The evening world., 1913-07-07
DANGER STRIKE
ON $4,000 MILES
6,5EASTERN ROADS
Crisis Will Be Reached at the
Conference Tomorrow Be-
tween Committees.
MANAGERS SEEM FIRM
Rejection of Demands and Re-
fusal to Arbitrate May Be
Signal for Tie-Up.
MANAGERS SEEN FIRM


- The territory east Of the Mississippi
nDvsr and north Of the Potomac River
Dosoms more serious to-day than ut
~ time since the Order of Railway
ebaductors and Brotherhood Of Rail
Doad Trainmsn hled Q demand for an
osSrssats wage increase Of si7,ooO.ooo
. year.
3hs Conference Committees Of Man
ogsrs. representing the forty-four main
n1es involved. held . secret meeting
oeday In the Engineering Society
D1iiding at No. % West Thirty-n!n.h
0lsest. At this meeting . definite an.
Owsr was prepared to be handed to-
0srrow to the Committee Of 100, repre-
ontins the trainmen and conductors.
Although the terms Of the answer
O0re withheld. a. . matter OF courtesy.
Ootn they are formally given to the
ovalnmsn and conductors. II 10 said the
0agwsr will rsitsrats the managers po-
Obe1on-tkat the wages already paid a-e
- many cases excessive and that furth.
- Increases will be ruinous
N addition, II II reported. the man
ogsrs will reanirm their refusal to
Ounmit the matter to arbitration under
the Fsdaral Erdman act. on the grounds
Tat the entire matter 10 Left In the
hands Of one man.
: Such an answer from the railroads
will bring the matter to . crisis. for
st to-morr0w's meeting the trainmen
and conductors will notify the ConfSr-
sues Committee OF Managers that the
recent vote taken among their 10000
members called overwhelmingly for .
strike unless satisfactory terms can
speedily be reached.
The meeting tomorrow will DO held
ct go o'clock A. n. In the assembly
rooms OF the Engineering Society Build.
ing and will be attended by the Confer
cnce Comi.iittee OF Managers, OF which
Elisha Lee Ia Chairman. and by nifty
representatives from the conductors.
headed by Pres, t Garretson. and by
nifty representatives from the trainmen.
beaded by President Lee.
1t has not been decided whether this
conference will be secret or public,
though In the past most Of them have
been held in secret. As soon as the
conference Is called to order Presidents
Lee and Garretson will announce to
the railroad managers the figures In
the recent strike vote
The exact percentage Of this vote
viii be kept secret until delivered. but
80 10 known that more than 30 per cent.
Of the trainmen and conductors on the
roads involved have voted to give their
leaders authority to call a strike II
satisfactory wage increases are not
Gsanted.
It IL reported to-day that the train
men and conductors. as soon as they
hsve announced the strike vote, will de-
XAand again that the wage scale ques-
ton 20 TO arbitration. A previous de-
mAnd along this same line has already
0esn refused with much dehniteness by
the managers. should they repeat their
0eoh . stage that a waikout Of 100000
nsn. paralysing trsfiio in the East. may
on0ue.
FEDERAL intsrventlon Is moro than like
~ before Q strike order is issued II the
matter goes that far. Secretary Of La
Dor Wilson is known TO be watching de-
veiopments, and 10 prepared to send the
Chief Of the Bureau Of Labor Statistics
- New York should q crisis be reached.
Secretary Wilson. It was reported from
Washington to-day. Ia urging Congress
- enact an amendment to the Erdman
oct which will increase the size OF the
eeAsd OF arbitration. The present board
70 limited to three members one being
selected BY each side. VINO then select
. third.
~ two members OF the board neces-
sarily are partisans. the third member
usually writes the award The RAILROADS
have all along objected TO TINS proceed
ure ana based their recent reiusai y
esoitrate upon this one man power
President Lee OF the Tainmeh VIII re-
turn to New YORK this AFTERNOON from
Cleveland and VIII CONFER win Fres'-
dent s0AFrlSOn anu tho OtHeT union