Mower County transcript., 1903-05-20
STRIKE rs AVERTED
GREAT NORTHERN ROAD AND ITS
employees SETTLE THEIR
DIFFERENCES.

Sign an Agreement Restricting the
Use of Doubled n eaders to Three PEI
Cent, Very Few to Be Run East OF
Minot-General Advance in Wages
Granted to Take Effect From March
Last.
ST. Paul, May l5.-There Will be no
strike of the Great Northern train
men and conductors.
A settlement was signed at $40
o'clock last night by General Manager
Ward and the representatives OF the
Trainmen's unions which terminated
all trouble.
The terms of the agreement are:
Double-heading will be allowed east
of Minot to the extent Of one-half OF
one per cent, or one double-header
train to each 200 single engine trains.
West of Minot the practice will be al
lowed to the extent of ,3-10 per cent.
Helper service is to be included in the
percentage of double-headers allowed,
which will somewhat decrease the to-
tai percentage.
The salary increase, which was not
opposed by the road, but granted will
ingly, is as follows:
Yardmen, all over the system, are
to be given the Chicago scale, an ad-
vance of one-half cent an hour over
the st. Paul scale. d., r..
Through freight conductors will re-
ceive $3.50 day an advance Of
cents a hundred miles over the Is per
cent increase asked by the men, and
a total increase of so cents a day.
Through freight brakemen Will receive
S2.33 day, or 3 cents hundred miles
over the Is per cent increased asked,
and a total advance of 33 cents over
their former wages. ~
Local freight ,, conductors will re-
ceive $3.50 a day, an increase slight
ly over the Is per cent raise request
ed. Local freight brakemen will re-
ceive $2.55 a day, or the same proper
tionate advance as given the conduc-
tors In the same class.
Exceeds Advance Requested.
Mountain division freight condnc-
tors will hereafter receive $500 a day,
and freight brakemen in the same
class $270, which is much in excess
Of the Is per cent advance requested.
Passenger conductors salaries will
be increased under the new schedule
from 1925 to S140 a month, or an in
crease of 12 per cent. Baggagemen
will receive $50 month, which is al
SO IL per cent increase. Passenger
brakemen's wages have been advanced
to scale running from $3.50 to SIS.
Men working east OF Minot, in the en-
ploy of the company less than a year,
will receive the minimum, while the
employees west of that point will re-
ceive $40. All passenger brakemen
will be paid SIS after they have been
with the company one year.
The advances in salary for all en-
ployes will date back to March 1, the
day that the Northern Pacific men re-
ceived their increase in pay.
The signing of the agreement in
Guiding these terms was the culmina-
ton of the good work of Minneapolis
and st. Paul business men in bring
ing about a resumption of negotia-
tions when it looked as if the double
header dispute was about to end in
a general strike.
With the signing Of the terms of
settlement great load Of anxiety was
lifted from the shoulders of the 1900
trainmen employed by the Great
Northern system and brought much
comfort to the officials as well as to
business interests throughout the
Northwest Trainmen, grand officers
and officials Of the company expressed
satisfaction as to the terms of the
settlement.