Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-25
Central Brakemen Wage Scale
S Per Cent Better Than the
Old-Conference Renewed
COMPROMISE is EFFECTED
Committee Was Holding for an In
crease of About 10 Per Cent or STAN
dard Wases--Two Men For the
Branch Trains-Terminal Pay Now
Under Discussion.

II fhS a result OF the TWO weeks COulel
ence between General Superintendent
M. Sweeney, of the Central, and the
committee representing the Brother
hood of Railroad Trainmen, which has
been in progress at Oskaloosa, the
brakemen on the line will receive an
increase In pay. A compromise mas
been affected covering the wage clause
Of the new schedule, which gives the
men a new scale per cent greater
than the old. Other concessions were
also granted the men working on the
branch trains.
By the new schedule the brakemen
in the freight service will receive the
following scale of wages per 100
miles: Two dollars and twenty cents
on thru freights 1927 on local freights
and $2.31 on work trains. The old
scale for the same work was 500,
s2.16 and 1920. On the Story City and
Algona branches two brakemen will be
placed on each freight train, instead OF
one. This was another point for which
the committee was contending.
Conference Still On.
All of the details Of the new schedule
have not, however, been agreed upon
and Mr.. Sweeney passed thru the city
this morning on his way to Oskaloosa,
where he again meets the committee
today. The principal clauses which
remain unsettled are those covering the
nav at terminal stations, and while
working on double header" freight
trains. The committee is asking that
brakemen be granted double pay Wlleh
working on trains pulled by two en-
gines, owing to their size. 1t also asks
nav at the regular rate where prahe-
men do switching in making up trains
at terminals. 1t also wishes pay ioi
brakemen while they are waning a'
terminals for their train to be mace up
by switchmen. Their demand is pay
from the time they are callea untii
reaching the destination.
Fourth Vice President Il. L. New
man. of the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen, Is still in Oskaloosa win
the committee, which is composed OF
conductor J. w. C. Waddell, and r. Y.
Parker and r. G. Saylor.
New York View Of Merger.
The New York Globe tells at length
IF the rumored proposed merger Oh .le
chicago & Northwestern and Chlcaso
Great Western railways, which was
announced in a special from Chicago
to the T.-R. last week. The rumor
annears to have considerable weight IN
financial circles in the metropolis, anu
Wall street, in showing much inter
est in the proposed deal. The GLOBE
says:
conferences between Marvin Hugh
,tt president Of the Chicago & North
western railway and A. B. Stlckney,
president and principal owner OF the
Chicago Great Western, have been
held in this city within the last few
DAYS relative to the proposed merger
of the Stickney road with the North
western system. Mr.. Stickney has a.
greed to sell the Great Western, ana
there is good reason to believe that a
definite offer has been made for the
control. The Vanderbilts as the DOM
mating interest in the Chicago q
| Northwestern and the Rockefellers as
the dominating interest in the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul are rep
resented in the pending negotiations
"Both Mr.. Hughttt and Mr.. Stick
ney have returned to the west and it
is expected that the Great Western
president will lay the Vanderbilt
rockefeller proposition before his
board of directors as soon as meet
ing can be called. 1t Is stated by Mr..
Stickney's friends that he is anxious
to sell his holdings in the Great West
ern and retire from the activities Of
railroad work, for a time at least. The
southern part Of the Stickney road
will be of greater advantage
to the Chicago & Northwestern
than to any of the other
big western railroad systems. 1t
will afford the Vanderbilt road as good
connections with Kansas City and ad-
jacent points as are possessed by any
of it's rivals, and it will also put the
Northwestern in touch with many other
important traffic points south Of Oma-
ha. The Great Western would like
wise give the Northwestern direct line
from Chicago to st. Joseph, Mo.
cit is the current belief in Wall
street that the northern portion of the
Chicago Great Western will go to the
st. Paul system, the line from Oelwein,
Iowa. to Omaha, to be used Jointly by
the Northwestern and the st. Paul.
There is also probability that the
Wisconsin Central in which the Rock
efellers have large interest, will
figure in this deal. The result Of the
proposed change in control of the
Stickney road would be to re-establish
harmony in freight rate matters In the
territory between Chicago and the
Twin Cities and Missouri river points.
The Chicago Great Western has for
many years been denounced by the
other western railroads as a chronic
rate cutter.
ut is announced officially that the
Chicago & Northwestern management
has completed arrangements for the
immediate construction of about 200
miles Of extensions thru Wisconsin
The present route between Green Bay
and Chicago is to be considerably
shortened"