Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-07-27
AVERT Strike Of
$4,000 IRAITNEN
REPRESENTATIVES, or IS BIG
EASTERN ROADS AGREE TO
ARBITRATION CLAIMS,
ROADS Make CONCESSIONS
Withdraw Demand That Their Gricv'
anccs BE Heard With Those of
Employees.
NEW YORK. July 26-The threat.

NEW YORK, July 26--The threat
ened strike of 10000 conductors ana
| trainmen of As eastern roads for
higher wages and improved working
conditions will not be called. Ar
| ticlcs of agreement to arbitration,
under the NeWland's act, the Ques-
tions at issue were signed today by
the employe representatives and the
conference of railroad managers.
The agreement was not reached
until the managers had Withdrawn
the proposal that their own griev-
ances should be arbitrated. This
claim, the managers announced,
they had relinqushed TO protect the
public" from tie-up which they
said the employees intended to force
if the railroads persisted in pressing
their point
Mediation Faction Wins Out.
Today's peaceful outcome Of the
dispute was the result of efforts
made by the board of mediation and
Cancellation recently created in the
hurriedly passed Newlands act to
meet the situation. The board, con-
sisting OF Judge william Lea Cham
bers, Judge Martin \. Knapp and
@. w. w. Hanger, brought about to-
days agreement after conferences
with the disputants, which continued
more than a week.
With the elimination Of the eight
grievances for which the railroads
desired consideration, the articles of
arbitration compromise, without al
teration, the original demands pre-
scented by the conductors and train
men. The only point gained by the
n ha oi a
award of the board of arbitration to
be constituted later OF 81 Xmembers
shall take effect October / next, in
stead Of May last, the date request
by the employees.
The articles were signed on behalf
of the men by w. l.. Lee of the
brotherhood of Trainmen, and A. b.
Garrettson, president of the order Of
Railway Conductors; and for the
railroads Elisha Lee, chairman of the
conference committee of the rail
road managers.
VIII Select Arblters.
The members of the mediation
board returned tonight to Washing
ton. where they will report to Pres
ident Wilson. The board will not
again be called into action unless
the four arbitrators nominated by
the railroads and the men fail to
agree on a fifth and sixth to COM
plete the arbitration board. In that
contingency the mediation board will
select the two necessary members.
Following Chairman Lees state
ment today that the railroads waived
their claims against the men or or
der to protect the public" Presl-
dent Lee of the trainmen presented
Ia the mediators letters setting forth
his Views concerning the employees
demand that the railroads grieVanc-
es should not be arbitrated.
I'm all the negotiations up to the
enactment Of the Newlands act there
was no suggestion by the managers
that their matters would be intro
duced for settlement" says the letter.
Roads Action Unexpected.
Neither at the joint committee
hearing nor at the White House CON
ference was there any hint of the
railroads intention to bring up 9TH
er questions for arbitration. Not
until July 16. the day after the pas
sage of the Newlands bill. was there
any new grounds of disagreement
introduced BY the railroads.
"There never has been time
when we had even the remotest idea
that the law governing arbitration
was enacted for the benefit of the
employees. ON the contrary. we rec
ognize the right of the railroads to
invoke its provision at the proper
time and In the proper manner. but
we will not concede the employer a
right to sweep aside the prescribed