The evening world., 1913-07-14
Railroad Managers
Ready to Arbitrute

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The Conference Committee Of Railway
Managers this afternoon issued . for
NAL statement. In which they offered to
arbltrats the mems demand for In.
creased wages. providing the Nswiands
bill 10 passed.
Hitherto the managers have refused
% arbitrate under the Erdman act. be-
cause only three Arbitrators are ap-
pointed. only one man having. therefore.
The deciding vote.
Shs statement Of the mana gers agree.
Nc % arbitrsts under the Nswlands
AL was Issued this afternoon after u
)onB secret sesslon. and was sent to
Warrington to President W u. Lee Of
~ Brotherhood Of Railroad Trainmsn
aad Pyssidsnt A. u. Garretson Of ths
OvdSs Of Railway Conductors
o1ANAogRS EXPLAIN THEIR
STAND ON TINS GRoMAN ACT.
The communication IL ~ follows:
Tho Conference Committee OF
Managers. representing forty three
Eastern railroads. has dealt with
thrss lol>0r controversiss--ths prss.
- wv WV WIN 10 CtbXlu2UtU oUo
oaothsr with the hremen.- The com.
nittse's policy has never changed.
u has refused to be coerced. through
threats Of strikes, Into paying the
yAilroad employees wages out Of all
proportion to the cuties performed.
J"Ths managers have been consist
ent In contendinx that the Erdman
ect-arbitration under which rail-
road employees always urge-doss
Dot protect the interests Of all par
uss concerned.
Judging from your letter Of the
l1eh instant. We take II that you will
agree TO Aroltrate under some fair
plan. such ~ that called for In the
kswiands bill. the passays Of which
representatives of the railroads have
Been urging for some time past. and
that you Win not insist further upon
arbitration under the provisions of
tAs Erdman Act.
The position Of the railroads b
onchanssd. Should the Nswiands
lbali b enacted into law. the Confer.
onos Committee will, Of course, b.
willing to'submit to arbitration By Q
board provided for In the Nswisnds
AL ell questions Of rates Of pay ana
working conditions Of conductors
end trainmsn."
The letter to the heads Of the rail-.
rood smploysss' organisation was signed
~ Chairman Lee. Present at the con.
hogencs of the managers. besides Mr..
La we're: q. C. Long. General Manager
Of he Psnnsyivania LINES: 4. n. 8hsyer,
General Manager Of the vaudalia Rail-
red; r. e. Crowley. General Manager
ee the New York Central Railroad; ].
G. walbsr. assistant 70 the Third Vice.
President Of the Baltimore Ohio Rail-
raoA; II. W. AcMasters. General Man.
agss Of the wheeling 4 Lake Erie Rail.
read; c. L. Barde. General Manager OF
~ New York. New Haven 4 Hartford
Railroad: c. Q Sims. vics-Prssidsnt and
General Manager Of the Delaware 4
Auason Railroad. and H. W. Thornton,
General Superintendent Of the Lons
Island Railroad.
70 GALL STRIKE ~ NtWLANpa
BILL FAILS.
0ut II all peaceful means faii-and
fov believe they will--A strike order
vii bs Issued. Before they left New
York. Presidents Lee and Garretson de-
clased they had liked q date for the
strike. but that they had divulgsd Il to
no one. and that they would not do %
until they we're ready to Issue the strike
cell
Tue General Committeeman on all the
lines left New York yesterday for their
honsa. with al instructions a. to the
conduct q the strike. II the order ID
ever issued. BY . unanimous vote. thess
coomittsemen. meeting a. commit.
tsss from each road. yesterday ratinsd
re strike vote taken by the 1000 men
Who voted. and placed In the hands OF
Presidents Lee and oarrstson complete
authority 20 call for the strike u. In
their judgment. peaceful means could
not effect . settlement.
The date for the strike will probably
b Thursday. II the Nswlsnds bill Il
not previously passed In Congress
Whether . walkout Of the trainmer
A3d conductors would cripple the ser.
Wees 10 pr0blsmatioal.
The railroad managerv are known e
- making active preparations TO III
the places OF the men n Q strike h
called. but they declined to-day to out.
hns their plans. A. . matter OF TACT
ths managers themselves 10 not bslisvs
~ thss . strike order gu ~ issued.