The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-22
RAILROAD NEWS.
Carmen Obtain Further Con-
cessiOns from Santa Fe.
Slight Increase in Wages to
Conform to Other Roads.
GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE
Completes a Two Weeks Session
In This City.
New List Of Rules for Whole
Santa Fe System.
GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE

A committee composed of representa-
lives of those members of the Brother
hood OF Railway Car Men who are in
the employ OF the Santa Fe railroad
have been in the city for the last two
weeks i'm conference with George r.
Henderson superintendent of motive
power Tor the Santa Fe, in regard to a
raise in wages and several changes IN
the list of rules and regulations ap-
pertaining 10 the treatment of the car
repair men an over the system by the
company The meetings have been held
every day with the exception of several
days when MIR Henderson went to Chi
cago to confer with the officials there
About dozen meetings ia all have been
held all of which were attended by Mr.
Henderson and the 20 men who were
here from all over the road in the in
terest of the other members of the
brotherhood. lt is stated that every
tAlrs went off smoothly and that there
was n0 Quarreling between the ofiicia is
and the men although the committee
was rather long winded and the usual
amount Of controversy was gone
through with.
The committee was composed of men
all over the system Some came from
California and the Texas lines others
from Colorado and still others from
Chicago were here IL is stated that
one of the national officers of the
LrotherhocL was here during the con-
ference bun he took no part in the meet
inss or the final settlement The last
meeting was held ON Thursday. the
men and the officials finally coming to
satisfactory agreement
In regard to the concessions which
the men asked the Santa Fe to make
and the new schedule of wages and list
of rules and regulations which were
finally agreed upon. George R. Hender-
son, superintendent of motive power for
the santa Zee. said yesterday:
There has been no great diSsatisfac-
ti0n among the 1000 car men now in the
employ of the Santa Fe. They had
simply discovered that in few cases
which they cited while here other rail-
roads were paying little more for this
class of labor than the Santa Fe. This
together with demand for new list
0f rules and regulations constituted all
that they asked. In those cases where
IT, was found that our wages did not
equal those of other railroads i'm the
Same locality and where we thought an
increase would be advisable, the wages
of the men were raised. Some of these
were raises of only few cents an hour
but it brings the wages Of the Santa Fe
uu To- the standard and that was all
the men asked An entire new schedule
has been arranged. Wees now paid to
car men hy the Santa he range from IL
cents TO 30 cents an hour according to
the class of work done
Another thing that the committee
asked was that the list of rules and
regulations under which the car men
work be changed They said that men
in different localities were governed by
different rules and that some were
treated better than others Although
the old list of rules and regulations has
not been changed materially "a new list
has been arranged which viii govern
The car men of the whole system. All
Of them viii be treated alike. The
changes that have been made viii go
into effect on August j.