People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1894 — FIREMEN AND THE STRIKE. [ARTICLE]

FIREMEN AND THE STRIKE.

Brotherhood Denounces Those Who West Out Because of Sympathy. IlAßßismnte. Pa., Sept. 22:.—The Brotherhood of Firemen at its session on Thursday adopted a series of resolutions denouncing the action of those members who struck through sympathy with Pullman strikers; pledging the brotherhood hereafter to abide by all its agreements and to await theaction of the grand lodge officers before- going out on a strike; protesting against the other labtw organizations on strike attempting to induce the members of the brotherhood to join them through sympathy, declaring against the position of Vice Grand Master LLannahan in the Pullman strike in advising members not to work, with the non-union men, and approving that of Grand Master Sargent and other grand lodge officers. The convention gave Ilannahan another slap by reducing his salary from 554,350 yearly to 32,500 and leaving those of other grand lodge officers undisturbed. Tweive thousand dollars was voted for the relief of firemen who went out during the Lehigh Valley strikes who are still idle. Grand Master Sargent and Grand Secretary and Treasurer Arnold were directed by the convention to remove the headquarters from Terre Haute to a place selected by them. After listening to a speech from Eugene V. Debs the convention adjourned finally, to meet two years hence at Galveston, Tex,