Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-05-06
PROTEST DECISION
" WAGE DISPUTE
Western Enginemen Dissatis.
fled With Award of Arbitra-
tors-WiI Renew Fight
Next Year.

Chicago. May 3.-That the award OF
means ends the dispute between SO
western railroads and their enginemen
and hostlers, but merely postpones the
issue for another Year, is the opinion of
railroad men. The award vas handed
.iown yesterday. 1t advances to some
extend the rates of pay to the 81, 600
men involved.
A dissenting opinion was filed on
behalf of the brotherhood OF Locomo-
tive E~,nginemen, branding the arbi-
tration as a failure and condemning
the Newlands act under which it was
arranged as being Inadequate for the
Settlemen Of industrial disputes. The
! award becomes effective May 10, and
s binding for one year only.
Warren S. Stone, grand chief en-
gineer Of the enginemen's brotherhood,
charged that Charles S. Nagel, one
of the arbitration board was violently
PARTISAN" Nagei is c~o-eXecutor Of the
estate of the late .Adolphus Busch. and
it is maintained by the union officials
that he was directly interested in the
result of the award, as it would apply
20 u railroads of which the Busch
estate held stocks and bonds.
The brotherhoods were represented
on the board by f. a. Burgess of Louis
Vile, Ky. assistant grand chief engi-
leer of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers, and Timothy Shea. of
Peoria, HI. vice president of the Broth
,rhood of Locomotive Firemeu and En-
ginemen. The railroad members were
w, L.. Park, Chicago, vice president of
The Illinois Central, and "A. f. Byram,
chicago, vice president of the Chicago,
Burlington q Quincy. AS explained by
Mr.. Burgess, the essential concessions
70 the men We're:
Table of Concessions.
Il. Standardization of rates of pay on
he weight of locomotives on drive
wheels.
.. Overtime ply to passenger hremen
md, engineers ranging from d to rs cents
in hour. respectively.
3. Enginemen Of steam power may
~ransfer to electric power when installed
s saR !. 1s les T Fl Sf board . was Eig anab,s after bsr
$ause of the newness of the electric rail
way service to fix rates of pay in detail,
ut named S4.3o a day as the minimum
or motormen in freight service and STE
or helpers.
4: Enginemen Of milk service trains
usher and helper, receive the rate ac-
orded on through freights, an increase
mounting to from 10 to IS per cent
n their cabs at initial and final terminals
md for time in excess OF 80 minutes spent
l preparing their engines for service.
6. Switch enginemen will receive ar
,dvance in daily pay of % cents on small
ngines and IS cents on large ones.
Z. Men held a day from home termin-
Is shall, after % hours idleness. receive
minimum days pay for 10 hours, based
n last service out of each succeeding
4 hours until he gets a run.
Slight Increase in Pay.
8. Through freight wage rates were
dvanced 5 to 90 cents, increasing witt
,eight of engines, and 20 cents on some
{ the extremely heavy engines
8. Way freight enginernen will receive
o cents more than through freight mer
10. Surprise tests will be conducted ii
uch a way as not to e%ndanger life, lirnl
" nerves.
II. Firemen win be assisted where as
~istance is available in keeping coal for
yard, and the coal shall be broken into
roper sizes at chutes.
II. Where firemen on big engines deem
IN assistant necessary the matter may. i
Necessary, be adjusted through arbitra
ion.
13. Firemen will not be required t.
lean engines, nor Will engineers be re
luired to fill grease cups, set up wedge
.r perform other minor duties about al
he work.
IA. The weight on drive wheels of eacl
engine shall be posted where the engine
men can have convenient access to tn
information
Among the requests that were no
granted We're the automatic release, tim
and a half for overtime in freight an
switching service and the fve-hour da
in passenger service. The award on tn
surprise test was a matter of bite
contention.