The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1910-11-18
railroads SOUTH, WEST AND
NORTH OF CHICAGO May
BE AFFECTED.
81 ROADS ARE INVOLVED
Sepotistiors fer Settlement End. ard
Vote Is TO be Taken-hsnee in
Work Conditions ard Wage
Advance Asked.

Chicago, ulinois-A strike vcte viii
se taken among engineers Of sixty one
7aitroa6s west south and north Of Chi
ago, including the Illinois Central fol-
owing termination OF negotiations 0f
.wean the roads and grand officers OF
he Brotherhood OF Locomotive Eng
1eers which had been in session since
Sept Is Difference On wage increases
If approximately Z per Gen and alter
alton of working conditions stand be-
.Eeen the negotiato-s-
Grand Chief Warren s. Stone. Of the
brotherhood. who has been Leading the
-ailroad men in their demands, said
ae believed the strike vote would De
unanimously II favor Of suspension OF
york and that the englzelsn would
have expressed their desire by Dec
10. Immediately thereafter he said, a
asst opportunity would be given the
railroads TO meet tie workers and II
hey ignored that opportunity. within
i've hours every engine west of Chi
ago, on aIl branches of service, would
Dc stiIled and the fires drawn ard out
If the thousands OF cabs would step
every driver On duty
The Representatives Of the engine
men il the TWENTY-FIVE conferences
Ehich ended without result we're
Warren s Stone. grand chief. and Ash
Kennedy. r. A Burgess. L COrrisan.
NJ W Cadle. and s. z Wills, assistant
grand chiefs. Brotherhood Of LocoIo-
i've Engineers
Their negotiations received the ad
vice of fifty division managers Of the
brotherhood who directly represented
the smaller councils Of the order
oHScisIs At Conference
Railroad officials as follows heard
The engine drivers demands w B.
Scott, Of the Union Pacific; r. z.
Ward, Of the Burlington lines. r c.
Ratehel6er, Of the Chicago Terminal,
Baltimore & Ohio; w. A Durham. OF
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas. r III.
Emerson OF the Great Northern; T. J.
Foley. of the Illinois Central. r C.
Fox, Of the Atchison. Topeka & Santa
Pc; Grant Hall. OF the Canadian Pa.
cifc: H J. Simmons. of the Fl PasC
& Southwestern. and A w Trenholm,
IF the Chicago, St Paul Minneapolis
and Omaha
Tie whole question arose from tie
decision OF the elgine-nen themselves
IN convention al Detroit. Mich. last
spring In a three weeks session il
vas decided that the existing wage
scale in effect since February. 1891.
unsatisfactory and that working
conditions had been imposed DIV rail-
roads which should be eliminated. The
grand officers were named TO III the
railroads and present the demands
The general working conditions OF
which the engine drivers complain in
clD6e. among other things, the follow
ing
Drivers Of the ga1lat compound en-
gines. which DO practically the work
Of two engines and entail q CORES
p~onfIngly greater responsibility and
caPab8lHty. receive the same wages as
ether drivers OF high power engines Of
much lesser capacity.
The magnitude of the wage question
is evidenced By . statement by the
employees that the = per cent wage diff
ference E0w standing between the
drivers and the railroads means ap-
p~roximately s2.s06.0 $50 a year. The
cos Of alterations Of the working
conditions minor considerations in the
conference, would be less than s5e0.
EgH, il Eas asserted