. International official souvenir tenth biennial convention . semer was re-elected as Grand ChiefCarman and Brother Keliher as Grand Secretary-Treasurer. Deathhaving visited the ranks of the Brotherhood in the interval, re-moved from his labors Brother B. F. White, who would other-wise, no doubt, also have been re-elected as Vice Grand ChiefCarman. Li his stead Brother H. J. Dacres of Fort Worth,Texas, was elected, with a Grand Executive Board of W. , Cedar Rapids, Iowa (re-elected) ; John Caples, KansasCity, Kan. (re-elected) ; L. P. Downey, Wellington, Kan.; D. , Duluth, Mi
. International official souvenir tenth biennial convention . semer was re-elected as Grand ChiefCarman and Brother Keliher as Grand Secretary-Treasurer. Deathhaving visited the ranks of the Brotherhood in the interval, re-moved from his labors Brother B. F. White, who would other-wise, no doubt, also have been re-elected as Vice Grand ChiefCarman. Li his stead Brother H. J. Dacres of Fort Worth,Texas, was elected, with a Grand Executive Board of W. , Cedar Rapids, Iowa (re-elected) ; John Caples, KansasCity, Kan. (re-elected) ; L. P. Downey, Wellington, Kan.; D. , Duluth, Minn., and J. H. Rosen, Los Angeles, Cal. The Brotherhood continued to make progress after the 1892convention and many more lodges were added to the directory,whie two working agreements and wage scales were secured be-fore the expiration of six months after the third convention, atwhich the constitution was amended providing for biennial insteadof annual conventions. June 12, 1894, was the date fixed for thefourth convention, or first biennial convention. 19. M. F. RYAN,First Vice-Grand Chief Carman. 20 The number of lodges had increased to 160, all except a fewof which were in good standing. The membership had beenswelled to about ten thousand, and prospects for the future werebrighter than ever before during the earl\- months of 1893, butin June of that year an influence that boded evil to the variousRailroad Brotherhoods was set in motion. It was during June,1893, when the American Railway Union, under the leadershipof Eugene V. Debs, made its appearance in the labor will remember the rapid growth of this organization im-mediately after it was first heard of. Members from all of therailway labor organizations were induced by the eloquence of and his associates to forsake the organization of their craftsand become identified with the American Railway Union, which,it was claimed by its president and others, would become thepanacea for all ills to which railwa
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