Evening journal., 1901-04-13
Demands Of Engineers and
Firemcn Discussed
FEW MINOR POINTS CONCEDED
Question Of TeIcgraphPrS and Train
men Will Not Come Up at
Present

Jersey City, April 13.-The trouble
between the Central Railroad Of New
Jersey company and its employees Is
stll far from a settlement. Represent
atiycs OF the employers and employees
held two long conferences In Jersey
City yesterday, but last night the con-
ferrees confessed that no matrial pro-
gresd towards n settlement had been
made Some minor points were con-
coded by the representatives OF both
sides, but on the principal points OF
difference neither side would make con-
ccssiona. Another conference Is baing
held today, but II Is not expected that
an agreement viii be reached, and the
conferences will be continued into next
week.
The demands Of the engineers and
fremen were discussed at yesterdays
conference. supefintgndonts Olhausen
and Went1, speaking for the company,
took the ground that the existing scale
Of wages was equitable and should be
adhered 90.
The demands OF the men were in
subatance
On all passenger runs Of shortlength,
: like from Jersey City to Newark, pay
to be S375 per hundred miles and over
time after IL consecutive hours on
runs averaging less than 100 miles.
4 On long distance runs, like those to
Mauch Chunk and Philadelphia, pay to
be S3.40 per hundred miles. Other pas
senger runs $3.50 per hundred miles.
] Heavy draught engines, four cents a
mile. with a guarantee Of ten miles an
hour.
The iiremen demanded a change
from the system of using a hundred
miles an the basis of calculation and
/ the substitution Of the mile as the unit.
Timothy Shea, Of the flromen, John
! Y. Waite, Of the engineers, and Super
I intendent Olhausen did all the talking
/ Every compromise proposed was found
TO have weak points. Finally, when IL
4 was seen that the differences were not
\ to be adjusted in this manner. Super
a intendent Olhausen presented what
Z amounted TO the company's final say.
I IL was that the company was prepared
TO add $4,000 to its pay roll as far as
! the mun Ia the cabs We're concerned,
tho pay roll TO be considered being
that Of last year. This amounted to
placing the responsibility Of making
J, the men themselves divide the addition
to their wages which the company is
willing 20 grant.
The trouble now arises. it 70 said,
4 that to make the division equitable
some Of the engineers must accept a
reduction. The men on the Mauch
Chunk runs make, it is said, as high
! as $40 a day. Those on the short
runs like the Newark branch. make
from S3.25 to s4 TO effect a compro-
mise between the two extremes will
now be the effort OF the engineers and
lremen. The engineers on the long
runs must be scaled down and those
on the short runs raised.
The conference adjourned with mat
ters in this state. The demands OF the
trainmon and telegrephors had not
been touched upon. nor viii they be
considered until the enginemen's wages
have been settled. II was agreed aL
the outset that one set of differences
should be settled before another should
/ be taken up. The engineers and fire.
men, however, may ask for more time
to consider and propose that pending
their reaching a conclusion the de-
mands OF the others be considered, this
to save time.