Evening journal., 1910-07-16
STRIKE HANGS
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the code Of rules that obtains upon
every other railroad in the country
shall be applied upon the Pennsyl-
vania without a reduction in the pres
ent rate Of wages.
President McCrea's statement says;
1t should be clearly understood that
it is not less hours OF labor demanded
by the conductors and trainmen, but,
on the contrary, what they do demand
is more money for every hour they
work than is paid by other railroads
in this territory.
Calling attention to the awards
made on other railroads in the East,
Mr., McCrea says:
These awards Lave been accepted
by all other lines in the Eastern ter
ritory, and the trainmen state that the
rates are considered by them as
standard, and, while the company has
expressed a willingness to go to the
ten-hour basis, and at the same rate
as other lines have in effect under
these arbitration awards, il cannot
concede the demand which is now
made upon Il that it shall pay for ten
hours of work the same amount of
wages that il now pays for eleven or
twelve hours of work.
In other words, reduced to a mileage
basis. the contention of the men is
that 100 miles, or less, should consti-
tute a day, figuring ten miles to the
hour, and that We should pay, for I'M
stance. 4.04 cents mile to conductors
in through freight service. On the
other hand the trainmen and con
! ductors, on the award made to them
! by Messrs. Morrissey and Clark (New
York Central easel, accepted mile
age basis and ten-hour day. at the rate
OF 1888 cents a mile for similar runs.
? The company feels that the demand
of the employees is unfair, inasmuch
as It cannot be considered other than
a penalty for former liberal treatment,
and that the present higher rate of
wages the employees are now being
paid for similar service cannot be fur
ther increased; it has however. ex-
pressed it's Willingness to make a re-
adjustment to conform TO the ten-hour
basis that viii not result in an in
, crease in what it now pays on the trip
basis.
Mr.. GarretsOn'S Statement.
Mr. Garretson in his statement said
The real kernel of existing conten-
ton between the Pennsylvania Rail
! road and its employees lies not I'm the
question of money involved but in the
effort to maintain on one side and 70
4 depart from on the other what is Of
ten described as Pennsylvania poll
cies." For years il has been the pride
of the Pennsylvania Railroad to boast
to the official representatives of Other
roads that they could dictate the wage
of their employees and the conditions
under which they served, and they
, were able for years TO maintain a sem.
blance OF this position by the regular
issuance of so-caled voluntary in
creases. and no greater misnOmer wa'
ever employed to describe such in
! creases than the word voluntary.
S The student of rate conditions
o would invariably notice that such vol
. untary increases were always granted
D when the rumble of the feet Of an ap
preaching grievance committee WA
o heard. Such increases, invariably Civ
en- on the percentage basis. widene'
the difference in rates which existed
all over the line between men in sim
liar classes of service or on differen
runs on the same portions of the ter
" ritory, but they served the purpose fo
d which they were devised, namely. q
@ district the attention of the employs
% from the fact that the conditions un
= der which they served the compan,
= were less remuneratiye even with
comparatively higher rate of pay thai
II those which obtained on surroundin
D. lines.
Il II has been repeatedly stated L
ID the company that if the compau.
" would put in the code Of rules gov
a erning conditions OF the service EN-
II bodied i'm the New York Centri
award. that their application, couple
with the present rates OF pay, wOui
y effect a settlement of the difference
le upon the lines.