El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-09

now carried on the pension rolls ~ -
Hartman lines % 'iie
For many years our officers have
Freely met organized and unorxanizeS
employees in conference
Sonceding considerate treatment and
d Willingness on the part of the Off
fba lbs n 10 discuss conditions at all times.
i the issue. which. briefly, may be OUT
Hned as follows:
al meeting in Salt Lake held last
summer, employees from ali crafts on
Inc hartman lines determined to pre-
with those sent the Southern Pacific
winch are substantially as follows:
F1rst--Recognitio Of the shon en-
pIoyes federation representing all five
oaoies, VIZ; macnln1sts. boilermakers.
car men, blacksmiths, and sheet metal
workers. -
wage increase and APPRENTICE Question
second-An present or future en-
proves not members shall Join the fed
Grated association within 30 davs.
Wnich means. of course, the discharge
OF all employees who will not or can
shop. eioseu
Third-The company to agree that
the control and final settlement of diff
nerehces with their employees shall rest
with Federated committee made up
OF representatives of all five crafts
instead OF committees OF the Individual
cra1ts as heretofore. The effect OF
tnese demands. if conceded. would be
10 place the whole body of workers in
all these crafts behind a demand made
py any one OF them, no matter how
uhreasonable-an arrangement which
would certainly encourage the making
OF unreasona bic demands, which are
not likely to be made by the individual
crafts operating alone
Fourth-To restrict the number of
apprentices, denying to American boys
the opportunity to fit themselves for
the duties of life by learning. trades
Fifth-A flat increase of seven
cents per hour for all mechanics, APP
prentices and helpers which would
mean increases of from 15 to 26 per
cent averaging. for the entire shop
FORCES 20 percent; reduction Of hours
without decrease-of pay, and other de-.
mands, averaging 13 percent additional
or an average total increase from both
sources OF SO percent. This in addition
10 all shop crafts of II IL percent in
the last five years, and in the face of
the fact that the Southern Pacific is
now paying higher wages than any
otner railroad in the United States.
states Fellow Servant Law Quoted
me erect of all these demands would
increase the shop pay rolls of the Har-
riman lines about s7.00O.0O0 annually.
,s Slxtn4-No employees shall work by
piece, premium, or bonus system;
where anything of this sort is in ex-
lstence, it shall be discontinued: shop I
shall be filled by pro-
motion from the rankss of federation
all this In direct Conflict
with the public will, recently emphat-
Ically expressed, that increased ex-
penses of the carriers were to be met
by increasing the efficiency of their
operations and not BIS increasing
reight rates.
Seventh-No form of physical exam
nation or personal record shall be re-
lulred; that is, the company is denied
he right exercised by every citizen to
'equire of persons entering his service
evidences Of competency, good charac-
er and health. Under this rule. dis
.ased, Incompetent, inefficient and
IMMORAL persons might be employed 1
md If they succeeded in escaping de-
ection for 80 days they could not be |
discharged without danger of a strike |
The fellow servant laws Of California, |
nd OF many other states, make the |
corporation responsible in damages to |
is employees through negligence of a |
'o-employe The proposed clause |
would deprive the corporation of all |
means of protection, and would pro- /
note inefficient and unsafe public ser |
ice.
'revious Strikes Not Serious In Char
Eighth-f forces are reduced, en-