Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-05-16
C. n. STRIKE IS AvERTED
Business Men Of the Ivla Cities E6aot
acompremlss: satisfactory to =.
Beth Sides.

ooSSnOSS men OF the JWt0 cletoS 86ooe
acempremlss Satisfactory to
Beth Sides.
The Great Northern railroad and it's
employees have reached satisfactory
agreement. That was the glad news
that reached US Friday morning. The
business world heaved great sigh of
relief, for the merchants would have
been the heaviest losers If strike had
come.
And it was the business men who
cleared the way for q settlement of the
difficulties.
Wednesday morning it looked like
war. Negotiations had been broken
of, and the strike order was expected
any hour. Then the st. Paul jobbers
took hold of the matter. They met
with the employees committee and in
duced them to stave of the strike Or
der for few hours. Then they inter-
viewed the railroad officials and ar
ranged for meeting between the OPP
posing parties in thel presence of q
committee of business men. All day
Thursday the meeting continued. At
$40 p. m. an agreement was reached
and signed.
The terms Of the agreement are:
Double heading will be allowed east
OF MinOt to the extent of one-haf of
one per cent or one double: header
train to each IO single engine trains.
West OF MlnOt the practice will be al
lowed to the extent OF $40 per cent.
Helper service Is to be included in the
percentage of double-headers allowed,
which will somewhat decrease the total
percentage.
The salary increase, which was not,
opposed by the road but granted will
ingly, is as follows:
Get tho Chicago Scale.
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 So SO day, an advance OF S cents
hundred miles over the l5 per cent
Increase asked by the men, and total
increase Of so cents day. Through
freight brakemen will receive 81. 80 q
day, or cents q hundred miles over
the Is per cent increase asked, and a.
total advance Of 90 cents over their
former wages. ',>''"
Local freight conductors will receive
$3.50 q day, an increase slightly over
| the Is per cent raise requested. Local
freight brakemen will receive S2.55 a
day, or the same proportionate ad-
vance as given the conductors in the
same class.
Mountain division freight conduct
| ors will hereafter receive 81. 30 q day
and freight brakemen In the same class
! $2.70, which is much IN excess of THE
Is per cent advance requested. 'rs,
p Passenger conductors salaries will
! be increased under the new schedule
from 1925 to Sl40 month, or an in
crease of IL per cent. Baggagemen
| will receive $50 month, which is also
| a II per cent increase. Passenger
brakemen's wages have been advanced
to a scale running from $3.50 to S75.
Men working east of Minot, in the
employ of the company less than
year, will receive the minimum, while
the employees west of that point will
receive $40. All passenger brakemen
will be paid SIS after they have been
with the company one year. -..'-''
| Inc duPduCoe Ia S1Adry 1Or ell en-
ployes will date back to March /, the
day that the Northern Pacific men re-
ceived their increase in pay. -"
The most important result of the
settlement is that it calls attention to
the tact that there are more than two
parties to labor trouble of this
kind. The merchants and the con-
sumers are the third and fourth party
to it. A railroad is public institu-
tion and the public have some rights
that must be considered. From the
standpoint of either the men or the
railroad company the victory is only
q partial one; for the business men
who interfered in the quarrel it is =
complete victory, and: ESTABLISHES .
precedent tor admitting the public -
q party to Ill such controversies in
"Ths Clouds Dresk." =,
The following bulletins posted in the
Crest Northern Offices here yesterday
were read by many employees with
| 01reat deal NJ. At afArE1fNn. ~ -;