The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-04-26
engineers STRIKE
IS POSTPONED
OFFER OF MEDIATION BY GOV.
EMINENT ACCEPTED ~
UNIONS.
IS AT A CRISIS
WaIkout on Fifty Of Eastern Roads,
Affecting T%h,rty.four Thousand
Engineers Had Been
Called.

New York, April 24.-The tender of
the friendly offices" Of representa-.
tives of the federal government called
. temporary halt to q strike Of rail-
road engineers in all the territory
east of Chicago and north of the Pc.
tomac river in which 1t is estimated
that 50 per cent Of the railway traffic
of the entire country is handled.
The mediation Of federal officials
came Immediately after the refusal of
the managers Of SO railroads concern.
ed, to concede the engineers demands
for al 10 per cent increase in wages,
when Chief Warren Stone Of the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers
had announced, that in view Of this
refusal, a strike Of engineers would
60 into effect within SO hours.
= Mediation Offered.
knowing the situation had reached
a critical stage. Martin A. Knapp. pre-.
siding justice of the United States
commerce court and Charles P. Neill,
United States commissioner of labor
hurried here from Washington and as
soon as the decisive break occurred
they addressed a letter to both Chief
Stone and to j. C. Stuart. chairman
Of the conference committee of rail.
road managers. declaring that a grave
situation has arisen and that the sense
of duty impelled them to tender their
friendly offices to the contending par.
ties in the hope that some means may
be found to adjust the matters in dis.
pute without the calamity Of a gener.
al strike"
Although Chief Stone had a few min.
utes before declared that bis 49 asso-
ciates on the engineers committee
would proceed to their headquarters
to prepare for q strike within rs
the committee was so impressed
with the letter of Messrs. Knapp and
Neill that it was decided to accept the
proposal for mediation.
Chairman Stuart of the railroad
committee received an identical let.
ter from Messrs. Knapp and Neill but
would not comment Do what position
the railroads would take as to the
tender of mediation. He immediate
ly ordered a meeting of the commit.
tee, however, to consider the proposal.
; The railroads affected by the strike
crisis are:
/: Baltimore & Ohio; Bessemer &
Lake Erie; Boston & Albany; Boston
i& Maine; Buffalo, Rochester G. Pitts
burg; Buffalo & Susquehanna; Central
New England; Chicago. Indianapolis
& Louisville; Chicago. Terre Haute &
Southeastern; Chicago. Indiana &
Southern; Cincinnati, Northern; Gin
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton; Cleve.
land, Cincinnati. Chicago & st. Louis;
Coal & Coke; Delaware & Hudson;
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western:
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton; Dunkirk,
Allegheny Valley & Pittsburg; Erie;
Grand Rapids q Indiana; Hooking
Valley; Indiana Harbor Belt; Indian.
apolis Union; Kanawha & Michigan;
Lake Erie and Western; Lake Erie.
Alliance & Wheeling; Lake Shore &
Michigan Southern; Lehigh Valley;
Long Island; Maine Central; Michi-
gan Central; New York Central &
Hudson River: New York, Chicago &
st. Louis; New York, New Haven &
Hartford; New York, Ontario & West
ern; New York, Philadelphia & Nor
folk; New York. susquehanna & West
ern; New Jersey & New York; Penn.
sylvania Lines east; Pennsylvania
lines west; Pere Marquette; Pitts.
burg & Lake Erie; Reading system;
Toledo & Ohio Central: Toledo, st.
Louis & Western; vandalia lines;
Western Maryland; Wheeling & Lake
Erie; West Side Belt line; Wabash;
Pittsburg terminal.
Three Lines Unaffected.
The list includes practically all but
three Of the railroads in the territory
roughly described % east of Chicago
and north Of the Potomac river. The
three exceptions are the Central Rail-
road Of New Jersey, whose contract
with the engineers does not expire un-
til June / and the Central Vermont
and Rutland railroads in Vermont,
which have a separate agreement with
the men employed SO that the result
will be their taking up the wage auss.
ton directly with the men
II. is declared by Stone that $4,000
men will be affected by Q strike order.
OF these 25.700 are members Of the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers.
and about $500 are In the Brotherhood
Of Fremen and Bnginsmen. who, the