El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-05

4, Full pay IS weeks; half pay Is weeks
after seven days absence.
For employees whose term of employ
ment has been = years or more. but
( less than 5 years.
Full pay 4 weeks; half pay weeks
after first seven days absence
4 Life Insurance--Paymen to ben
eflclary or beneficiaries as follows
For employees whose term of employ
ment has been 10 years or more.
one years pay, not TO exceed $1,000.
For employees whose term Of employ
ment has been five years or more, but
less than ten years.
Six months pay not to exceed $4,000.
For employees whose death is caused
by accident occurring in and due to
performance of work for the company
Inree years pay, not to exceed $4,000.
Wage Controversy Under Mediation.
A dispute between tne - roads the
CnlcaSO district, and yardmen. mem
bers of the Brotherhood of Railway
1ralnmen, who have made demands for
new scale OF wages, and a revision
OF WORKING conditions, has been sub
mltted TO mediation under the Erdman
law by acting commissioner of labor
O. W Hanger and Martin A Knapp,
presiding judge Of the commerce court.
The demands Of the men include time
and one half for overtime, Sundays
and mondays, continuous time and one
hour penalty for failure to give 80
pay. one days pay If called and not
used and pay for time consumed in in
Ycstigaions- The switchmen were
represented by a committee headed by
vtcepresident Whitney, of the Brother
hood Of Railway Trainmen, and the
roads by committee of managers. OF
Wnlcn l. J. FOLEY, general manager Of
the Illinois Central is chairman.
Following the failure of negotiations
with the managers strike vote was
announced on March 20. and confer
ences were resumed. The managers
committee proposed that the men with
draw the items involving payment of
time and one half and that>the investi- /
sections be continued as to the remain
ing rules with a view to affecting a
settlement by mutual concessions.
When this proposal was declined by
the brotherhood committee the man
ayers proposed the calling in of medi- /
dtorS, which was accepted. The man
ayers have published as an advertise
ment in the newspapers, a letter to
Whitney, which includes
the following:
Your request for time and one half
for overtime and for Sundays and hol-
idays is declined, because it would Den-
alize the roads for conditions they can
not prevent The principle of time
and one half for overtime for Sundays
and holidays for yardmen is wrong. for
the reason that II cannot accomplish
the purpose for which you intended it
J. e., elimination of overtime The es-
adjustment of such high rate for
overtime would be an incentive for
men to work longer hours, and il would
result IN increasing rather than de-
the mems day It cannot be
ccntradicted that a certain amount of
yard work must be performed Sundays
and holidays, and railroads do not re-
CelVe any greater compensation for
traffic handled on those days than at
any other time, and therefor would not
be justified in increasing the rates for
such days"
Union Labor Notes.
Vicepresident T NJ Pierson. Of the
Order of Railway Telegraph
ers. has requested of the Maine Cen
trail railroad that the pay Of telegraph
ers on that road be increased Is per
cent and the working hours be reduced I
from y to 10, in offices not keeping
open "a hours.
Unanimous sentiment in favor Of
strike. unless the demands were grant Z
ed relative TO wages and working I
hours, has been expressed by members :
OF the Boston Telephone OpratOrS' I
union. The arbitration board of the f.
union and the wage scale committee /
were Instructed to demand a confer
ence with president p I. Spalding, of /
the New England Telephone & Tele- 7
graph company to discuss the requests Z
made by the operators. The executive /
board was given full power to act at /
that time II strike was considered I
necessary.
The Laymen's association of the New
I ork- East conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church, at its annual session
New Haven Conn, went on record /
IS favoTinE the proposition of calling
c" minimum salary for pastors. The I
measure would finally assure to each
married ordained minister Of the con-
erence minimum salary of $1,000. and
% each ordained unmarried member a
minimum cash salary of $500"
The Chesapeake & Ohio has made an
Increase of 10 percent. dating from
february ]. in the pay of all clerical
mplOyes whose salaries have been less
han $3.50 a month
Tn Oklahoma legislature has passed
/ full crew law 1t provides that