The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23
TO ARBITRATE OYER 1 CENT.
YARDMEN AND RAILROADS REACH
AN AGREEMENT.

Four Cents an Hour Advance Accepted and
aJolnt Board WIN Take I'D the Further
Increase Next Month-Eight Roads
and s. xOO Men Interested in Result
There will be no strike OF the $500 yard
conductors and brakemen employed at the
New York terminals Of the eight railroads
in the General Managers Association
These railroads are the Jersey Central,
Erie, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, Delaware.
Lackawanna and Western. Baltimore and
Ohio, Long Island and Staten Island.
At a meeting yesterday Of representa-
| tives Of the Brotherhood of Railway Train
men and Of the railroads IL was agreed that
the men should accept the four cents an
hour increase offered by the roads and
that the demand for an extra cent an honr
should be arbitrated. Both sides selected
yesterday arbitrators, who will meet In
January. The four cents increase viii data
back to December 1 and IL the man win
the extra cen will be paid from the same
date.
This agreement was cached after som
f~erences lasting with a few intermissions
from a little after II A. M. to p. NJ The
meetings were held at las Liberty street.
This statement was given out after the
meetings were over:
Negotiations between the New York
harbor yardmen, through the committees
headed by Grand Master p. H. Morrisey
and Fourth Vice-Grand Master James
Murdoch, and the managers resulted In q
satisfactory adjustment of matters under
discussion, and the best Of good feeling pre-
walls, the men and the officers wishing
zach other before adjournment a merry
Christmas and a happy New Year
Thu conferences started first in the Offices
of W. q. Besler, vice-president and general
manager OF the Jersey Central. The rail-
roads were represented by Mr.. Besler and
c. w. Huntington, general superintendent
Of the Central Jersey; J. @. Stuart, general
manager OF the Erie; M. b. Cutter. general
manager. OF the Lehigh; George H. Camp
bell, general superintendent Of the Staten
Island Railroad, INT T. E. Clarke, general
superintendent, and G. II. Ketcham, dis
trict superintendent, Of the D.. l.. q w.
The committee of the men. which was
headed by Morrisey and Murdoch. included
also p. NJ. Walsh and j. H. Sanderson for
the Erie, W. j. Walsh and M. Cunningham
for the Delaware, Lackawsnna and Western;
P. J. Clarke and James Hefernan for the
Lehigh, c.. B. Barton for the Staten Island
Railroad, F. +. Humphrey for the Penn
~sylvania and William Wittenbert and +. A.
Kiley for the Central Railroad of New
Jersey.
Before the meeting MorTisey said thst
there was still a chance for arbitration.
Fourth Vice-Grand Master Murdoch. Wild
seemed to have experienced a change Of
| heart since the day before, said the same.
The members Of the committee adjourned
for luncheon at 3 p. M. and resumed the
meeting at 4:35 in the Offices Of the Trunk
Lines Association on the fourth o OF
the building. In about an hour the COM
mittee OF the men went to another room.
TO discuss some propositions which had been
made. The representatives OF the managers
hung around for an hour, when the COM
mittee of the men returned and the oon-
ferences started again, lasting with a few
more intermissions until a settlement was
reached.
Word was at once sent to the men at
the different yards that a settlement was
| reached. The New York Central had
granted the 5 cents an o advance be-
fore any trouble was threatened and the
other roads, with the exception OF the Long
Island and Staten Island roads, which
offered 3 cents an hour advance. had
| offered an advance Of 4 cents an hour. The
Pennsylvania, which had previously adj
vanced the wages Of all its employees, was
the last 20 make the 4 cent offer.