Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-05

tormen employed by said company shall be as follows:
 First six months 2sc per hour Second six months .s.. 30c per hour Second year .......... 3zc per hour Third year s......... 35c per hour
 This is one of the sections that he calls rreposterous. said Mr. O'Brien. He says the employees are earning from $25 to $2S per week. will take the maximum rate, 35c per hour for a nine hour day, seven days a week. and that will give the motormen or conductors $2205 a week and figures
 Section 26--A days work for en- gineers, oiimen, firemen and coal passers, shall be eight hours straight. The wages for engineers shall be $21l per week. Oilers, $1s.50 per week. Bremen, SIS per week. Coal passers, $15 per week.
 Section PA days work for all employees in shops and car houses shall be nine hours for week days. td be comp1ted with ten consecutive hours. and eight hours for Sundays and legal holidays to be completed within nine consecutive hours. Yesterday was handed paper from eight civic bodies in this vici- nity offering to help mediate the diff heulty. thanked the man in be- half of our men. I said to him. any, thing you can do to bring about a set clement will be seriously considered by the employees.
 Have Brought Women Detectives.
 The company has not stopped at bringing in the men, but they have brought in the females. And what have they brought in the females for? 2? To bluff the public by trying to make them think the people are riding on the cars. These women detectives and these male detectives are the only l people riding on the cars. In closing MT. O'Brien appealed to the people to stand with the striking men and to see that they have a square l deal.
 Robert McNeely was the next speak CT Introduced. Wednesday of this week, said Mir. McNeely, the men stopped their runs. Tn this beautiful city of l side guardians. think we have enough men in blue to look after our own interests.
 It has been said that men and women | have been brought to the city to ride on cars. I have proof of that in my 1 travels about the city. It is very mo- 1 ticeable that there are very few fares l collected. They are riding free. find 1 in the agreement read nothing except a chance to earn a mere livelihood. l am sorry for the sacrifice made. I am sorry for the merchants who have lost
 
 Warranted action of this company. Am l other thing that was stated was that the men are going back. wish to contradict that. The men are not go- ing back.
 Are Willing to Arbitrate.
 John Rear1on of Worcester, a mem- Der of the general executive board o1 the Amalgamated Street Railway Em- p1oyes of America, was the next speak I CT. Our association and its members are willing to submit to arbitration + said MT. Reardon. It is a matter o1 fact that the street railway men o1 Connecticut, barring Danbury, have been the laughing stock of the street railway emp4oyesN of New England They are paid lower wage than any street railway employees in New Eng land.
 These men have been long suffering They have waited patiently. There was a strike vote taken year ago. It was only after a great deal of consideration that the men agreed to accept slight
 increase that you might not be incon- venienced. l don't want you to leave this hall with the idea that this strike fl is mushroom affair, has sprung up iI a night. It has been brewing Ions time. We will submit this thing tC arbitration and just as soon as tht company agrees to arbitrate our mer will return to the cars until this thing is settled by a disinterested board ,i The next man introduced was Will 7iiam B. Fitzgerald of Troy, N. r. Hs said a community without labor trou-
 bles was dead community. There il no one who really wants to see a strike
 There is no one who knows wha1
 strikes are any more than the stree
 railway employees.
 When these men ask the privilege of having someone present to protec
 their interests the company says No you are an outsider. dare say somt of the officials of this company don | live within 5000 miles of here. H, said the object of the increase to tht
 power house and car barn employes was to break the union.
 Isn't there someone in this com munity who will rise up and demand that this strike be settled? said M1 z Fitzgerald Let is be the executive O . mand peace. In closing he said tn people ought to take a position de 5 manding arbitration.
 President Fitzgerald in closing tn meeting said if some civic body doesn' l take some action then they will have t deal with organized labor throughou . this city.
 Massachusetts Agreements. < MT. O,Brien handed the press re \ porters copies of agreements entere ] into by Massachusetts street railways ! to show, as he said, that Massaclausett
 roads have been paying higher wage than the Shore Line. One of tn i, agreements was signed Aug. s, 1913, ab the Boston and Worcester Street Rail
 way company and the Ana1ganate Association of Street and Electric Rail way Employes of America. This agree ment showed the wage scale to be a follows:
 During the first year. 2s 1-2c pc : hour: during the second year, 24 1-2 I per hour; during the third year, 25 1-2 per hour; during the fourth year. 2 1-2c per hour; during the fifth veal 3 27 1-2c per hour; during the sixth yea Z 2Sc per hour. This wage scale "a. ? from Aug. 1, 1913, to July 31, 1914.
 From Aug. 1, 1914. to Oct. Sl, 1911 ' the wage scale was as follows: During the first year, 24c per hour
 during the second year, 25c per hour 7 during the third year. 26c per hour a during the fourth year. 27c per hour < during the fifth year, 2sc per hour ! during the sixth year, z9e per hou < This agreement has gone out of exist ' ence ands another with higher rate ha \ taken it's place.
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