The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-01
ARBITRATION BOARD ANNOUNCES AWARDS TN RAILROAD CASES Wages of 64,OOO Railroad WOrkmen Advanced to
 Some Extent MANY DEMANDS
 ARE NOT GRANTED Dissenting Opinion Filed on Behalf of Brotherhood of Enginemen
 Claiming Arbitration Is
 . Failure

Chicago, April 3O.--An arbitration award advancing to some extent the pay of e4,0OO locomotive engineers, hrc- lnen and AostIers on 9e western rail- roads was signed here today. A dissenting opinion was filed on be- half of the Brotherhood of Enlightenment. In which the arbitration was branded as failure, and the Newiands law. un- der which 1t was arranged. an made quate device for settlement of indus trial disputes.
 The award, effective May 10. and binding for one year only. was frankly declared as merely postponing for a 12-month period the actual settlement of differences The railroad members of the board Issued a formal stalemert criticising features of the regulations governing the arbitration and remark ing that certain concessions regarded as unjust were made for the sake of preserving peace with the employees.
 Judge Jeter C. Pritchard. chairman of the board, declared that while in his opinion the men in certain branches of the service were entitled to greater advances than were made. he had to make concessions that an award might be made. and he found much of a hope full nature in the award. Charles Ma gel. former secretary of commerce and labor. who, with Judge Pritchard. rep resented the board of mediation and conciliation, was the only member who l-~ IA Ia f- have been deeply offended by the re- cent attack made on him by officers of the brotherhoods. who pointed out that he was a trustee of the estate of the late Adolphus Busch. and that rail- road securities form part of the as- sets of the estate.
 The brotherhoods were represented on the arbitration board by F. A. Bur sess of Louisville, Ky, of the Broth erhood of Locomotive Engineers, and Timothy Shea of Peoria. Ill, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Bremen and Enginemen. The railroad members were: W. L. Park of Chicago, vice pres ident of the Illinois Central, and H. f. Bryan of Chicago, vice president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy.
 Essential Concessions
 As explained by MT. Burgess, the es- sential concessions to the men were:
 1. Standardization Of rates Of pay on the weight of locomotive on drive wheels.
 z. Overtime pay to passenger fife- men and engineers, ranging from A to 75 cents an hour. respectively.
 g. Enginemen- of steam power may transfer to electric power when ire stalled without loss of seniority rights after May l. 1915. The board named $430 a day as the minimum for pas- genger motormen and $2.50 for their helpers s4.75 for freight motormen and s275 for helpers.
 4 Enginemen of milk trains. circus trains and other irregular service. get an increase amounting to from 10 to Is per cent.
 5. The men will be paid for delay while in their cabs at initial and final terminals. and for time in excess of 90 minutes spent in preparing their en- zines for service
 c. Switch enginemen will receive an advance in daily pay of 25 cents on small engines and 15 cents on large ones
 [. Men held awey from home tefmi- ra1e bha1l, after 12 hourg' idleness, re- ceive . minimum days pay of 10 hours. taeed on last service. out of each suc- ceeding 34 hours until he gets . run. fe5~~sou~.-~.n -. n.~~ o~~~~N