Secretary, Fort Scott, Kansas. I am a member of the Vnioi of Railway Traxkmen residing at (Post Office address) of.

and employed on the Division of the Railroad. My choice for Division Chairm. of this division is 0 who is employed on this division and resides at (Post Office address) My choice for State System Chaii man is who resides at (Post Office address) and is an employee of this road. Both of the above named being ersof this'order: (Signed). made a schedule with 90 per cent embers and they were about two $ears reaching that per cent, this order will be in existence the fourth day of tne coming April and as trackmen or-er the entire system have taken this fcrder up we don't care how many other orders are in existence, and what their strength is The idea is to get togeth on this system, enlist every track man in the work, make this road solid Ui of R.

men from ond end to the other and we can get as good terms from this company as it every track i. mm "--TV man on every road in the United States belonged t6 this particular it xi Vt till ag4 or name 6f the oVae? tb wnfet efnpldyeS beldhg that fcyingt employers to terms with them, tbTe tiate tm Vis the ihousaiias WO KSONEY TILL CURED. 23 veahs established. We send FREE and postpaid a 200 page treatise cn Cites, and Diseases of the Rectum; also 188 page iilus. treatise on Diseases of kf tin tteusatids cored, by our mild method, none paid a cent till cared we firs'i names on application, DUG.

TUOUHJOH MINOR, 131 Oak Kansas City, Mo'.