The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-04


differences Was Formula ed-Signed |
by Intcrboroush Oficials and VIII BE
signed by Labor Leaders-FayOrs VIII |
he shown TO Old Elevated Engineers
II They Take Up Service Underground.
but the Rate OF Pay VIII He ga for Ten
Hours Instead OF $3.50 for Nine Hours,
as cmanded-seniOrityt to Count in Ger !
tain Cases-Other Minor Concessions.
Unless some new phase in the situation
develops between now and tomorrow, it
may be confidently said that all danger Of
a strike on the elevated railroad is over.
saresult of two conferences held yester-
day afternoon and last evening, a basis Of
agreement between the marlborough COM
pany and its employees was reached by
which all the differences between the two
We're amicably settled
The marlborough company does not re-
cede from its position that the rate OF pay
for the subway motormen shall be - for
q day OF ten hours The demand Of the
elevated railway motormen that the sub
way rate be $3.50 for nine hours was as
resolutey rejected by the marlborough
company as it was at the beginning OF the
negotiations. The concessions the Inter-
borough company made which induced the
representatives Of the employees to yield
we're in the way Of special favors in the
matter Of hours for the old elevated motor
men who chose to go to work in the subway
service.
All this was definitely agreed upon in
a verbal way at a late conference held in
the marlborough company's office in the
Park Row Building. This agreement was
subsequently reduced to writing by the
marlborough company and signed by Mr..
Belmont Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Hedley. 1t
il also to be signed by Mr.. Stone Of the
Brotherhood OF Locomotive Engineers.
Mr.. Wilson of the Brotherhood OF Loco
motive Firemen and Mr.. Mahlon of the
AmaIgamated Association. The aff1xing
OF these last named signatures is fore
gone conclusion, because all OF the three
named gave their assent to the terms in
the verbal agreement. With their sig
natures attached, it will only remain to go
through certain formalities whereby the
agreement on the part of their representa-
tives will be ratified by the members them
selves of the three labor organizations in
volved, and when that is done, which will
not be later than Monday night, the last
vestige OF the trouble will be gone.
MAHoN BRINGS ABOUT pc ACE
1t was largely through the arrival in
town on Friday night of W. d. Mahon Of
Detroit head of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton Of Electric and Street Railway En-
poyees, that this sudden change in tho
outlook was brought about. Mr.. Mahon
from the moment he got here, expressed
afr n
bers of his organization joining in the strike.
Notwithstanding the fact that the 3,O85
members of the local union of the Amalga-
mated Association had voted practically
unanimously to stand by the action of
their committee even to the length Of going
on strike it would have been within Mr..
Mahon's authority to put his veto on such
a measure, and there is little doubt that he
would have done 80 had it been necessary
and that he would have called to his aid In
inducing the men to withdraw their action
the president of the American Federation
of Labor, Samuel Gompers.
NoIovE FOR THE BRoTHERHooDs
Mr. Mahon and other leaders OF the Anal
gamated Association have no particular
fondness for the brotherhood OF Locomotive
Engineers or the Brotherhood Of Isocomo-
tive Firemen Both he and they feel that
these two brotherhoods in times past have
shown too little interest in the aspirations
of the Amalgamated Association to warrant
that association in putting it's m embers to
inconvenience, and perhaps suffering for
the sole purpose of carrying on fight in
which the engineers were chiefly concerned
So Mr.. Mahon, when he got here, at once
set about using a Il his efforts to head of
strike, or to keep his men out Of it If it
came. 1t was through his efforts that the
two conferences of yesterday which brought
about the final settlement OF the trouble
were arranged.
Al the former conference, which occurred
last Thursday at noon in Mr.. Belmont's
residence, both sides parted with tho pretty
clearly defined understanding that that
was the end OF matters 80 far as an y further
efforts to come to peaceful agreement
were concerned. On the vital question
at issue as to the pay and hours Of the
subway motormen. Mr. Belmont had said
positively that he would not yield. On the
other hand Mr.. Stone and the committee
with him had made It clear to Mr.. Belmont,
Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Hedley that they would
make no co ncessions. The conferences,
in word, were all -off" and there remained
nothing to do save 60 through the for
Hidutes incident 10 serving III uitHha'uh
upon the marlborough compan and then,
in due order, the strike.
WAY OPENED FOR NEW CONFERENCE.
But the arrival OF Mr.. Mahon in his strong
ant-strike frame Of mind put a new COM
plexion on things. He had taken no part
in any OF the conferences that had gone
before. This fact cleared the way for an
application to the marlborough company
for new hearing, and it also cleared the
way for the PETERBOROUGH company TO grant
the hearing, even though the questions
to be discussed were the old ones which
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