. International official souvenir tenth biennial convention . rganization, and the Carmens Brotherhood to have goneto pieces. A similar story was told of the Order of RailwayTelegraphers. The Locomotive Engineers were reported to havelost 8,000 members, the Trainmen 4,000 and the Conductors alarge number, ^[eanwhile the American Railway Union forgedslowly ahead, districted the country and formed new secret of blacklisting by railway companies prevent the Unionfrom publishing the names of its members, so its leaders, whileclaiming a large membership, declined to furnish the approxi
. International official souvenir tenth biennial convention . rganization, and the Carmens Brotherhood to have goneto pieces. A similar story was told of the Order of RailwayTelegraphers. The Locomotive Engineers were reported to havelost 8,000 members, the Trainmen 4,000 and the Conductors alarge number, ^[eanwhile the American Railway Union forgedslowly ahead, districted the country and formed new secret of blacklisting by railway companies prevent the Unionfrom publishing the names of its members, so its leaders, whileclaiming a large membership, declined to furnish the approximatetotal. One of the four organizers w^ote, Dec. 8, 1894. that bothmen and women are eligible to join the organization and that therewere 140,000 names on the rolls. The Union probably had fewerin 1896 than in 1895, but constituted a factor in the world which was not overlooked. The Independent Rail-w^ay brotherhoods and orders which had suffered loss of member-ship in 1894 and 1895 ^I^ve revived and most of them are pros-perous. * * * 23. L. L. HANNA,Second Vice-Grand Chief Carman. 24 When the American Raihvay Union was first introduced byMr. Debs, and it was claimed that it would have for its objectsthe federation of the various railway brotherhoods, with eachmaintaining its integrity, it was generally endorsed by prominentrepresentatives of the different brotherhoods, including the mem-bers of grand executive board of the Brotherhood Railway Car-men, but when in June, 1893, the constitution was made public,and it was learned therefrom that the objects were not for suchfederation or mutual assistance among the various brotherhoods,the Grand Chief Carman and members of the Grand Execu-tive Board refused to have anything further to do with it, es-peciallv when it was found that the real objects were to absorball the existing brotherhoods, but the Grand Secretary-Treasurerhaving been named as general secretary of the Railway Union,and his determination to cast
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