VK GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1915,
' PAGE TWO
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Pisgah home colony is in need of
clothing and shoes for the men who
are ready to start out looking for
jobs. They are going out with new
courage this time, since there is no
drink to fight, and arc highly confi
dent of getting work if only they
can bo proporly equipped. They
have adopted as their slogan: "Better
Men; Better Oregon." Anyone who
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Oregon Co-Operative Association
1118 1-2 Adams Ave. La Grande, Ore.
Branches at
IMBLER, OR. EVANS, OR.
Cleveland, O., Feb. 13. The first
official statement from the workers'
side in the impending controversy be
tween, railroads of the country and
their train crews over working hours
was issued here a day or two ago. .
It was signed by W. S. Stone, Grand
Chief Engineer of the Brotherhood, of
Locomotive Engineers; W. S. Carter,
President of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen and Enginemen; L. E.
Sheppard, Acting President of the
Order of Railway Conductors, and W.
G. 'Lee, President of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen. These organ
izations represent 400,000 employees
on 528 railroad lines.
The brotherhoods denied that they
wanted other employees to suffer re
ductions to meet any extra expense
that the eight-hour day for trainmen
might involve. The fact that divi
dends might be reduced, they said,
was "a matter with which we have
nothing to do."
- They argued that freight rates need
not necessarily be increased, but said
they favored such increases if the
roads need the revenue. The state
ment added that a $200,000,000 -passenger
station erected "in complying
with public demand'' bore the same
relation to the men's wages "as so
much watered atcck."
Whether the controversy is to leatf
to a strike was pronounced a "ques
tion that at this time is not a part of
tho discussion." "The organizations
are not opposed to arbitration, neither
are they pledged to accept it," said
the statement. , '
"The railroad organizations are
practically pledged to peace; but that
does not mean peace at any price. It
is true that in past arbitration the
men were disappointed and to some
extent lost faith in that method of
adjustment of differences, but there
is neither warrant nor authority for
saying that arbitration will or will not
be accepted. Circumstances will de
termine the position of tho men when
the need arises."
"The eight-hour day movement is
based wholly upon the justice of a
workday of reasonable 'hours that will
permit the men further to separate
the dead line between work and
wages," says the statement. "The
railroads say in effect that men who
have put, in' a few years of railroad
service have worked themselves out
and will not be accepted if they lose
their positions. If men are worked
out in a few years undor present ser
vice conditions, the ciemnnd to extend
their wjie earning years is fully jus-1
"Overtime in road service is due
almost wholly to the practice of rail
roads overloading trains so that they,
cannot make their mileage within
their time limit,1?. Tho railroads are
doing this for profit; they do not deny
it; and if they propose to demand ex
tra service at tho sacrifice of the
health and future earning ability of
the men, they should pay extra for
of pay in the Eastern terri
tory were quoted to illustrate wage
conditions, the statement saying:
"The pay of train service employ
ees, other than, passenger, is based on
100 miles or less, ten hours or less.
In tho Eastern territory the brake
men will receive the munificent sum
of $2.67 for regular freight service,
out of which he must maintain his
family at home and take oare of him
self at the other end of the run."
crease on all roads west of Chicago.
"It is a matter of common knowl
edge that the railroads are passing
periods in their history" says Vice
President Scott "Something like forty-two
thousand miles of line, or ap
proximately one-fifth the mileage of
all the railroads in the country, are
even now being operated - under re
ceivership. Officers of the brother
hoods have been quoted as saying
that, unless tho present demands are
granted, a strike, rather than arbi
tration, will be resorted to. , What ef
fect this would have upon the com
merce of the country it is pot difficult
to imagine. Tho United States is
now entering upon what has been pre
dicted as an unprecedented era of
prosperity, partly due -to the uptorn
conditions in Europe. Paralysis of
the railroads would be paralysis of
the country's commerce at a most
critical stage. The railroads have in
their service a high class of men and
pay them wages commensurate with
their skill and responsibility as well
as with tho hazards and other condi
tions of their employment. Thev be
lieve the enginmen and trainmen are
now receiving adequate and even lib
eral wages for the services per
formed. They have been relieved of
much labor heretofore performed.'
The present wage scales have been
fixed by arbitration and the federal
laws, by impartial boards of arbitra
tion, representing not only the rail
roads and their employes tut also the
public, which boards have taken into
consideration not only the conditions
of employment and wages in the rail
road service in comparison with other
lines of industry, but also the higher
standard of living and awards made
accordingly.
Times are changed. The Modern
New York robber who thinks of rob
bing the city hall first cuts the burg
lar alarm wires. His prototype used
to get himself elected to the city
council.
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The Railroad's Side.
From ' San Francisco comes ' the
viewpoint of the railroads.
Should the quoted declarations of
the heads of the four great- railroad
brotherhoods be substantiated, the
entire railway transportation system
of the United States and a nortion of
Canada will bo looked up for the first
time in history. Should a strike ma
terialize a stagnation of industry will
result that has only been approximat
ed by the railway strike of a few
years ago in France, .where thA miles
ot lines involved were but a tenth or.
those now threatened.
Train service men are aakin? for
what amounts to a 25 per cent in
crease m wages and an 87 1-2 nor
cent increase in overtime pay.
The railroad officials reply that
such a marked advance would be pro-
luuiuve; inai we railroads already
pay 45 cents out of every dollar taken
in to their men and that grant of the
inereaso would only add thousands of
miles of lines to the 42,000 already in
receivership. ,
The situation, according to the
viewpoint of railway officials, is one
inni atiects tho entire country the
men who ship and the men who travel.
They base this belief on the grounds
that none of the other i tarns for
which the other 55 cents of the rail
way dollnr goes new equipment, ex
tensions, supplies, taxes, etc. can be
reduced without impairing the service
to the public. The only way in which
moro money could be obtained by the
railroads to pay out again as in
creased wages would bo from a great
er source of incomo, or, in other
words, higher transportation charges.
There arc but two ways, they say,
in which tho demands could be
granted.
One is to cut down the ni-vla.
other to raise rates. '
That is why they see the public's
interest in the situation one fully as
great as that of tho railroads. '
The increase in nav of onoin. nn4
I train employes since 1903 nmt. ,
I front 30 to 42 per cent and as late as
nst year a board of arbitration al
I lowed engmemen further waee in.
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