Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-06
Similar to Those Rejected by
the Washington Virginia
Railway Company.
TRAINMEN "LOCKED OUT"
ON FALLS CHURCH LINE
Action Follows Individual Question
ing as to Affiliation With
the New Union.

1 W
the management of the road by a
committee representing the EN-
ployes OF the Washington and
| Old Dominion railway. who are
members of the newest traction
employees union in this locality,
together with what is described
as a lockout of employees of
the Washington-Nirginia railway,
were the features of todays de-
velopments in the differences be-
tween local street railway. capital
and labor.
| The Virginia Railway
Company promptly refused to grant de-
mands contained in memorandum of
agreement along similar lines sub
mitted yesterday afternoon by COM
mittee representing its employees In
| Division No. 500 of the Amalgamated
| Associa ton of Street and Electric Rail-
way Employees of America. an organi-
cation whose existence was announced
| yesterday for the first time.
| Provides for Arbitration.
| The agreement submitted today con-
| tains provisions for the taking up of
grievances by the properly accredited
| officers of the union and of the COM
| pany. and for their settlement by arbi
tration. these being similar to the ones
| in the agreement submitted yesterday to
| the Washington Virginia company, and
| it provides specifically in regard to
| steam freight service that:
| Ten hours shall constitute a days
work; the wages of conductors and en-
gineers shall be 81 a day and IS cents
an hour for overtime; the wages of
| brakemen and firemen shall be s2.75 a
day and 80 cents an hour for overtime;
| crews shall be paid for one hour for coal
ing and sanding engines at terminals;
crews shall be paid for every hour it
| takes for doubling in addition to the
regular days work: employees shall have
spective divisions according to seniority
rights. and wages of freight clerks shall
be $50 a month.
For Passenger Train Service.
In regard to passenger-trai service,
the agreement specifies that wages of
motormen and conductors shall be 9
cents a mile, with proper compensation
in case of delays caused by lack of cur
rent, accidents, etc, and that the regu-
! lar days work shall be completed
within fourteen consecutive hours; that
crews on the Alexandria and West
Falls Church shuttles shall be paid 80
cents an hour and the days work be
completed in fourteen hours; that milk
conductors shall be paid $3.50 per trip:
that baggagemen and 1agmen in pas
senger service shall be paid 81 a day.,
and for overtime 22@ cents an hour;
that fiagmen in yard service shall re-
ceive 22l2 cents an hour; that con-
ductors and motormen in freight and
extra service work shall be paid IS
cents an hour. the days work to be
completed in ten hours, and 40 cents
for overtime: that freight handlers
shall receive 25 cents and so cents for
overtime, and ten hours shall consti
tute a days work; that when train
crews are called for extra work they
shall receive IS cents an hour for mo-
tormen and conductors and 2212 cents
for hagmen and that yardmasters shall
be paid a monthly wage of SIS.
In regard to linemen it is specified that
foremen shall receive "a cents and help
ers 81 cents hour Operators shall re-
ceve $50 a month, with proportionate
overtime reimbursement, a day to be ten
hours. Barn and shop men shall receive
IS cents per day over the present scale.
On Great Falls Division.
Concerning the Great Falls division. it
is set forth that ten hours shall constitute
a days work for all motormen and con-
ductors and that their wages shall be 80
cents an hour; that freight and passen-
ger service on this division be separate
and that crews shall not be transferred
from one division to another unless abso-
| lutely necessary. Conductors and motor
men, even if assigned to other work, are
| to be paid at the rate for their own work.
Motormen and conductors taking out
| cars from the barn shall be paid for
not less than an hour. All runs shall
| be arranged on the plan of early and
late straight" and swing" runs are to
be established only when absolutely
necessary.
The agreement. which, it is proposed.
shall be binding for a year. was sub
mitted to William B. Emmert. vice
president and general manager. by the
following committee: Ernest c. Put
William H. Foote and o. F. Carson
The president of the Washington and
Old Dominion Company is Colin H. Liv-
ingstone. the vice president is E. B.
Mclean and the secretary-treasurer Is
Alexander X. Stratton.
Regarded as lockout"
Both Federation of Labor officfals and
members of the union consider as
lock out today's proceedings when
number of trainment employed on the
Falls Church division of the Washing
| ton-Nirginia road were asked as to
their stand. when they reported for
work, acknowledged their membership
and were told their services were no
longer required.
Estimates as to the number of men
this laid off. as given out by railway
officials and by Federation of Labor
organizers, do not agree, the former
claiming that some tWenty-three men
thus terminated their periods of serv-
lice, while the latter contend that all of
the forty regular trainmen were lock
ed out"
Committeeman who yesterday laid
the demands before the Washington-
Virginia officials and a number of
other union members met this morning
at 10 O'Clock in the Ouray building and
called a general meeting Of all the
union members of every branch and
division of both roads for 2 o'clock this
afternoon in Knights of Pythias Hall,