The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-02
RAILROAD MEN OPEN
WAGE NEGOTIATION
Eight Hour Day Demand to Be
Heard in Public at Both
Sides Request.
CREDENTIALS CHECKED

The first session between the rail-
Of the four big brotherhoods at the
Engineering Societies Building yesterday
was a who's who" meeting entirely.
The union men. who I've demanded
ten hours pay for IN eight hour day
and other trimmings. showed that they
were there for business at the outset
by asking just how many railroads the
nineteen general managers represented.
There are. according to statistics. about
45s systems altogether in the country
and some 1890 different lines.
That ended any hope of other business
for the day. Thereafter from 10 O'clock
in the morning until l 30 =. NJ. Elisha
Lee Of the Pennsylvania Railroad. char
man OF the national conference ommi:-
teo Of the railways. was reading on
the names Of lines while the men were
| checking up. When II was all over u
had been found that there were some
| slight Irregularities or mistakes In the
| credentials Of about twenty lines. and
later the telegraph wires carried re-
quests for proper authorization. which
will arrive by the time to-day's session
begins at 10 o'clock this morning.
II was a solid. responsible looking
delegation OF 400 or 500 railway en-
ployees OF the engineer. fremen. brake
men, conductor class which gathered
yesterday morning.
Warren 8. Stone. Grand Chief Of ;he
Locomotive Engineers. might be a pros
porous business A. u. Garretson'
president Of the Railway Conductors
looks like a shrewd lawyer; Timothy
Shea, assistant 20 President w. $. n
ter of the Locomotive Firemen and En-
pine men who IA serving In the TEN
porary absence Of his chief. and T. X
Dodge, who represents W. q. Lee OF the
Railway Trainmen. both are keen busi-
nesslike men with no time for hamboyan'
speaking.
The first session yesterday was execu'
tive, but to-day reporters will be al
mitted. because, rs both sides cay, thes
want the public 10 look at every caro-
laid on the table. The union meT
SAY they have not come 20 arbitrate. bu'
TO insist on the eight hour basic day
They do not know whether the conference
will be Ions or short. but they DO sa!
that their stat'~ticians have prepared
figures which will contradict some o
the figures prepared by the other side
and they will not hesitate to put then
forth at the proper time. .
The general managers Of the road
who represent the three big railway as
sociations are
L. w. VI Wv >''AA''
Georgia, c. l.. Bardo Of the New Haven
T.. II. Coapman, Southern: :. T.. Cotter
Wabash =. T. Crowley. New York Cen
trail Lyman De.ano. Atlantic Coast Line
G.. II. Emerson. Great Northern g. "A
Ewing. Reading: T.. w Grice. Che~a
pcake and Ohio a. :. Grieg. Frisco
e. W Kouns. Santa Fe II. W. McMas
ter. Wheeling and Lake Erie; y. r
Maher. Norfolk and Western +. y. Nor
r,ssev. Burlington James Russell. Den
yer and Rio Gralde; A. NJ. Schoye'
Pennsylvania Lines West W T. Ssddo
OF the Seaboard Air Line A. J. Stone o
the Erie and Elisha Lee. chairman.
In a statement announcing that IN
meeting would he pubic tho rail"a
managers said last n!sht:
~ the railroads must add 10 IN
wages OF a portion Of their employee
many millions of dollars II ~ plain tina
this means an additional cost To tn
transportation industry OF the countr,
In which the people Of the country ar
vitality interested