The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-10
ELEVATED AGREEMENT SIGNED
THE UNIONS NOT ALL PLEASED
WITH THEIR VICTORY.

His Name 10 the Document, and the
Firemen Are Not -Motorinen-
Engineers Get All, They Complain.
The elevated railway strike crisis is over
at last. An agreement was signed ut $50
o'clock yesterday afternoon after another
session which lasted something like four
hours, and which for the most part was de-
voted to wraugling among the labor union
representatives themselves over what each
had got or had failed to get for his respec-
tive organization.
And yet, as the agreement now stands
II does not cover all the labor organiza-
tions concerned Az was reported yesterday
morning, Mr.. Mahon, national head of the
Amalgamated Association OF Street and
Electric Railway Employees, was averse to
binding his organization to three years
contract He remained in that frame OF
mind up to the last and resolutely refused
to affix his signature to the agreement.
"Mr. Pepper signed the agreement for
the local organization, he said, but his
signature covers only the rate OF wages
Amalgamated association men who go to
work in the subway are to get. 1t does not
cover the three years agreement. On that
point the Amalgamated association re-
mains just where It was at the beginning
of the discussion.
I'VE had an agreement-not written
agreement-with the elevated railway
company which was to run for year.
That year will be up on March next That
agreement still stands 30 far as our men
who 90 to work in the subway are concerned,
excepting, of course, those who 60 to work
as motormen. All other subway ANAL
gamated men are only under the agreement
which runs until March ].
1.-THE whole thing is settled" said General
Manager Bryan Of the marlborough COM
pany The national officers Of the brother
hoods Of locomotive fremen and loco
motive engineers signed the agreement.
Mr.. Mahon, national chief Of the Amalga-
mated association, did not sign it. The
agreement applies only to the subway
employees, and Amalgamated association
men who 60 TO work in the subway as motor
men come under the time limit OF the con-
tract Those who are employed in the sub
way in other capacities do not come under
that time limit.
THE agreement as it stands is in about
twenty clauses and is in general way
almost exactly like the agreement we have
with the motormen on the elevated. The
motormen get $3.50 per day for ten hours
work, the physical examination remains
the same standard examination we have
always had, and the time limit up to which
elevated railroad men may apply for sub
way positions has been fixed at Sept. H..
The wrangling among the representa-
tives Of the labor organizations became 70
warm once or twice in the afternoon that
Mr.. Bryan went out telling them he would
be back in twenty minutes or half an hour
and that they might settle their disputes
among themselves.
The more the Anal gamated men and the
fremen thought over the matter the more
convinced they became that they had
acted merely as holsters TO the motormen' 8
demands, and that in all Of Mr. Belmont
generous surrender Of pretty much every
thing that was wanted they somehow
were overlooked in the division Of the as
sets In fact they argued, there had been
no division of Assets; the motormen had
got everything. All that the other fellows
had to show was the glory of having helped
them get it. They were not disposed to
view with entire complacency pure glory
az their allowance Of the loot.
Charles s. H. Wilson OF the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen seemed TO
think that the arrangement somehow left
something to be desired, yet his name led
the list Of yesterdays signers of the agree
ment.
So far as the Amalgamated men are con-
oerned, they will be in position to make
whatever new wage demands they choose
after March ], 1904, but apparently the
engineers and fremen are barred-so far
as agreements with labor organizations
go--from supporting, by strike at least,
any demands the Amalgamated men might
make. With the motormen sticking to them
the railway officials would not have very
much to fear from a strike confined to
Amalgamated association men only.
Police Commissioner McAdoo was Of
ficially notified yesterday by General Man
ager Bryan OF the marlborough Rapid
Transit Company that the strike had been
averted. The Commissioner promptly
gave orders that all policemen who were
on reserve duty for the strike could 60
home The men doing reserve duty on &C.
count OF the beef strike will be relieved
from that duty this morning.