Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1891 — OPPOSED TO THE FARMERS. [ARTICLE]

OPPOSED TO THE FARMERS.

A special dispatch from Bloomington 111., says : A movement is on foot to organ ize a political association, of the rat 1 way employes of this city an 1 vicinity as a branch of the National Railway’ymployes’ Protective Association. .Tnere are nearly if not quite 200 railway employes in and about the city. The manifesto in regard to the organization proposed says: ‘ Unreasonable and hestiie Granger }egsiation in the West has depreciated railtoad securities so that the stockholders, in. stead of receiving dividends on their in, vestments, have been assessed to pay the running expenses of the roads. Cutting down expenses is the war cry all along the iine of every Western road. Reducing the r orce Qf employes and threatening and shortening the hours of labor is the rule in an effort to keep the expenses within the income. •>