Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1914 — WILL ORGANIZE INTO ONE LARGE RAILROAD UNION [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WILL ORGANIZE INTO ONE LARGE RAILROAD UNION

First Move to Amalgamate All Employes Made. MELLENTOR THE PRESIDENCY Head of New Haven Lines May Be Head of Council to Include All Branches of Roads In New England States. Boston. —The first move in a campaign for a Federated Council of Brotherhoods, which shall include first the hundreds of thousands of railway men of New England, then the millions of operatives of the United States and Canada, and ultimately perhaps the workers of Great Britain also, occurred at the Quincy house here.' These railroad workers are split up into more than , one hundred organizations, None of them will be asked to abandon its present brotherhood. All of them are to be urged to join in the federation that shall give unity of interest and a power of numbers that by themselves they do not posess. The United States federation of separate •tates and the federation of the German states into a powerful empire are the models upon which the railway campaign is planned. The leaders of the movement are confident that when it shall be shown to be a united enterprise with the backing of the great majority of the railroad men of New England the former president of the New Haven railroad, Charles S. Mellen, will accept the presidency of the federated counciL The men who Are planning the campaign are enthusiastic in their praise of Mr. Mellen for his cordial and fair dealings with the employes of the railway systems he has managed. They have written him about their plan, and In long replies, all in his own handwriting, he has referred to the way their proposal warms his blood and —pulls upon his heartstrings. The originator of the plan is Earl H. Morton of Greenwood, grand president of the Order jof Railroad Station Agents. One of its prime promoters is F. H. Sidney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, and the field officer, once the movement is actually under way, will be Harry Phillips, for-

xnerly deputy mayor of West Ham — the East end of London —where In a population of 1,000,000 he had wide experience with the laboring class. The ■committee on organisation and federation is made up of W. R. Pratt of Walpole, L. B. Twltchell of Bast Braintree, Dana B. Cutter of Lynn, M. B. B. Barrett of Brookline and William F. Fern&ld of Swampscott, all of whpm are ■connected with the Order of Railroad ■Station Agents. Among those who attended the meeting at the Quincy house were Lieutenant Governor Barry, who was at a meeting In February last and declared lor federation, and ex-President Bliot, who is declared to have been "cordially Invited because he Is opposed to labor organisations and with a purpose ■of showing him that he Is wrong.” It Is a big program that has been •outlined by the leaders of the federation movement thus: Not sectional nor merely national, hut international in scope. Not to supersede a single present organisation nor to dispossess a single present officer of a railway labor iigWi Not to Indorse any of the revolutionary doctrines, nor to stand for sny of the methods of the I- W. W. and like bodies. * But to avoid petty sectional strikes To Insure some security of tenure. To secure f<& the operatives places at the tables of the boards of directors who represent now the financing of the properties. To demonstrate the partnership between capital and labor _

Charles S. Mellen.