New-York tribune., 1904-09-02
CONFERENCE In VAIN.
TIE STTU1TION SERIOUS.
Engineers officers See Belmont
Stones Statement to the Public.

Expectations that tho differences between the
elevated railway motorrnen and the INTERIOR
ough Rapid Transit Company would be amicaDly
Eettied at a second conference with August Bel
mont were oissipated yesterday. when the dozen
oficiais who represented the mctormen fled out
of the Belmont home. No lii East Thirty
fourth-st For two hours they and Mr.. Belmont
had argued without result.
Grand Chief Stone Of the engineers declared
that the situation serious though he still
hoped a strike would be averted. Chief Jencks
of the local organization said action regarding
strike would not be taken Ior forty-eight hourx
Ar. Belmont confirmed the statement that no
agreement had been reached. He declared that
he knew nothing Of further conferences, and IN
timsted that if there was 10 be further discus
sion the overtures must come from the men.
He would not say whether or not a compromise
had been offered by either side.
Chief Stone issued the following statement ~
the public:
Transit Company ask that the wage scale and
2oIrs OF labor now in effect on the Interborough
only $ for ten hours be extended % the subway
operated oy the same corporation. The statement
that we are asking for an increase in wages is
MLons ss ths wage scale has been in existence for
ge3sS Ahy rsllroad bnlding or leasing new line $
sppAes the wage scale in effect TO the acquire
should be done here The claim Of the Company
Enst they can set all the motormen they want at
81 sense but what kind OF notorrlen viii tbev
rate they coua ID eiO a get me8 @ 0'erea sun lower
. - Is the intention OF The ooInpany 70 put in a
he Unted states ana the ONLY questoa 'i that @ t5e
company should consider, and one OF vital impor-
y appears 70 me that motorrnan in charge Of one
et express train speed earring from oo 10 500 lives
should be the best that can be procured. and I
understood the inportsaee Of The anestion an stake
they would demand that the best motormen pos
SlGDie oe sUppneo 10 man rhese trains.
the record OF the Interbrough. where they handle
Tllon people each day in safety It's ali mere
handle one Hght car weighing twenty tons running
st a speed OF ten fifteen miles hour, with
one OF the subway trains of 500 tons running at
& TIE sse @ any a s & n e9 rseo snn @ say can 5Re @ o S
ne subway ana do the work. There would be just
always run a switeher in the yard would be good
man to send out with the Empire State Express.
What further negotiations VIII there he with
The company" Mr. Stone was asked
The negotiations have been chcked off," he
answered.
Are you counting on politics to help you
out?'
go far as we are concerned. politics does not
enter into this matter. I told Mr. Belmont so
yesterday. That statement was given out by
some one who had no authority"
The local union viii meet in Horton Hall. No.
10 East ne-hundred-and- twenty -fifth-st. this
morning
william L. Jencks said at the close of the
meeting:
We have had our last conference with Mr. Bel
Enont or our own seeking. The next move in that
and have so told him. We are out for IS 50 a day
and pine hours work, and viii go 10 extremes to
you may draw your own conclusions. I viii be in
Of our intentions sfter The meetings TT
any event We shall stand by our original demand.