The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-12
CBNTRAL'S OFFER REJECTED
BIT THERE'LL me- ANOrHER
CONFFRENCE TO-DAH.

TralnMea Tell the Ranroad WmclAls me
NS'e neJecsIaG = Partial Advance IN
Wages Maa . STRIKE Neee TheS
, Thlnk RSad's wage Figures 0W.
The crisis in the controversy between
tbs New York Central Tsiirosi and lis
| I rainmen and conductors was reached
yesterday On the outcome Of final
Conferences betwesn tho grievance com
mittees Of the men and the officials of
the railroad to-day will depend whether
ar not there will he q strike on the entire
system between New York and Buffalo.
The strike would bring out about atty
FIVE hundred trainmen and conductors
On the New York Central lines and would.
IL was said. involve the Vanderbilt lines
more or lees. including the Lake shore.
the Michigan Central. the West Shore.
the Big Four. the Nickel Plate. the Lake
Erie and Western. the Boston and Albany
and the PistsbIrG and Lake Erie lines.
Grand Master W. q. Ice OF the Brot her
hood Of Railroad Trainmsu said yester-
day that the trainmen and conductors
Of the Michigan Central are now taking
vote on q strike for thu same demands
that the New York central and the Cen
trial trainmsa and conductors have
voted % per cent. against , To enforce
u necessary by a general strike.
lee. with Grand Master q. 3. Garrett
son Of the conductors and the grievance
committees OF the trainmen and conduc-
tors of the New York Central. had q
conference yesterday forenoon with the
officials Of the railroad. The chairman
Of the COMMITTEES % the trainmsn is J
M Holiday and tho chairman of the
committee 81 the conductors il NJ. J.
Slattery The officials Of the Central
present were President W &. Brown
The first time President Brown has at
tended these Conferences General Man
agsr A. II. Smith and Assistant General
Manager p. r. Crowley
The Representatives Of tho trainmen
and conductors said that the vote reject
ing the last terms submitted by the rail-
road. which were advances in wages
! ranging from to IS per cent. was a
strike vote The advances demanded
which are from 20 - per cant. were
declared Ivy the railroad officials to ba
far beyond what the railroad could afford
To- pay. Tins conference spesiiy broke
up. the representatives Of the employees
agreeing 10 wait for an alternative propo-
sition from the railroad and meet the
railroad officials to-day.
The officials of the road then went into
conference and agreed on a compromise
proposition. which was Sent 10 the head
quarters Of Lee and Garret.on. As soon
as 70 was received thu grievance com
mitte@ of tine trAinm@n and conductors
decided in the Broadway Central Hotel
thai the compromise was unsatisfactory.
What the compromise was nobody would
say.
We shall at all events meet the officials
Of the company finally to-morToW said
Grand Master Lee Of the trainmen The
compromise ~ not satisfactory. We put
! ~ Ip a. the cOmpany'- officials AT our
confer.nc- to-day that she vote against
the acceptance Of the proposition made
before tins one was a strike vote
He said that the y. a d. terms would
10 the only terms that would he aCceptsd.
Their. was no chang" Of sentiment ON
that point.
Some of the conductors Of the New
York Central have been told he said.
that Il would he possible for them TO
earn Sl7S a month. ] have figured this
oft and find that TO do this sax reserve
miles. an imposaibiltty, would have 60 b.
rlln al q month. On ths same basis ths
r. a d. would pay s2sO a month. Be-
sides We must have the same rates for
the passenger the freight trains"
He then went into figures designed 90
show that nv some ~ the propositions
of the Central the men oD the short trips
would suffer On short runs M minimum
monthly salary ~ less than SIPS for
conductors. SIS for ldgRagenaen aud
$50 for braksmen would be accepted.
Some ~ the members of the committee
and ItS officers had new argument 20
show Why, in their estimation. the New
York Central should pay az least as high
the ssIuipmsnt Of the New York Ceatral
was ihs NEST expensive IN The last
Hence the Central should ray az least
as high wages to IL men as any of the
trainRsn and conductors we're entitled
90 a. high wages from one road IN the
/ Fast as from another road.
The fact that the New York Central
has the most expensive eIuipm~nt,
-ard one ~ them. shows that a. " doing
good business and can nav the highest
wags=.
Thrr. was little talk ~ the alleged
| pTsfl.s rz;ious 80 the r,Esd for strike
The 'raInmsn and conductors dad not
apDesr 10 take this talk seriously The
! training srhool-. II WAS stated were
not "A new thing.
The. last strike On the New York Cen
trail Lanes Was twenty wears age. when
the sWiichms,n piIit wort 10y orders ~ the
now defuDct Switchmsn'= Mutual Aid
Association, knights 20 labor body IL
failed
The officials 1t the railroad were pleased
Yesterday that they are ~ have no trouble
with the rqilTnad telegr.I pliers. Ia whom
advances of little more than per cent
on am average have hsen granted.
There vas M talk ~ pOssiblr strike
at the photographers ~ anV iinls sad
Assistant General Manager Crowley. The
status 90 our 3.OO0 tel~graphera was gone
into very carefully and the case ~ each
man WAS taken up separately
REFTNERT STRSkE ENDS.