The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-07-22
ERIE RAILROAD
PUTSNEW SNARl IN
STRIKE SITUATION
Its Managers Confer With Ma
tional Mediators Without
Definite Result.
OUTLOOK IS OMNIBUS.
Union Men Say There viii Be
q Tie-Up Unless Erie
Backs Down.
OUTLOOK IS OMNIBUS.

Representatives Of the Erie Railroad
and its subsidAary companies. the New
York 4 New Jersey and the New York.
susquehanna = Western which with
drew . week go from the Conference
Committee Of Railway Manassrs when
negotiations were begun 'w1th me Or3Sr
Of Railway Conductors end the Brosser.
hood Of Railroad Trainmsn 10 ssttis
amicably the demand Tor higher wages,
capitulated to-day 20 the extent Of
meeting the FEDERAL Board Of Media
ton and Cancellation at the HotA Man.
haitian.
The conference lasted from $50
o'clock to $50. and then J. G. 0tuast,
Vice. President and General Manager Of
the Erie and the of'iciAl who wrote the
oh,cial letter withdrawins from the
Conference Committee. announced that
the confrsres had come to no conciu-
sion and that another meeting would
be held. II was considered an III omen
by the railroad men who he'd expected
that the road would surrender. The
conductors md trsinmsn are n no
mood to stand much d1liydaliying and
have not hssitAted to make this known.
Up to . O'Clock this afternoon when
the Erie mon and the msdiaAors went
into conference. plans fol- arbitration
between the other forty.two railroads
north Of the Ohio and east Of che Mis-
sissippi River and their 10000 employees
were At . standstin.
WEAPON FOR WHIPPING GRiG
INTO ulNG.
Led by President 4. b. 0arrstson OF
| the Conductors and President w. q.
Lee Of the Trainmen. the railroad men
declined to proceed with the arbitration
plans until the attitude OF the Erie had
bssn announced unsquivoeaiiy and pub.
liciy. This uitimatum was delivered last
night to The FEDERAL Board and q that
tims-it. WAS. learned to.day-there VA
put into the hands OF the msdiators Z
weapon that may or may not have beg
Of use IN suasion which was nscessaf1
to bring The Erie even 70 . discusslon. q
IL position. Up to last night III dsci
sion 70 have nothing 10 DO with an
arbitration. 20 the road bad, Announced
was irfsvocabls.
What Measrs. Chambers. Knapp an{
Hanger might have used - an argu
msnt was the material supplied to then
last night by President Lee. VIII
charged that the Eras's attitude Va
directed BY J. p. Morgan q Co.. AMI
two big banks, the names Of which b.
didn't mention. but which were under
stood by the Federal Board to Be tn
National City and the First Nations
BAnka
You will recall that In isdo." d
ciarsd Lee, ''ths Erie declined 70 abid
by the Ciark-Morrisey award while
settled the wage dimcuities Of the Me-
York Central and to which ell othe
Eastern roads subscribed. went
9 Boston 1t that time to zee George W
Perkins.
II found him In bed In his hotel an
was received In his room. outlined III
situation to him and told him the dar
ger Of the Erie rsmAiaing outside Z
pale. He reached from his bed 70
I telephone and called up PrssSdsnt y.
. Underwood Of the Erie.
n "He talked to Mr.. Underwood -
n wouldn't talk to . messsnSsr boy ar
. when he concluded no had orders
n Underwood to bring the Erie into III
l. at once. You may recall also that I'll
}. was done at the last moment. II
. only way to deal with the Erie
j. through Morgan 4 Co. or the banks"
Judge Chambers replied that publ
10 opinion was something stronger ev'
10 than banks or Government and
q asked the railroad men 70 defer q
.. strike action ON the Dras until 10 q