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$vwy 7 1 Railroad Reg ORGAN OF TOlEKA TRADES AND LABOR ASSEMBLY, BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY BRIDGE BUILDING MEN, AND OF THE KANSAS RAILWAY EMPLOYES. Vol. ii, No. 50. TOPEKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1893.

Morgan Dunn, Editors. TRUTH! TRUTH! WAKE UP, BOYS R.J.H. VS.R.E.G. Or the American Rail way Union and the Railway Employes' Club. Marshall Calls For the Forces to be Marshalled.

Is All That Any Fair-minded Man Wants. GRAND OFFICERS. (ItlANI) CI.CIIK AM) PAYMAHTKIt. V. II.

Hox 015, Eldorado, Kan, OltAM) HIUIMiKMAKTKR, I. McDaliiuls, Ohwi Kail, nilAM) 011(1 a mu B. M. Wallace, 31 llancoek street, Toln-ka, Kan (iHAND TRUSTEES. E.

J. Copea, Box 015, Eldorado, Kansas. E. B. (iault, Ldiill, Kansaa.

it. I'. Runnels, Wlcliltii, Kansaa. HAM) INNIIRANI (I.KtlK. M.ltohliisnii, e2 TtptK Both Favor Arbitration.

R. J. H. Thinks the R. U.

Can Compel the Railway Corporations to Say "Please. Messrs. Editors Some time since I wrote an urtiele for your paper commending the American Railway Union. Some par at Newton signing himself R.Ti. C.

saw fit to attack my position mid ridicule some of my Ideas and statements. I desire to say in reply, first, that It. E. misunderstood my article if he thinks for a minute that 1 favor or believe in strikes. On the contrary I am opposed to anything of the kind, and there was nothing iu my former article ilia any reasoning man should iiavi construed to mean that I was in favor of stiikca.

An arbitration law is one of the measures I have advocated for years, hut as for maintaining a lobby at the legislature I am first, last, ami nil the lime against it. My theory is for the workingmen to attend the political primaries and conventions and see to it that our law making bodies are composed of men from our own ranks, ami if I have my say they will be genuine American citizens, and men wbo favor American institutions at that. You are correct, my Newton friend, in your surmises wliuu you say that I would not give ten cents to support a lobby but I will give dollars if need be toward a campaign fund where the nominees are uuton laboring men. The men for whom 1 wmk and vote, when I have a chance, are men who dont require a coinittee to watch them. They are men who will introduce aud work for the passage of any just bill which the laboring men wiil outline or or formulate.

They don't go to the legislative halls to allow thenislves to be either bribed or bulldozed. All that is necessary ts to fill our legislatures with our kind of people, with union men, and then we can present our bills and through our representatives they will become laws. he reason I dont belong to the Railway Employes Club is because I am tired of these so-called non-partisan institutions before you join them, and whose whole aim afterwards is to benefit the g. o. p.

Such is the case with the Club at this point. I am a firm believer iu independent political action and I will guarantee it, I will pay as much, accurding to my salary, to obtain needed legislation as R. E. from bis writing, one would infer that he wanted to be a member of the lobby or that lie would give uine-terdhsofhis income for the support of such a body. Now Messrs.

Editors, if your Newton corresondent will post himself as to the aims of the A. R. U. he will find that all Ins pet schemes, except the Railway Employes Club aud the lobby, are covered in the declaration of principles. It is much like the American Federation of Labor, only more so.

I like to see a man kick when he has a kick coming. but this party is evidently in the dark as to the objects and aims of the A. It. U. He seems to waut to oppose my article, yet all the time he favots the same line of action mapped out by the A.

R. U. But I will excuse him for no doubt his bump of combativecess is largely developed and he is not to bl tmefor his I was going t-isay, crauky, but I wont ideas, for I concede him the right to work on any line he chooses und to think as he pleases, for we are in what is ejllcd free A mei'iea. If It. E.

thinks I am not using my little influence to restrict foreign immigration, and also to protect American institutions, he dont kno me for when that line is touched 1 am iu it." I am iu favor of uny thing headed in that direction. If there is anything that I like better than our American institutions it is more of ihtm, barring the Wall street ring, the Chicago Board of Trade and the legt lative bodies (f the nation as conducted for the past twenty eight years. However I am inclined to believe that the two former will soon be (lone away with, and the latter will be reformed or be filled with men of principle. 1 like to look on the bright side of things even if that side is small My ctitic says: If every man was iu the A. R.

and a strike was or- it'uuiluucd on Second 1 ai e. Leave Word for the Caller And Arouse In Time to Secure an Arbitration Law From the Next Legislature. Editors R.ui, road Register: The settlement of the strike of the employes mi the Lehigh Valley railroad ought to arouse the railroud employes of Kansas a sense of their duty. It appears to mu that we are sleeping while on duty. If a 'maid of arbitration could settle the difficulty between lie Lehigh Valley company and its employes a board of arbitration can ils i settle any difficulty arising between any dlier tailrond company and its employes.

1 have never heard of single instance where an employe of a railroad company was not willing to submit his case to and iliide by the decision of an arbitration "ommiuee. The trouble has always been gel the railroad companies to meet us lefurc the same tiibutmlof justice. We can just us well Lave a state board of arid-ion in Kansas as in any other state, An election at which there will be elected the legislature and sta officers of this state is ippmaeliing. Iu round numbers tiieie ate iliout thirty thousand railroad employ' Kansas, a sufficient number of votes to hold the balance of power. Shall we use it in our own interest? Isn't it about time hat we cease to be manipulated in the in-1 crest oT the politicians of the different political parties, whose greatest offer or inducement to us has been to make a politician of snme one in our ranks by an np-pointiucut to some office? Of what benefit is Mieii an appointment to the railroad employes? Can you explain satisfactorily to yourself just how it will better enable you 'o secure and retain employment or secure just reward for your toil? Thiuk over 'liis matter; then act.

Leave orders for the caller to arouse you on time. Dont oversleep yourself. Let us have this train made up in time to make the run. We are tin best orgauized class of men on earth and there is no reasou under the -un why we should not ask for what we want, and when we do make the demand foi what in justice are our rights we will find the politicians with their plug trains all in to clear ahead of time No fear of their getting in the way to be ditched. Cast aside your party prejudices.

Quit working in the interest of politicians tttfd do some work for yourself, your family, your brethren. Marshall. Topeka, Dec. 11, 1893. Locals and Personals.

George N. Adamson is still at the old stand, 904 east Fourth street, ready to mend your sole, tap your heel, sew up your upper, or make you new foot wear at the regulation prices. Satisfaction guaranteed. Union trade solicited. Mr.

Herbert Schwartz, a machinist, formerly in the employ of the Santa Fe, has opened out a restaurant and lunch counter at 419 east Fourth street, which he calls the Union 5-cent Lunch House. He deals out meals and lunct es to the queens tuste and none but fair men and their friends are allowed to straddle a stool in front of his counter. Turn something his way, boys. A. L.

Beardsley and Mo. Fetterolf of Chanute gladdened the heart of ye printer Hits week by substantial remittances Both these gentlemen are in the Santa Fes service as engineers and have been readers of this paper from the beginning J. P. Kirkpatrick sends us notice to change his address from Ilunnewell to Perth, from which it may be inferred that he has "yutnped his yob at Ilunnewell aud has a new one. 3Ve hope it is a better one, for .1.

P. is a deserving and industrious man. The moot court at the Y. M. C.

A. ro.ms attempted to try Mr. Guy Fawkes of Gunpowder Plot notoriety Monday night but the case was thrown out of court on a demurrer put in by the defendants attorneys and sustained by the judge. A. Alleaume, proprietor of the news, confectionery, tobacco, cigat and notion store on cast Fourth street, renewed bis subscription to tho only laboring mans iper in the city this week.

Did You, Or Did You Not, Colonel Harrison, Write 1 hat Ordinance? A. W. Earnest Sa You Did. November 24 the Register republished an urtiele which appeared in the Democrat, a small daily of this city, in which T. Harrison, since nominated at the republican primaries for mayor, was charged with having prepared an otdinance and Hiving a fell iw-emmeilmnn introduce ll, which reduced the wages of laborers in the citys employ to very appreciable extent.

In the issue of the Daily Capital of the next day this paper was very severely cen-ii red for copying the urtiele from the Democrat without having investigated as to its ruth, as the Democrat was characterized is a disreputable sin eft, and a sweeping denial of the whole charge wits made. Not wishing to do any one an injustice the editor of the Register made further investigation and is convinced tlnu the charge is ibsnlutely true. Mr. Earnest, councilman from the Second waul, has the draft of an ordinance identical with that puhlislnd in the Register on the21th of November, whLh lie says lie can prove was prepared by Col. Harrison.

It is type written and interlined, with corrections, in Mr. Harrison's own handwriting. Mr. Earnest also gave us the following letter, with the privilege of publishing it over his signature: MR. EARNESTS LETTER.

Editor Register In reply to your question as to tho.nutlienticity of the ar tide published by you November 24, and as to my proofs for the same will say that I have in my possession the original ordinance prepared by Col. Harrison. Said ordinance was entitled: An ordinance defining the duties and powers of street commissioners and providing for the compr nsation of employes, on the 18th day of July, 1893. Said ordinance provided as follows: "Section 4, The compensation oi the street commissioner shall be $1,000 per annum, payable monthly; the compensation of the first foreman shall bo $43 per moath, and the compensation of each of the other foremen shall be $40 per month. The compensation for a team, wagon and teamster shall be $2.50 per day of eight hours; the compensation for learn and wagon shall bo $1.25 per day of eight hours; the compensation for laborers shad be $1.25 per day of eight hours; the coro-peosaliou of carpenters shall be $2 per day of eight hours; the compensation of stone and brick layers shall be $2 per day of eight hours.

This otdinance was presented to the council by Councilman Fellows upon the request of Mr. Harrison, and lie presented it to the couucil at the spi cial request ol Harrison without reading it. The facts are that it was prepared and brought before the council by Mr. Harrison, and was. when read, defeated by the other members of the council.

After the publication of the article referred to on Sat urday, November 25, the Topeka Daily Capital, in a long editorial entitled The Dishonest Use of the Labor Question. characterizes these facts cs lying charges. I wish to state for the inform ation of the workingmen of Topeka that this is a true and correct statement of the way this ordinance was brought before tho city council, and if It had not been foi other good members of the council ami myself who opposed it, ii would have been pa-se by Mr. Harrison and enforced today, fixing the wages of the workingman at the prices named in section 4. If these are not tho facts, then it is tho duty of the two powerful papers who brought Mr.

Harrison into being ns a candidate for mayor of tms city, to present to the public the exact facts that all may know what the facts are before they east their votes on election day. A. Earnest. The Register lias no fight to make on Mr. Harrison, save from a workingmans standpoint.

As a champion of the wage-eat tiers it does not ask whether Mr. Harri-s or any other candidate is a republican, democrat or pop1. list. All that is wanted Is to know whether the party in question is friendly to the demands' of wage earn- 1 fCotilinued on Page. I 11, Kan.

nity an honest and upright citizen, and his family a faithful and loving companion and father. Jh an! nil, That the lodge extend its deep, est and most sincere sympathy to the family of the deceased in this their sad hour of bereavement. lit mind. That a copy of these resolutions be published in the Thayer Tribune, a copy lie forwarded to the- family of the deceased, a copy be spread upon the records of our lodge, anil a copy lie sent the Railroad Register of Topeka, and that our charter lie draped tu mourning thirty days, E. E.

Smith, F. Johnson. A. Johnson, Committee. Thayer, Dec.

12, 1893. S'JMIC KOI Til LOKKaFs No. 4. Bro. B.

F. Cross, foremau of Arkansas division bridge gang, fell from bridge 304 Monday morning. Decern uer 4, and was killed. Bro. Cross was tu the act of launching a small girder into its proper place when the bar he was working with bioke its hold, letting lmn tall a distance of some fourteen feet.

No. 4 met in regular meeting Sunday the 10th with a good attendance, although we note that some of the brethren who have missed several of the meetings in the past were again absent. We hope these derelicts were turn up all rignt at our next meeting, all trim and taut with no suspicion of bilge water about them. There being more business than could be attended to another meeting was called for Sunday tho 17th in order to transact the unfinished business and have everything lined up and ready for the advent of the coding year. Brethren, there is business of an important nature to come befure this called meeting demanding the presence of every biother of No.

4. Will you respond? Bro. T. Trice and gang are working out of Springfield this week. Bro.

W. D. Jones and gang will be putting false works under a number of bridges between Thayer and Ravenden this week. Bro. Trego aud assistants are still working on bridge watchmans house at Black Rock.

Bro. Lauahan has charge of Bro. Cross old gang and is putting in a new iron girder at bridge 3(50. Our goats services wero called for last meeting, and vve must confess he was in capital trim. I believe the older he gets the better he is, and we will soon have another chance to see if he is improving or losing, as we have more victims in sight.

We met Bro. I. M. Hutton last week ubout three quarters of a ndles west of Cedar Gap. and he looked as though he Wes happy, at least he smiled.

He iuvites the brethreu to give him a call. He lives on the right of way near where I saw him. Bro, II. S. Stuekert is still in tho hospital at Kansas City, but we his time will be limited there aud hu be able to be with the iioys once more.

Correspondent, TuayJk, Dec. 11, 1893. CAPITAL 1,0 DBF No. 10. Bro.

Kalin has been on the sick list for some time past. A good turnout at the meeting last Sun day, and some interesting discussions. A committee of arrangements was appointed to arrange for a social aud entertainment at some time in the near future. A good idea, as it will allow tho families to get aequeiuted. besides being a good ndvei-tixemeiit for the organization.

A. loxheitner and Charley Ilat vey from Alina, John Rokcy of M- lveru and Fred Nordstrom of the cut oil were all iu at lodge Sunday, and tight glad were the I Continued on Third Iuge. MIDGE niRI.CTORY. '(min under thin limit himrtnl at the rate of $5 per year, payable quarterly or nenii-yiaiiy. "I iriClIITA Id) No.

2 ni('( Is the I Hi Sim-V any In each month, at I p. In odd l-'el-lows Hull, over 0(15 ast Ronidass ave Wichita, Kansas. H. O. Ki nmm.h, (lea.

Foreman. M. K. Wiivknktii, Clerk. V( ill Ma liewsou ave.

OAII I'AU LODGE No. 10 meets at i A. It. Hall, 421 Kansas Topeka, at 2 p. on the 2d Mid 4'h Sundays of each month.

Visiting brethren irlven a cordial welcome. P. S. WiTiii.itx, Gtn. Foreman.

M. Roiiinhon, Clerk. Hancock st. We are rejoiced to lie able to say lliat the printing committee is nlile to say that they have received infontmlion that llie new rtlnals will be furnished by the first of next week Kriink. writes quite letter this week.

A little nousensc, now and then is relushed by bridgemen," as well as the wisest men. the Frisco correspondent an entertaining and unique Correspondents should never neglect putting the nfc and addrm on epistles, and the number of lodge ns well, with now tie plume and signature, as otherwise we aie apt to get them loealed wrong. Bro. Wallace met several of the bridge-men of the Missouri Pacific at Achison the other night and left an anpointment to meet them again next Sunday morning, and if everything is favorable he will then organize a lodge at that point. The sad death of B.

F. Cross, briefly chronicled by the correspondent from Thayer lodge, touches' the B. B. department in many localities. Byron Cross, general foreman that department on the southern division of the Santa Fe, is a brother of the deceased, as is also Charles Cross, B.

man on the Santa Fe in this city, and Volney Cross, who was recently given a foremanship on the Chicago division of the Santa Fe. Those who know him tell us he was a faithful and intelligent man, and there will be many to mourn his untimely death Ilis death, from what we can learn, was caused by a rupture of the blood vessels of the liver, produced by a fall from a bridge upon which ho bad been working. After being picked up he sat down on the bank and after speaking of his hurt arose to go and get a drink from a spring near at hand. lie took hut a few steps until he sank down unconscious, when his companions put him on a hand car and ran it eight miles to the nearest physician; bin before they reached the place lie had cx-pired. The life of a bridgeman is a dangerous one and this is only an illustration of the necessity for the organization of the brotherhood and the perfecting of a good insurance in connection there with, Callffor Meeting of Board Trustee and Brand Officers.

IIanson, I. Dec 5, 1893. Attention Brother Bridgemen There will he a meeting of th hoard of trustees, Gtand Lodge, B. of B. and B.

M. of A. on Saturday, Dec. 30, at 4 p. at the Occideu'al hotel, Wichita, for the purpose of making final settlement with the retired grand officers.

All pres- ent grand officers are requested to be present. Yours in F. I. W. II.

Christian, Grand Clerk and Paymaster. (DEATH OF llltO. It. F. CRONS.

Resolutions Condolence Fussed. Whereas, the fourth day of December, A. it pleased our Ileav only Father to remove by death from our midst our riliv brother, B. F. Cross, wuo was a member of Star Route lodge No 4, B.

It. B. B. at Thayer, th refotv, be it lirsolnd, That -in the death of our beloved brother the lodge lias lost a true, faithful uud worthy member, the commu.