Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-07

Pennsylvania Railroad Co. Makes .
oompromiss With Employees.

Eenn4ylvan1a Railroad Go. Makes
0ompromfss With Employees.
PHII.AnEIRH March 1.-The differ
ences between the Pennsylvania railroad
and Its trainmen. which for q time threat
ansd to precipitate strtks. were settled
yesterday Ut = conference between General
Manager Attefbury Of the railroad and the
trainmen's grievance committee. Conces-
stons were made BIZ both the railroad and
the trainmsn.
The trainmen demanded the Pittsburg
rate of pay and conditions Of working In
all yards east of Pittsburg and Erie. The
rates for Pfttsburg are IS cents an hour for
day conductors and % cents an hour for
and 81 cents an hour for night brakemen.
The railroad had offered to pay in all
yards outside Of the Pittsburg and Jersey
city districts 80 cents for day and "a cents
for night conductors. and % cents for day
and % cents an hour for night brakemen.
The railroad at the conference yesterday
agreed to extend the Pittsburg rates to
district within a radius of about forty-five
miles of PittsburR. The trainmen agreed
to accept the rates previously offered by
the railroad outside the specified sections.
BY the extension Of the district in which
the PittsburR rate will prevail employees
on the main line and west Pennsylvania
division as far east as Blairsville intersec
ton. the Allegheny valley division as far
north as Kittany. including. the Kittany
yard. the entire Monongahela division and
the southwest branch Of the Pittsburg divis-
ION will be affected.
The total number OF men affected by the
extension Of the Pittsburg yard district rate
is 900. while the total number of employees
Of the Pennsylvania classed as trainmen,
including freight and passenger. yard and
road conductors. brakemen, ffagmen and
baggagemen. on lines east Of Pittsburg and
Erie. is 1900.
The railroad company. in an official state
ment issued last night. says that the in
creases 1t has granted to all employees on
lines east Of PittSburg and Erie approx
mate an annual increase of nearly $11.-
100000 ~.
Prior to December the wages Of train
men were % cents an hour for day conduc-
tors and q for night conductors. and 20
and q cents for day and night brakemen.
All employees were then granted q fiat in
crease of 10 per cent. The trainmen asked
for an increase because they said that the
IL per cent increase did not give them an
increase proportfonate with that of other
employees whose wages were greater The
railroad then offered the rate now generally
prevailing. and in addition agreed at Erie
and Buffalo. where the road comes in con-
tact with competing lines. to pay the rate
of the competing lines. which Is slightly
above that given in the Pittsburg district.
The annual increase to the trainmen, 1t Is
said amounts to about 81 10000.
Rigors' Detective Agency, which has been
employing men in anticipation of a strike
on the Pennsylvania railroad, received in
structions from Philadelphia Tuesday aft
ernoon. to pay of the men they had en-
ployed. as all danger of a strike was at
an end. The men will get 81 a day for
the time they have been on the pay roll.
They are passenger brakemen and yardmen.