The shareholders and the management, whose relations with its employees have heretofore been so entirely satisfactory, and whose aim is now, as heretofore, to a fair treatment to everyone in the employ of the company, considers this proposition to be an eminently fair one, and one that should be accepted. Our attention to the period of nearly twenty-seven years in which we have been connected with this company, in various capacities, all differences between the employees and the management have been successfully overcome without the strike conditions being imposed, and I sincerely hope that a considerable number of the employees affected will continue to have the same confidence and reliance in the management that they have had in the past, and remain at work pending a satisfactory adjustment of the present critical conditions.

To those whose action will, in a large measure, be influenced by the insurance carried by them in the order with which they are associated, the railway company offers to take over this insurance and continue to carry the same on as favorable, if not better, terms than they now enjoy. Any employee who desires to continue in the service, and who will make application, stating the condition under which he is now insured, will be afforded the full protection.

It is to be hoped that the continuation of railway employees to continue the railway company's attitude, which is so vitally interested in the service, will exert themselves to the utmost at work, and will appreciate the justness of the public. 