The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-08
STRIKE VOTE TO
Be TAKEN SOON


Is evidenced by statement by the en-
pioyes that the per cent wage differ
ence now standing between The drivers
ana the railroads means approximately
S2,60O.0OO year. The cost of altering
working conditions would be less than
100000. ii was asserted.
Must Fellow Instructions.
We Just reached the point where il
was evident we could not agree on
wage ana other questions, said Grand
Chief Stone of the brotherhood today.
When we started our negotiations we
little expected them to last so long.
Our powers 10 arrive at agreements
are restricted. however, by the fact
that in this case We are acting, not in
a dictatOrial sense, but simply as fol-
lowing out the expressed command of
the individual engineers. Hence we
have only the prescribed limits of
movement allotted us by the cOnVen-
ton.
The railroad committee OF ten as
serted directly that they could not APP
preach our terms, and there was sim
ply nothing left 10 do but TO ask our
men for an expression on their desire
TO strike. Since they unanimously di-
only reasonable that they Will vote
unanimously for a strike.
BY December 10 we will have the
ballots counted and viii present the
esult TO the railway men. They viii
have one GRANGE 10 meet the terms of
our men, and If thew refuse, 1 think
The strike order Will go out within
half an hour.
IF a strike is ordered. we can reach
every engineer, l believe. within five
hours, and on every one of the sixty
one roads every cab will be deserted
Immediately, and if you happen to be
have 10 get out and walk"
Statement of Managers.
Representatives OF the Association OF
Railway Managers, from which the
committee OF ten 10 treat with the en-
ginemen was drawn, said the statement
by Mr.. Stone was substantially cor
rect and added only the figures over
which the contention was waged.
When the conference began" said
Chairman w B. Scott of tie confer
mands approximated a % per cent in
crease. This finally was brought down
to II per cent. We finally agreed TO a
10 per cent increase, tOtaling $3.50, 900
and there we both stuck. The S625,-
600 increase they stuck out for was
more than we could concede"
Later il was made clear that the
roads which are parties to the wage
conference did not include all lines
west of Chicago. but the chief roads
west, south and north, and from Fort
Williams west in Canada, with the eX-
ception of the Wabash lines and several
minor systems.
Roads Involved.
The following list of the lines af-
fected was given out:
AtchisOn, Topeka & Santa Fe.
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Coast
lines.
Gulf. Colorado & Santa Fe.
Beaumont Sour Lake Western.
Canadian Pacific.
Chicago & Great Western.
Chicago & Northwestern.
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy.
Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul.
Colorado & Southern.
Fl PasO < southwestern.
Galveston, Harrisburg & San An
tonic.
Houston & Shreveport.
Houston East & West Texas.
Indianapolis Southern.
Kansas CITY Southern.
Louisiana Western.
Minneapolis, st. Paul & Sault Ste.
Marie
Missouri. Kansas & Texas
MOrgan's louisiana & Texas.
Northern Pacific.
Oregon Short Line.
Quincy. Omaha & Kansas City.
St. Joseph & Grand Island.
Southern Kansas OF Texas.
Eastern Railway OF New Mexico.
Baltimore & Ohio.
Chicago Terminal.
Canadian Northern.
Chicago & Alton.
Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound.
Chicago & Western Indiana.
Chicago Junction.
Chicago. 81. Paul. Minneapolis &
Omaha.
Duluth. South Shore & Atlantic.
Fort Worth & Denver City.
Great Northern.
Houston & Texas Central.
Illinois Central.
International & Great Northern.
Kansas City Terminal.
Mineral Range.
Minnesota Transfer.
Missouri Pacific.
New Orleans, Texas & Mexico.
Oregon & Washington.
Oregon Railway & Navigation com
pany.
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific.
St Joseph Terminal.
st. Louis & San Francisco.
81. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico
ST. Louis Southwestern.
San Antonio & Arkansas Pass.
San Pedro. Los Angeles a Salt Lake.
Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix.
Southern Pacific
Spokane, Portland & Seattle.
Tacoma & Eastern.
Texas & New Orleans.
Texas & Pacific.
Trinity & BTaZOs Valley.
Union Pacific.
Wichita Valley.
YazOo & Mississippi Valley.
Caused Some Surprise.
The wage increase demand OF the
engineers was referred 10 by repre-
sentatives OF the railroads before the
interstate commerce commission in
recently as one of the reasons
why higher freight rates ought TO be
by the railroads. At that time