Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-18
LEADERS, NOTE ON |
RAILROAD STATUS {
IS AN ULT|MATUM
Say lnsistance of Companies
Stand Will Fix the Hour
for Strike.
SETH LOW SIDES WITH
TRAINMEN IN CONFAB
Road Managers Not in Good
Faith, Declares Former
N. Y. Mayor.

NEW YORK, July 18.-Seth Low,
president of the National Civic Fed
Grafton. an organization which was
instrumental in smoothing the way
for arbitration under the Newlands
act OF the wage dispute between
forty-five Eastern railroads and their
trainmen and conductors. came for
ward again today in an endeavor to
straighten out the. tangle arising
from the roads demands that their
grievances be arbitrated along with
those of the men.
Mr.. Low, who has sided with the
unions in their contention that the
railroads could not properly inject
their troubles into the situation at
this stage, was to confer this after
noon with the conference COMMITTEES
of railroad managers in the hope
that some agreement might be
reached.
Messrs. Lee and Garretson made
public this afternoon the text Of
bulletin which is being sent to menu
bers of the unions advising them OF
the state of things. 1t reeites the
demands of the railroads for arbi-
tration of certain grievances and
continues:
1T is needless to say that no arr
bitration embodying these PROPOSE
tions will even be considered, and IL
insisted upon by the arrangements.
only one result can follow, namelys
VIII Result In Strike.
THE setting of the hour for res
tirement from the service.
Local chairmen will remain out
of duty until otherwise instructed
by their general chairmen or the un-
dersigned, and will remain where
communication from their general
chairman by wire or letter will
reach them promptly"
The bulletin is now in the mails
on it's way to the $4,000 members OF
the organizations.
T. Dewitt Cuyler. chairman of the
board of directors of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, returning from Eu-
rope today. said he did not believe
there would be a strike at this time.
II believe they will reach a solu-
ton" he said But l am firm in
the opinion he added, that the
time Is at hand when the railroads,
not the unions, have something to
say about wages"
The stand of the trainmen and cnn-
ductors as voiced last night by their
leaders, Messrs. Lee and Garretson,
is that the roads acted in bad faith.
demanding something not "even de-
batable.'
This causes a deadlock in the pros
ceedings.
The meeting will be held in ths
Grand Central Station.
The arrangement for Mr.. Low to
meet the committee was made after
he had written to Elisha Lee. chair
man of the committee, when the sit
uation became ominous again. in
which he said he was in sympathy
with the view of the men that the
demands by the railroads for the in
clusion of other issues was "tanta-
mount to a breach of faith"
Threaten to Call Out 100000.
The acute situation produced by
the Ere's refusal to join with the
other roads in the arbitration of any
question has been accumulated today
by the declaration of the leaders OF
the conductors and trainmen's or
ganizations that unless the railroads
withdrew their demand, to submit
their grievances to the arbitration
board with those of their employees
that 100000 men would be called out,
affecting every important railroad
| east of Chicago and north of the
Ohio river.
The attitude of the men today was
made clear in letters sent to Elisha
Lee by A. B. Garretson. president of
the Order of Railway Conductors, and
! w. G. Lee, president of the Brothers
hood of Railroad Trainmen. in which
| they said:
1.-THE public has been nauseated
with declarations of devotion to the
the public interest. but. the veil now
begins to lift as to the sincerity Of
the declarations made