Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-04

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81 know that this can all be settled
around the conference table" thu
mayor declared. Il have settled ;
good many law suits and it ism
done in FIVE minutes. But if eacf
side yields little, the thing is done
"A strike would demoralize bust.
ness to an awful extent. A tie-ur
of transportation for few weeks
would cut off thousands of workers
from their work and leave the re-
tail stores with their goods on their
shelves.
Let neither side act hastily in
the face of these possible conse-
quences."
Both the company and the COM
mittee of the union asked the mayor
to sit in the conference. He gave
them no definite answer but said
late yesterday that if both sides in
sist he will attend the conference.
The mayor telegraphed last night
to the United States war labor
board, stating just the condition of
of affairs at present.
What Employees Demand.
Following are the demands made
by the carmen of the Omaha &
Council Bluffs Street Railway COM
pany and which officials of the
company turned down Tuesday. The
demands were in the form of con-
tract between the company and the
union:
lit is agreed that all employees
who are eligible to membership in
the association who are now en-
ployed by the company must be-
come and remain members of the
association while in the employ of
the company, and any employee en-
tering the service during the life of
this agreement who is eligible to
membership shall become a mem
Der within a period Of 80 days.
2-The company shall treat with
officers of the union or of its in
ternational board on all questions
of grievances that may arise.
3-Matters which cannot be set
tied otherwise shall be determined
by arbitration by a committee of
three, one appointed by the COM
pany, one by the union and the
third by these two.
Men dismissed shall be rein
stated if investigation and arbitra-
ton discloses the dismissal unjust
and shall receive pay for time lost.
5-Men shall choose runs by SEN
iority.
6-Nine hours shall constitute
working day, counting time from the
beginning of the run to its end.
7-S-Sixty per cent of the runs
shall be Straight time runs" the re-
naming 4 per cent may be swing
runs" wherein a man works during
rush periods, with time off between;
of these 40 per cent, at least half
must include not over Il hours from
the beginning of the first run to the
end of the last; the remaining half
must cover not over IA hours
elapsed time.
9-No run shall pay for less than
nine hours.
10-Time over 10 hours shall be at
the rate of one and one-half the
regular rate.
ll-Pay schedule. the sam~ as at
present. except as to overtime and
swing runs, covered in seventh,
eighth, ninth, tenth and twelfth.
12-"Extras" to be paid a mini
mum of So per day if report for
work, regardless of whether they
are sent out or not, no man to re-
port more than twice daily. pres
ent extra minimum, $50 a monthly
10, IA and l5-Minor changes in
working rules.
l6-Schedule of pay for shop EN-
ployes.
Company Explains Position.
The company's answer pointed
out that in response to a demand
made by the men last June their
differences with the company were
submitted to the federal war labor
board, which made a decision on
July 81, 1918; further, that to keep
the agreement the company has
been obliged to suspend all divi-
dends on both preferred and COM
mon stock and is unable to pay op-
Grating expenses out of the present
income.
The last paragraph directs atten-
ton to the fact that the war labor
board is empowered to enforce its
DEGREES and these words are under
scored:
1--WE warn our employees against
violating the DEGREES of the strong
arm of the governm> t."
Representing the union in the ne
gotiations were Jerry Burnett of
Peoria, ILL.,, special organizer of
street railway workers; ]. H. Nc
MILAN, member of the local union
executive committee; George Whit
low, H. E. Boyd, c. F. Dawson, Gus
Williams, William Weiner and Gus