The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-09

NhlCaGO, April Testimony m contradiction or modification of eyi- dence given before the United States commission on industrial relations yesterday by Charles IT, Markham, president of the Illinois Central, was given today by A. 0. Wharton, presi- dent of the Railway Employees de partment of the American Federation of Labor; James ]. Mayer, former president of the Machinists local at Clinton, Ill., and J. l.. McCreery of Paducah, Ky.
 Much of the testimony dealt with Mir Marllham's expressed fear of the plan of the men to form federations of craftsmen by railroads instead of having the crafts belong to strictly craft unions.
 Under the old plan the railroads were able to play one union against another, and the expense of seeking redress of grievances was tod great to be borne by the weaker unions" " said Mir. Wharton.
 His fear that the railroad mem bers of certain crafts would be domi. mated by members not employed by the railroads was unfounded. The system federation plan provides that the grievances of the railroad men shall be considered only by those men and not by members of the craft not employed by the railroad in- volved. For instance, a strike of ma cainists at an industrial plant would not affect members of the body be- longing to the system feredaton"
 "If there was strike at the Bald. win Locomotive Works, would the men on a railroad using Baldwin en. zines strike, too, rather than repair such engines?' asked Commissioner R. H. Ashton.
 "The point has never come up." MT Wharton replied, "but we have federations on g railroad systems and no refusal of that kind has ever been brought to our attention'
 Mir. Ashton asked the witness opinion of the Canadian arbitration law.
 "One feature of that Jaw is bad for the men" said MT. Wharton. "It compel sarbitration but three months delay is allowed before the law be. comes operative. Tn the case Of a coal mine strike the law operated to give the mine owner three months in which he built stockades. imported strikebreakers and made other prep arations, while the men were help less. In the case l have in mind the union was wrecked by the laws delay"
 MT Ashton brought up the subject of iurisdictional disputes in whicl no complaint against an employer is in- volved. Mir. Wharton replied that there have been many such disputes on the roads federated and that in no single case have the officials failed 10 adjust matters without the men miss. ing days work
 If the employers really want to do something for industrial peace and the ptblic good they will foster the federation plan" said the witness earnestly.
 MT Mayer was one of three men whose arrest for the alleged violation of an injunction against picketing the Illinois Central shops at Clinton was noted in the testimony of Mir. Mark ham.
 MT Markham said that the men were dismissed by Judge Humphrey at Springfield with q warning."
 Judge Humphreys attitude was the reverse said the witness. The testimony of the railroad strikebreaH CTS was suca that Judge Humphrey's suspicious were aroused and he re- marked that there seemed to be per jury somewhere. He was so im- pressed with this that a fourth man arrested with us, Harry Andrews, who did not try to get bonds so our case could be prepared and who in consequence was sentenced to thirty days in jail, was ordered released forthwith by the judge"
 MT. McCreery, former shopman at Paeucah, where he worked for the Illinois Central, and present vice president of the Railway Employees department, contradicted Mir. Mark ham with reference 10 details preced- ing the strike of shopmen in 1911 and gave his version of the introduction of a form of the piecewOrk system at Paducah.
 We objected to the piecework sys- tenn because it crowds out men old in