The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-03-19

constitute a days work. insert eight
hours or less shall constitute a days
work at present 10 hours pay
Overtime to be paid for at not less
than one-eighth Of the daily rate per
hour, .
In yards now working on an eight
hour basis, the daily rate shall be the
present 10 hours standard rate, with
overtime at one-eighth OF the present
standard daily rate. y-
In case the law Is declared uncon-
stituttonal. eight hours or less at pres
emit lO-hour pay will constitute a days
work. -. ',r-f =. ="
Tn passenger service the present
mileage basis will be maintained. ON
passenger service, the rule will be
amended to read eighth within 10
hours
For all classes Of employees in short
turn-around passenger service, where
the rule now reads eight within 10
hours it will be amended to read
eight within 10 hours
For such territory as has no num-
Der Of hours for days work in short
turn-around passenger service, the
elght-withtn- 10-hour rule applies
Overtime to be paid for at lot less than
one eighth OF the daily rate per hour.
The general committees on indi-
vidual railroads may elect to retain
their present overtime rules in short
turn-around passenger service for the
foregoing provisions but may not make
combination OF both to produce
greater compensation than is provided
for on either basis.
In the event the law is held 10 be
constitutional, If the foregoing settle
ment is conflicting with the decision
or the court, that application will be
adjusted to the decision. IL declared
the above stands with
all the provisions as written"
The first intimation that the strike
had been averted came unexpectedly
early this morning when q representa-
tive OF the railroad passengers confer
ence called up The Associated Press
and announced: The strike Ia off,"
Several hours elapsed before the settle
ment agreement was signed and a
brotherhood chief telegraphed division
of1cers resembling the strike order.
w. G. Lee. head of the trainmen ana
spokesman OF the brotherhood chiefs,
declared today that settlement of the
controversy was 'the greatest victory
ever won for labor"
Nearly four hundred thousand
men," he said, have won the eight
hour day without sacrificing a cent of
their money for 1t. We are now in q
the greatest thing ever put over for
labor"
The agreement which averted the
railroad strike was signed in Secre-
tary Lanes room at Ssh this mora
Ing, just few hours after the man-
ayers had agreed to abandon the long
and bitter fight they have made
against the brotherhoods' demands.
AS the last OF the nine to sign IL.
attached his signature, the tension OF
the little group relaxed. The man
ayers and the chiefs shook hands with
one another and with each of the
mediators.
The sun was just touching the white
fronts OF the neighboring skyscrapers
with light. As the dozen broke into
little groups, the room suddenly be-
came silent when w. H. Carter of the
said:
why look out there. It's the dawn
Of a new day"
Most Of those present thought he
had expressed the feeling Of All. FOR
Il was the first time in many years
that there has been much evidences az
friendly feeling between the the men
who run the trains and the men who
them.
At the bottom OF It ali IL was the
spirit OF patriotism that carried the
day.
Conferences will be held here to-
morrow between the railway manag-
ers and the brotherhood chiefs to de-
eide the basis of computation OF back
pay tnasmuch as the new agrearnenf
is to be retroactive beginning Ianuarv
1. It is estimated unoficiaIly that
the men have coming to them between
Sl2,OOO,OOO and $13,000,000 In BACK
wages.
The record Of every mans work bv
mileage and hours has been kept since
January !, In case the United States
supreme court upheld the Adareens,
act as effective on that date IS con-
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