People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1894 — TO TREAT ALL ALIKE. [ARTICLE]

TO TREAT ALL ALIKE.

Judge Bundy Says Union Pacific Men Will Have Justice. Omaha, Neb., April 9.—The American Railway union has made application in the United States district court to have the salaries of the members of the order on the Union Pacific road, which were cut last August, restored to the old rate. Judge Dundy was visibly excited when addressing the attorneys from the bench. He said: "If it is stated that such a cut has been made in the wages of these men connected with this organization—or outside of it—on this railway, when others who are drawing higher pay have been so highly favored, I will see that those who are drawing less pay will be treated the same way and I will advise that the old pay oe restored. Still, it is but fair to the other side that they should have notice. You have to rely a great deal on the testimony of railway men in these cases, and they should have notice, and I suggest the propriety when Mr. Dickinson returns of making the order. “Now, I have got myself into difficulty, as you can readily see, by following the example Judge Jenkins made in the Northern Pacific case, when he allowed a schedule reducing the pay and fixing in the order that the parties were bound to comply with it when no notice, not a minute, was given. I do not propose to get myself in that shape again and be denounced in open court where I have to preside at times. I followed his order, though mine was less stringent than his when he did not give the men a minute’s notice, and now I am denounced all over the country for doing the very thing he did, when I was following a precedent he set My term of court commences at Norfolk on Monday, but if necessary 1 will postpone that in order to have a speedy heating in this casa” In conclusion Judge Dundy said: "If you want to make application to have the old pay restored, I want you and every other one of the employes on the road to understand that if they have been wronged by the reduction that they will not have to join any union to get a hearing, because, as I have said before, I will hear one person that has a grievance qr 1 will hear 109, or 1,000 or 4,000 —as they claim to have in this union—and I will make no distinction between the parties.”