, 1907-04-12
TROUBLES
AT AN END
OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES OF
UNION PACIFIC SETTLE DIFF
FACULTIES AND AT REST.
Representatives Of Trainmen and En-
oinemen sign Contracts With Gen.
eraI Manager In Accordance With
tbs Chicago Aereement-The First
Overland Steel Mail Car.

Representatives Of the trainmen,
switchmen and iremen are in confer
ence with the officials of the Union Pa
cifc in Omaha, signing up agreements
under the schedule, which were recent
ly adopted at the Chicago conferences
between the representatives Of the men
and the committee of general mana
gers, says the Omaha Bee. The onfer-
ences are being held with Su%perintend.
ent Park and General Manager Mohlei.
All Differences Settled.
All differences with the men are now
settled, IS the switchmen were includ-
ed in the agreement, which was made
with the Order Of Railway Trainmen.
The engineers difficulties were the
ing reached about two months ago.
The firemen came to ar understanding
with the managers at the same time as
the trainmen, SO all difficulties with the
employees of the operating department
are adjusted.
SSl OIiioIIH ndiSS.
The pay for freight conductors is the
same all over the west and they will
get uniform raise. Freight con.
ductors were formerly paid $3.45 per
100 miles run and the pay will now be
1919 per 100 miles. The difference in
the pay of the men is that the older
and better men are given the better
rum on which they can make their
hundred miles in less than the newer
men, who are given the slower freights,
on which there are more delays and
also more switching to do.
The freight brakemen on the Union
Pacific paid $3.50 and will now re.
ceive $3.50 per 100 miles. The passen-
ger conductors on the main line of the
Union Pacific were getting $14O a
month and they will be raised to $3.50
a month. The Burlington main line
conductors are paid the same as the
Union Pacific. Other roads vary.
Main Line Passenger Men.
Main line passenger brakemen OF
the Union Pacific were paid from $72
to $84 a month under the old schedule
and the pay will be raised to $40 to 800
a month.
Switchmen demanded a raise last
fall and were granted an increase No
vember 1 of 4 cents per hour, So the
pay of switchmen is now the same on
all roads, the day foreman receiving 35
cents an hour. the day helper 80 cents
an hour, the night foreman 81 cents
an hour and the night helper "a cents
an hour.
Committees are still figuring on how
the: increase will affect the fremen, to
whom a uniform increase, of % cents
per 100-mile day was granted. The pay
of a fireman varies according to the
size Of the engine he has to fire and
according to the distance over which
he runs.
The pay of brakemen on the Burling-
to the run.
a New Steel Mail Car.
The first new all steel mail car to be
built by the Union Pacific is complet-
ed and Wednesdays was OF exhibition
on the Union Pacific tracks in front of
the headquarters building at Ninth and
Farnam streets. 1t was built in its
entirety at the UnionslPacifc shops in
Omaha under thessuperxision ofdW. r.
,McKeen, superintendent of;a motive
power and machinery Of the road,sand
is q model of construction. All wood
had been eliminated from this car,
even the floors being of cement, while
the roof and sides and ends are all
sheet steel. The car is provided with
every modern convenience known to
the builders art and is practically
ff%reproof, besides being of such solid
construction as o-add imme s%asurably
to the safety of the mail clerks, who
occupy a dangerous position in the
wooden mail cars, which are placed
just behind the engine and ahead of
the string Of heavy passenger cars. The
car looks as If it would Withstand any
kind Of a collision without buckling
and the danger from splinters is entire
ly eliminated. This is the first of mum
erous cars, which are to be built in
the Omaha shops, as coon as the facili.
ties, which are now under construc-
ton are complete.