The Sentinel=record., 1913-11-11
DOGS OF WAR TUCC|NC AT LEASH

men and rear brakemen 26 cents: brakemen 255 cents.
 For the freight service the chief awards are:
 Through runs. conductors cents a mile; flagmen PCT a mile, brakemen. 2.67 mile, any run less than too miles to be paid for as if it were 100 miles. In way freight. pick up Or drop, mine and roustabout service, same minimum, conductors awarded $4.50 a day of 100 miles or less; ten hours or less, flagmen s3.1O and brakmen $500, overtime to be paid for as time and one-half
 This was one of few instances in which the employees triumphed in their demand that overtime be paid at one and half times the regular pay The award Is distinctly against such practice in most instances. To this finding the employees representa- tlves filed minority report of pro test, To the entire finding the rail roads representatives dissented.
 We dissent from this award reads their report. because standard i2ation Is chimerical and unecono- mic; because such increased cost os living as has occurred is not sufficient to justify the increase granted; be- cause statistics prove that risk has decreased and hours of labor have de- creased and the weight Of evidence is that labor has not increased"
 Of vital importance to the em- ployes is the finding that present schedules of pay are not to be changed or disturbed in any way where they exceed the amounts named. Nor are employees to be cur tailed either in mileage or hours of ia. Dor to offset the increases granted.
 Tha railroads contention that they are between two horns of a dilemma from which there is no apparent es- cape-that they must either raise rates or cease raising wages--is dis missed by the arbitrators with this assertion:
 This board believes it must make It's findings without any reference to the dilemma in which the railroads are evidently placed. The interstate commerce commission and not this arbitration board has the duty of de termining whether the railroads can earn in addition to their otheI charges, without an increase in rates, the rates of pay that this board be- heves at the present time to be due to the conductors and trainmen."
 However, the board calls the atten- tion of the interstate commerce com mission to the decrease of hazard that follows the installation of steel cars, double tracking and improv ad signals. On this point the award says: This board wishes to call the atten- tion of the country to it's belief that railroad accidents can be reduced al- most precisely in proportion to the modernizing of the railroads and the improvement in their equipment"
 The board of arbitrators consisted of w. w. Atterbury, vice president of the Pennsylvania railroad, and A. II. Smith senior vice president of the New York Central, for the railroads; Lucius b. Sheppard, senior vice presi- dent of the OTdcr of Railway Con- ductors, and Daniel L. Cease of Cleve- and, editor of the Railway Trainmen, and Seth Low, former mayor of New York and President of the National Civic Federation, and Dr. John H. Finley, New York, state commission CT of education, as neutrals.
 The arbitrators met here Septem- Der II, and spent a month hearing witnesses. After October II the board held several protracted execu- tive sessions in an effort to agree up- on it's report.