El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-04
HINTS Of STRIKE
ON SUNSET CENTRAL
Federated Employees De-
mand Manager Waid Meet
Them; He Refuses.

Members of the railroad brother
( hoods employed on the Sunset Cen
trail lines are voting on proposition
submitted TO them by their grievance
chairman and officers of their or
ders, calling for action on the alleged
refusal Of vice president and general
manger G. 5. Waid TO meet cooper
atlVe committee of employees IN train
and engine service and adjust. certain
grievances that are said to have been
pending for some time.
Hints that a strike vote may be
taken by the men are evident in the
correspondence that has been eX-
changed between the general commit
tee and Mr.. Waid since September 16.
A letter from grand officers of the
engineers firemen'S. brakemen's and
conductors brOtherhoOds, dated No
vember 1, says the matter will be sub
mitted to the men on the line and that
general manager Waid will be ad-
Vised later.
Waid Won't Meet Joint Committee.
The correspondence which has just
been made public by Mr.. Waid, be-
gins with a notification to him that
the four brotherhOOds have formed a
cooperative committee for the hand
ling of grievances, and asks him to
meet its chairman and the grand rep
reSentatITes of the organizations This
Mr.. Waid declines to do and the de-
mand for an audience was made TO
president W B. Scott on October 20.
Mr.. Scott refused to meet the commit
tee and referred them to Mr.. Waid,
who, he said, was fully empowered to
adjust differences with them.
Mr.. WaId says in his letters that
he will treat with the employees as
enginemen, or trainmen, jointly, ac-
cOrding to their position, but refuses
TO consider grievances brought before
him by a cooperative, or federated,
board Of all the four orders. He as
serts that the existing contracts with
the respective train service and engine
service employees are so entirely at
variance that there is little chance
for getting together on common
ground and that negotiations con-
Quoted by a cooperative board would
be interfered with for this reason.
Grand Officers Take Hand.
In letter to president Scott, dated
October %, the grand officers declare
that general manager Na1d has de-
clined TO satisfactorily adjust the
cases discussed with him by individual
committees and that until he demon
strated that satisfactorily results
could not be so obtained, there never
was a disposition on the part of the
four organizations to federate' on
the Sunset Central
Mr. Waid replies that the insistence
of the men IS not JUSTIFIED under the
terms of the contracts existing be-
tween the companies and the organ
izations, which provide in substance
that grievances of each organization
will be handled by representatives OF
that organization, and that none OF
the contracts provides that the other
organizations shall have a voice in
the settlement of such grievances The
general manager SAYS that he is will
ling TO meet any committee cOnsti-
tuted in accordance with the con-
tracts.
The general chairmen Of the four
orders who have participated in the
are W. T. Christy, B.
l. E.; J. NJ Casey, 0. r. G.; Fred Barr,
3. L F. & E: s H Parkinson, 3. r.
T The grand officers who have been
summoned to deliver the ultimatum to
the Sunset Central management are a.
Phillips and NJ T. Montgomery. as
sistant grand chiefs of the B. L. E.; S
n. Berry. vice president o. R C.: ]. A
FarquharsOn, vice president 3. Of R. l.