Little Falls herald., 1903-05-22
STRIKE IS AVERTED'
GREAT NORTHERN ROAD AND ITS
employees SETTLE THEIR
DIFFERENCES.


DIFFERENCES.
Sign an Agreement Restricting the
Use Of Doubie-H eaders to Three Per
=. Cent Very Few to BE Run East Of
!. Minot-GeneraI Advance in Wages
Granted to Take Effect From March
Last.
st. Paul, May 15.-There will be no
strike of the Great Northern train.
men and conductors.
A settlement was signed at $40
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 2 80 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.
Through freight conductors will re-
ceive $3.50 a day, an advance of S
cents hundred mil11 over the Is per
cent increase asked u the men, and
q total increase of so cents q day.
Through freight brakemen will receive
$2.33 day, or cents hundred miles
over the Is per cent increased asked,
and a total advance of 80 cents over
their former wages.
Local freight conductors will re-
ceive $3.50 day, an increase slight
ly over the Is per cent raise request
ed. Local freight brakemen will re-
ceive $255 a day, or the same proper
tlonate advance as given the conduc-
tors in the same class.
Exceeds Advance Requested.
Mountain division freight conduc-
tors will hereafter receive $500 a day,
and freight brakemen in the same
class $2.70, 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 $40 q month, or an in
crease Of II per cent. Baggagemen
will receive $50 q month, which is al
so a IL per cent increase. Passenger
brakemen's wages have been advanced
to a scale running from $67.50 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-
cetve $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 /, the
day that the Northern Pacific men re-
ceived theircincreaSesin*pay. -
The signing of the agreement In
cluding these terms was the. culmina,
don OF the good work Of Minneapolis
and st. Paul business men in bring
ing about a resumption of negotia-
tions when it looked as IL the double
header dispute was about to end In
general strike.
With tho signing Of the terms Of
settlement a great load of anxiety was
lifted from the shoulders of the 1900
tra1nmen employed by the Great
Northern system and brought much
comfort to the omcials as well as to
business interests throughout the
Northwest. Tratnmen, grand officers
and ofnciale Of the company expressed
satisfaction as to the terms of the
settlement. p