The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-02
STRIKE Loss EQUAL
TO RAISE FOR YEAR
". R. & E. Vice President
Gives Figures to PrOber&
ONLY RAINMM INCLUDED
Ham Says Their Dc7.nd involved
$375,000 Additional.
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twelve months, than a Washington
Railway and Electric Company train
man OF similar service would get In
the same time under the individual
contract.
A ten-year Capital Traction train
man would receive S2O.2S more than a
man who had worked under the indi-
vidual contract for a similar period.
After ten years the difference in favor
OF the Capital Traction men would be
less, the wage schedules OF the two
companies being practically the same
subsequent TO the elapse Of that Pc
riod.
Other computations by Mr.. Ham,
based on 3l2 working days Of ten
hours each, showed that the Capital
Traction Company, by its new wage
scale. would pay $50 trainmen $685.
e12 q year, while the Washington
Railway and Electric Company. un-
der the individual contract, would
pay f722, 4e6.
Total Of se7SyO0O Demanded.
Mr.. Ham testified that the original
demands presented by the union call
ing for an aggregate increase Of
$500. 900 q year for the trainmen also
provided for q total increase OF
s3T5, 900 in the wages of employees in
other departments, making q grand
total Of s675. 900 in increases demand
ed. Under the terms Of the 1915 con-
tract the Washington Railway and
Electric Company was paying approx
imately t6T5,2e1 to its trainmen. An
aggregate OF tsT1.s 44 would have
been required to pay each trainman
IS cents an hour.
Mr.. Ham had not completed his sta
tistical testimony when the COMMITTEES
adjourned at noon TO meet at 10
o'clock on Monday morning. The SEES
sion scheduled for tonight was called
on because Of the departure of Sena-
tor johnson Of California from the
city. TO be absent until Tuesday.
The computations were introduced
after the committee had heard the
story OF the formation OF the union
and the reasons for organizing IL, as
told by Garth W. Calderhead, imam
cIal secretary OF the union Preced-
ing Calderhead on the witness stand
was Frank c. Nelson, an accountant
employed by the Washington Rail-
way and Electric Company, who tes-
tined as TO the receipts and expendi-
lures OF the strikers union.
Calderhead, who was called to pro-
duce records showing the number or
applicants for membership in the
union after IL was formed, admitted
that he was one of the hrst and
most prominent workers for the for
nation Of the union. and that he was
admitted to the organization after he
had been discharged by the Washing
ton Railway and Electric Company
for recklessly operating an owl car.
Tells Of Unions Formation
The witness said that conditions un-
der which the trainmen worked and
what they considered injustices perpe-
trated upon them caused the hrst dis
cussion concerning the formation OF the
union. He said that he and several as
sociates concluded that something ought
to be done to remedy conditions He
conferred with officials OF the American
Federation Of Labor concerning the Gre
alton Of the union
Calderhead said he was referred to, the
AmaIEamated Association Of Street and
Electric Railroad Employees Of America,
and asked officials Of that organization
to send a representative here to form
a local
Responding to q question by Attor-
ney James H. Valley, representing the
strikers at the hearing, Calderhead
said the Amalgamated Association
was invited into the Washington la
Dor neld, and did not thrust itself
upon the National Capital. as con-
tended by the company.
The witness said that employees in
other than the transportation depart
ment applied for membership in the
union last year. but they were dis
couraEed from joining until February
Of this year because the company
would have discharged them upon
learning Of their becoming members
Of our organization" Calderhead ad-
mitted that the union had been form
ed secretly and said this was neces-
sary because the company would have
discharged every man known 10 have
Joined the union.
The Unions Finances.
Accountant Nelson testified that
the books OF the union showed that
between February ! and May 10 the
organization had received S3,106 in
dues and fees. ST,140 in donations
from labor unions and individuals,
and S2,0T6 from the sale Of tags on
the streets OF Washington. This, to-
Eether with a bank balance OF S3,-
674 on February 1, made the financial
assets SI5,e9s.
The expenditures included the pay
ment OF Sl5,43S as benefits to the
strikers, $3.50 for miscellaneous ex-
penditures. and 81 500 for collateral
and the premium OF bail bonds fur
nished for members Of the union ar