The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-09
SUBWAY PACT NOT SIGNED YET
Ely THE UNIONS HAVEN'T
FOUND OUT ALL THEY WANT.
Tnere's That Physical Examination: IL
won't Do-And the Interborough's
s.Year Clause-Leaders Can't Promise
No strikes for 80 Long-Mshon wants
an s.HouF Day-More Conferences Set.

an s.HouP Day-More Conferences Set.
The contract which was to settle all the
matters at issue between the labor unions
operating the elevated railway in Man
haitian and The Bronx and August Bel
mont, the leader Of the Democratic cam
paign and president OF the marlborough
Rapid Transit Company, which runs those
roads, Is still unsigned.
There was ano Their five hour session
at the Offices OF the marlborough COM
pany yesterday afternoon and there is to
be another session to-day. At the end Of
Yesterdays session General Manager Bryan
Of the marlborough said everything was
settled and that all that remained to do
was to affix the signatures Of the contract
Ing parties.
At the end of the session the day before,
Mr. Bryan said the same thing. He was
then convinced that the trouble was all
over. The labor leaders also were con-
vinced that the trouble was all over.
They said so. Mr.. Wilson, the national
representative OF the Brotherhood Of Lo-
connective Firemen, said furthermore that
the labor union representatives had got
everything they wanted.
That was on Wednesday evening. At 2
Supt Hedley Of the marlborough and the
labor leaders, with the exception Of Chief
Stone, OF the Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Engineers, who went out of town on Wednes-
day night, again met at Mr.. Bryan's Office,
to 70 through what had been announced to
be the perfunctory Formally Of affixing
their signatures to the typewriter agree
ment to which all had given their assent
the night before.
But at the outset it was evident that
there was q hitch. The labor leaders had
had night to think the matter over. They
had discovered few more things they
wanted which had not occurred to them
in the general cleanup OF Wednesday.
They did not like, for one thing, the dispo-
stion that had been made Of the physical
examination question They had been
In an afrable mood after Mr.. Belmont's sur
render Of the vital issue at stake, and had
let the physical examination matter go by
In about the shape the company wanted it.
But yesterday afternoon the union lead
ers took a more businesslike view Of the
matter. The standard physical examina-
ton Is searching and reduces to a minimum
the chances Of man getting a responsible
position unless he is physically fit for 1t In
every particular This examination the
labor leaders at the conference yesterday
regarded as too drastic. They wanted the
physical examination item in the contract
to which they had agreed the day before
materially modified. To this demand the
representatives Of the company ventured.
In deprecatory way, some objection.
Just how the matter was settled In the
second full and complete agreement reached
last evening was not made public Mr..
Jencks, chief OF local los OF the Brother
hood OF Locomotive Engineers, when
asked about it at the close Of the conference,
said:
AS to the physical examination matter
the company has agreed to treat US right.
and we are going to see that II does
On behalf Of the company 1t was said
that there had been no yielding in the
physical examination matter At the third
full and complete agreement, to be reached
at the conference this afternoon, pre-
sumably judging from Mr.. Jencks's re-
mark, this question will come up again,
together with what other things the labor
leaders may have thought Of during the
night as/being desirable to have added to
the terms Of Mr.. Belmont's surrender.
There was still another snag yesterday
In the way Of signing the contract as fully
agreed to the night before. Mr.. Mahon,
the head OF the Amalgamated Association
81 Electric ard Street Railroad Employees,
had objected all along to the clause which
made the contract binding for three years
He did not wish 70 bind The members Of
his organization the conductors, train
men. ticket agents. ticket choppers and
porters-to 30 long an abstention from
making still further demands. He again
raised this objection at the conference
yesterday.
1t was in discussing this point that the
greater part OF yesterday afternoons Ave
hour session was devoted. In explanation
OF Mr.. Mahon's attitude, a member Of his
organization who was not at the confer
enoe said last evening:
.Mahon liant going to tie us down to any
three years agreement. He has got
thing or two up his sleeve. just as soon
as the subway gets In full operation he Is
going to organize It from the bottom up
and have men OF our organization in all
the places. When he has got all that ar
ranged to suit him he is going to have a
reduction in our hours. 1t isn't going to
be any nine hour game. either. We are
going to demand an eight hour day and II
we don't get II we are going to strike for 1t.
THE Brotherhood OF Firemen and the
Brotherhood Of Engineers are going to stand
by US, too. They've got to. We stood by
them in this deal and they've got to stand
by us when we come in for our whack.
What have w got out OF this whack2
just exactly nothing at all. The engineers
who will have the motormen's places got
everything this time. They got their $3.50
q day and, o. course, they're satisfied.
Blu, nobody else got anything. The fire.
men II they get to be mQtormen come in
on the $3.50 a day, too. We stand just
where we were. Mahon isn't going to let
1t go at that. You can be sure he'll be
heard from when the right time comes
All that General Manager Bryan would
say as TO the way all Of these issues ofyester-
day were settled was that everything" bad
been agreed to. Mr.. Mahon went to New
Haven last evening, but probably will be
back to-day. He could not be found after
the conference to be questioned as to the
way the three year controversy was dis
posed Of IL like the physical examination