The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-08
|VG|NEERS WILL
NTE ON STRIKE
<ty.one Roads All Over the
West May Be Tied
Up.
.,,c, 60 MEETING ENDS
WITH OFFERS REFUSED
.iIroads Made Offer to In
4 crease Wages, but Not Re-
garded as Sufficient.

,,,c,GO. Nov. IA strike vote. vii!
Len among the engineers OF sixty
'pesds wesr. south and north of Chi
= following the termination today OF
lions between the roads and grand
prre Of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
'et Trolneers which had been under
s,Joration since September 26.
rsre increases of approximately Z per
snd alteration or working conGl-
! stood between the negotiators.
-,rd Chief Warren 5, Stone of the
,herbood said today he believed the
he vote would be unanimously In Ia
of suspension OF work, and that the
lnemen would have expressed their
ina by December 10. Immediately
safter, he said, n last opportunity
IA no given the railroads TO meet
ors,,nity Within FIVE hours every en-
wcst of Chicago would be stiIlcd.
Ans drawn and out OF the thousands
,bs would step every driver on duty.
be representatives OF the engineers
he tyenty-Hye conferences which end
Iedsy were:
'sncn S. Stone, grand chief; Ash
nedv. F. a. Burgess. i. Corrigan.
N Cadle and IL E. Wills. assistant
4 chiefs, Brotherhood OF Locomotive
ineors.
M managers OF the Brotherhood, who
nfly represented the smaller coun-
OF the road.
,llruad officials, as follows. heard the
ne drivers demands:
, Is. Scott OF the Hartman lines,
1 Ward OF the Burlington lines, +,
Batchcder of the Chicago Terminal
Baltimore G. Ohio, +. a. Durham of
Missouri, Kansas & Texas, @. ii.
rson of the Great Northern. L. j..
he Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe.
II Hall of the Canadian Pacific, Ii.
Immons of the FL Paso s. Southwest
and A, ". Trenholm of the Chi
81. Paul, Minneapolis Is Omaha.
10 whole question arose from the de-
N OF the engineers in convention at
olt last spring. Ii a three weeks
lon Il was decided that the existing
. scale, In effect since February, 1907.
Unsatisfactory and that working
lItons had been imposed by rail-
. which should be eliminated, The
d officers were instructed TO meet
'raIlroad managers and present the
ands.
le general working conditions OF
y The ongincmcn complain include
lollOwing:
Mallotts Are Grievance.
Sers Of the Mallett compound en-
8, which do practically the work OF
engines and entail d corresponding
visibility and capability. receive the
e wages as other drivers of high
er engines OF much smaller capacity.
lgineers Wish 10 be relieved of the
Of preparing their engines for travel
OF caring for them after runs. and
that switching time be paid for on
dercnt basis.
Y magnitude Of the wage question is
ehced by a statement by the en-
ces that the per cent wage differ
nov standing between the drivers
the railroads mean approximately
iln5 conditions would be less than
pQe. II was asserted.
se Just reached the point where it
evident NC could not agree on wage
,otoer questions" said Grand Chief
e OF the Brotherhood today. when
'iarie6 our negotiations we little ex-
ed them 10 last so long. Our powers
srivc at agreements arc restricted
eYcr b. the fact that ia this case
are acting not in n IiCtatoVial sense,
simply as following out the expressed
mend OF the individual engineers.
% we have only tho prescribed limits
noYement allotted lis by the Conyen-
me railroad committee OF ten assevt-
lircctly that they could not approac ch
,.Nrms- and there was simply moth
icIl TO do but 10 ask our mon for
<f al; Il
. they unanimously directed this ac-
OF ours. il seems only reasonable
'hcy Will vote unanimously for u
December 10 the Day.
y December 10 We will have tho bal
counted, and will present the result
nc railway men. They will have one
w 10 meet tho terms Of our men.
~ iney refuge. ! think the strike
4 VIII go out within half IN hour.
Strlke Is ordered. We can reach
y engineer, I believe, within five
- and Oh every one of the sixty
,toaos every cab will he deserted i'm
,acly. and II you happen TO be n
,enser at that time. / guess you'll
10 get out and walk"
spesentatives of the Association of
,,"s9 Manag"rs from which the COM
~ ot ten TO treat with the engine
mao drawn said the statement by
AZ ,S'one was substantially correct, and
~ oiiy lhc figures over which the
,nvntion was waged.
,,u Sne conferences began" said
'.a,aH ',',a,' W: b. Scott OF the conference
~,,p,eee The engineers demands an
a,,,na.cd NJ Z per cent Increase. This
d Was brought down 10 II per cent.
,rs A,Iy agreed To a 10 per cent in .
- "'slinS $3.50, 200 for the sixty
h "ns 80. VIC represent. and there wo
u ~ '.urk The $50. 600 increase they
es1 o"I i9r was more than We could
ch was made clear that the roads
= Az S'c parties 10 The wago confer
= ~, Wv not Include all tho lines west OF
M. "ul tl'c Chief roads west. south
cSn.na, and from Fort Williams west
i,nsh ihaaa' VA with the exception OF the
Visn limos and several minor syston,a
lp%s.., l. ol The lines affected as given ont
W. SSs, every iinc in Utah and the en-