The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-05-12

IL per cent and freight trainmen will
secure 10 per cent advance in wages.
Ihe canvass of the vote taken on
the Great Northern system as to
whether the general committee shall
be sustained in their prosecution of
the double header on the system has
been completed. The grand officers
however, refuse to make known the
result until after conference with
General Manager Ward, which will
probably be held tomorrow.
Mr.. Ward made number of con
cesslons, the most important of
which was an offer to agree that not
more than three per cent of the
trains On the whole system should
be run as double headers. This is
about the percentage now run.
The men are said to regard this
offer as liberal one. They say that
by the agreement entered into with
the Northern Pacific and Southern
Pacific those roads can run from
seven to 10 per cent double headers
If they choose. After the conference
with the general manager they held
meeting to discuss the proposals
made, but nothing definite was ac-
complished.
Minneapolis, May 11.-Indications
now are that there will be no strike
on the Great Northern 1t is true
that the conductors and trainmen on
all the divisions Of the system have
voted almost unanimously to sustain
the Great Northern general commit
tee, but there were developments
Sunday which point to a settlement
on terms which will be honorable to
both the company and the brother
hood. Great Northern conductors
and trainmen to the number of about
20, all of them association and repre-
sentative men among the employees,
but not members of the general COM
mlttee, held conference with Gen
eral Manager Ward Sunday afternoon
and went over the situation with him.
Mr.. Ward assured the men that the
company was not looking for trou-
BILE and that it stood ready to avert
lowed to retain the right to run
double header train, whenever the ex-
igencies demanded it.
Mr.. Ward went SO far as to agree
to insert clause in the schedule
binding the company to run double
headers to no greater extent that at
present, which is three per cent of all
trains.
He also agreed to adjust the wage
scale to conform to the schedule
agreed to by the management and
general committee early in the nego-
tiations. The men who met with
Ward had no authority to accept or
reject the proposition made by the
general manager, but they expressed
entire satisfaction with it.
A meeting of the general commit
tee and the men who called upon Mr..
Ward was held later, and Mr.. Wards
proposition was generally discussed.
Nothing definite was decided upon
and another meeting will be held this
morning at 9 o'clock. The general
VIII Will w dIu
today in order to lay before him the
result of the poll of the men on the
Great Northern system and to take
up with him a settlement of the
points in dispute. Mr.. Ward ex-
pressed confidence last evening in the
general outlook for a settlement
Havre, Mont, May 10.-At a confer
ence held here this afternoon be-
tween the division superintendent,
conductors and trainmen, the passen-
ger mems attitude showed that they
are willing to compromise or even
abandon the double header clause of
their demands upon the company, but
the freight men remained firm. The
probability is that strike ordered
would be obeyed by all the men, who
have strong influence upon the
committee at st. Paul. Some of the
men here resent the manner in which
they were called together by the SUI
perintendent., who virtually ordered
them to meet him. 1t is considered
that while a strike is probable it is
no certainty, and the attitude of the
men is becoming less aggressive.
They still consider the questions in
volved vital, but admit that they can
he sett1ad lafar