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ward with assurance to your success.
Cordially and sincerely yours,
WOODROW WILSON"
Judge Chambers issued this mem.
orandum:
AS a result of the efforts of the
board of mediation to bring the rail.
road executives and the brotherhoods
engaged in train operation to an
agreement that there shall be NO in
terruption In their relations on either
side until ample opportunity shall
have been afforded the board of me-
diation and Cancellation to bring
about, II possible, an amicable agree
ment and that in event of q failure
to bring about such agreement any
controversy will be submitted to ar
bitration in accordance with the New
lands law.
"At a conference In Cleveland, o..
Thursday last, between Judge Cham
bers and Warren s. Stone, grand
chief OF the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers; w. s. Garter, presi-
dent of the Brotherhood of Loco.
motive Firemen and Enginemen; L.
Il. Sheppard, first vice president of
the Order of Railway Conductors,
and w. G. Lee, president of the
Brotherhood Of Railway Trainmen, 1t
is understood certain substantial
agreements were reached. Judge
Chambers declined to state what
these were. but rumor is the execu-
tives of the labor organizations
agreed to the mediation features Of
the proposal, and it is inferred that
the conference with the president
planned for 2:30 Thursday afternoon
will have reference to the arbitra-
tion features Of the proposed arbi-
%tration."
Judge Chambers did not feel au-
thorized to say what subjects would
be discussed at the conference and
declined to intimate what results
were anticipated. He regards the
conference as involving q most Sc
rious situation, as the transportation
problem is perhaps the most import
ant connected with successful prose.
cution of the var measures Of the
administration. The Switchmen's
Union of North America, it is III
derstood, has agreed to the media
ton and arbitration proposals as a
whole, and it is believed this is the
attitude also of the Order of Railway
Telegraphers. The proposal is to be
submitted to the conference commit
tee of managers and the railways,
and it is anticipated the railroad ex.
ecutives will agree to both mediation
and arbitration.
HEAD OF TRAINMEN
DISCUSSES SITUATION
Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 14.-W. G..
Lee, president of the Brotherhood OF
Railway Trainmen, when asked what
position the trainmen would take in
reference to agreeing to arbitrate all
questions of controversy during the
war, declined to discuss this subject
until after the meeting with Presi.
dent Wilson, but did intimate strong
ly that his organization was unquali-
fiedly opposed to the plan Of arbitra-
ton provided for in the Newlands
law.
MI. Lee confirmed the report that a
meeting of the four chief executives
Of the transportation brotherhoods
with President Wilson is to take place.
He also confirmed the statement that
the question Of mediation and arbitra-
ton as referred to in the presidents
letter to VIM. L. Chambers of Octo-
Der 26th probably will be made the
Of discussion at the White
House meeting. He stated that many
thousand transportation employees Of
represented by his organiza-
ton received only $2.65 a day of eight
hours, and that it vas absolutely i'm
possible for them to maintain the
standard of living in effect prior to
the wal without a substantial increase
In pay. He said trainmen are just as
patriotic al any class of workmen and
that no less than two thousand mem
bers Of the Brotherhood Ire in the
or naval service, and in order
70 insure one hundred per cent patriot
ism Of working men, they must be
paid rates that will keep them and
heir families from being hungry. He
felt confident the government, like
that Of Great Britain, would see to it
living wages are assured those upon
whom the burden Of war falls the
heaviest.