Bloomington (IN) Newsletter, April 7, 1855, p. 2. NOTE: The item below was
abbreviated from the original as noted by the ellipsis.
MEETING OF THE RAILROAD EMPLOYEES
Resolutions passed in the meeting held at the court house of New Albany,
March 28, 29 and 30 by the mechanics employed by the New Albany and Salem
Railroad Company in the City of New Albany.
Whereas we have not been regularly paid since the month of September 1854,
and when we received any pay at all, we received it in small sums and
frequently in state stock money upon which we were subject to be shaved from
five to twenty-five cents on the dollars, and whereas we have been so
contented until it was suggested by the superintendent of the machine shop
of said road at the City of New Albany that he had received instructions
from the president of the road, Mr. Brooks, to make it known that the
company will not be able to pay us hereafter except with due bills payable
in three and six months after date with interest. In consequence of which a
meeting was called to make some arrangements, if possible, with the company
to pay us what is due to us at the present time. Therefore, it was resolved
that none of us will strike another blow for the New Albany and Salem
Railroad Company until we have received all the moneys due to us from said
railroad company.