The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-30

suit In increases exceeding those asked
for in some cases. These figures were:
Per
Month.
For conductors of passenger trains $4,000
For train baggagemen ..... 5000
For brakemen, passenger trains
East of Minot, first five years. $50. 67.50
After five years service .......... 1000
West of Minot. first five years -. 1000
After five years service .......... $500
Per Hour.
| For freight conductors, under rule 8 a5c
For freight brakemen. under rule 9.23c
For conductors on mountain runs be-
tween Skykom1sh and Leaven-
worth ...................25 Lac
For conductors on certain way
freight runs $50
For brakemen on certain way
freight runs Observation-Disclosures. 25Ec
1.-The foregoing offer was conditioned
upon the entire elimination from your
request of all reference to doubie-head-
ers. After taking time to consider this
offer, your committee decided to reject
81 then offered to put the above nam
nittee would unite with me in a Joint cir
cular 10 the men on the road stating that
aH questions at issue between us had
been settled except that of doubte-head-
ing.
This proposition was also rejected by
your committee.
81 then offered to make the above nam
ed rates effective March 1 If you would
send out to the men on the road state
ment showing the status of your negotia-
lions with me on that date. This PROPOSE
ton seemed to be faVorably received and
you asked me to draft form of circular
covering my ideas. This was done and
the following circular drafted, viz:
After several conferences with the
general manager, he has agreed to make
increases OF pay of IS per cent for freight
men and II per cent for passenger men,
effective March I, as follows:
g For through freight and mixed trains:
conductors ..-............. 50 81
Way freight conductors a;......::. $50
Mountain runs between SkykomiSh
and LeaYenworth ............... $50
Passenger train conductors ....... .140. 90
Brakemen Observation-Disclosures. q So
Passenger brakemen east of minot. g. 80 80
After it five five yea Years service in that ca
West of Minot ........... 70. 90
With increase to ................... rs. 90
After five years
Train baggagemen $50 per month.
New Chicago schedule for yardmen
will also be made effective at the same
time:
" The general manager refuses to con-
cede the request of the committee with
regard to double-header trains, and the
committee will continue in session here
until that matter is satisfactorily adjust
ed and also other schedule concessions
that have not yet been taken up.
"'This circular is issued in order that
the men on the line may be advised of
the present situation. and that they may
secure at the earliest date possible the
benefit of the increased rates of pay.
States the Facts.
s"Your committee agreed with me that
the foregoing circular correctly stated the
facts. and 1 understood l would receive
on that date formal advice of accept
ance. Instead 1 was advised that your
committee had decided to reject the prop
oSition.
"AIl of my offers were then withdrawn.
81 now beg to renew the offer above
referred to, effective on the first day OF
the month following its acceptance.
with the exception of the use OF help
er engines on mountain grades, 1t is the
practice of this company to run only
single engine trains 50 that the question
YOU raise in regard to double-headerS has
no practical application to conditions on
our line and L suggest therefore that the
clause in your proposition referring Ihefe-
to be withdrawn
1.-The Chicago scale of pay for yardmen
has already been granted, so that feature
of your request is eliminated.
1.-The foregoing proposition grants to
our men higher percentage of increase
than has been granted by other lines,
and is made in the hope. that it will prove
entirely satisfactory to them. Yours truly,
-"F. Z. Ward, General Manager"
Ask for the Poll.
On April 20 the committeeman noti-
fled Mr. Ward that his offer was not
satisfactory, and unless he complied
with the entire demand before o'clock
that afternoon the matter would be
turned over to the grand officers for
adjustment. The following day, after
the matter had been transferred to
Messrs. Garretson and Newman, Mr..
Ward sent the following letter, to the
committeeman. urging that if they were
not empowered to settle, that the ques-
ton be at once referred to the men, and
that poll be secured as early as pos
sible.
Replies to Committee.
est. Paul, Mimi. April 21.-Mr. D. F.
Miller, Chairman Conductors Committee;
Mr. James w. Woolley, Chairman, Train
mems Observation-Disclosures 1 have
your letter of this date. am also in re-
and Newman. to which L will make sep
arate reply.
Il cannot, however, let the matter drop
without calling your attention to a few
matters which seem to have been over
| looked by your committee.
Admitting, as l believe you do that
| there is no question between us but that
| of pay for double-neader trains or the
alternative of agreeing to abandon their
use, [ cannot understand your unwilling
ness or inability to give me reasons why
or trainman worth twice as much on a
train hauled by two engines as on a train
hauled by one engine, or why an alter
native you should ask us to agree not to
| run double-headers.
MY first question you have never an
swered. either by letter or verbally at
| our conferences [ assume, therefore,
that you have no reason for your request,
or that if you nave one you are unwilling
to tell it.
my second question has been answered
nv I1n etc for do
though no grievance, as regards double
may attempt to nnlify the adV a 9ps to
its men of the increases of pay it offers
by inaugurating the double-heading sys-
tenn. You did not explain how the in
auguration of Misunderstanding could null
lily an increase in pay, and 1 am unable
to fathom the reasons which lead to such
conclusion. | told you. what you al
ready know. that the Great Northern
does now follow the practice of double