Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-03
STEPS TAKEN To
SOLVE RAILWAY
WAGE PROBLEM
At 4 EARLY DATE:
Wis Asks Railroad ExeCu-
tiveS and Employees TO
Join In Selecting Men for
the Bipartisan Board.
MODE OF PROCEDURE
PRESCRIBED BY LAW
Both Sides Are Requested
By President to Forward
Names of Representatives
to Walker D, Hines,

| lay MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LgasEn wIRul
Washington, March 2-President
| Wilson today asked the railway
Executives and employees to join In.
selecting representatives for a BIZ
partisan board for the purpose OF
attempting by conference to agree"
upon a solution of the railway wage
problem under section 301 of the
railroad bill.
In his letter to the employees,
President Wilson quoted from his
communication to them of last
Saturday, saying he believed such
"A board would go far toward ma
turing the wage dispute, such
number of representatives as may
seem appropriate" to conduct the
conferences.
The president also wrote r. De
Witt Cuyler, chairman of the AS
ISOLATION of Railway Executives.
making a similar request and add
ling that since the transportation
act had become a law "the way ia
open for the immediate handling
OF the wage matter in accordance
with the procedure contemplated
by that law"
Both sides were requested by the
president TO forward the names of
their representatives to Director
General Hines. who, the letter said,
would arrange for the first confer
|ences at which questions of pro-
Cedure and representation which
might arise could be decided.
In his letter to Mr.. Cuyler the
president reviewed the railway
wage situation from the presenta-
ton of the demands last August to
the present time and recalled that
lest month he had told the union
representatives that settlement OF
these demands ought not to be
postponed for n further Indefinite
reriod and that the matter should
be handled by an agency which
could continue 10 function after
federal operation of the roaus
ceased.
since the railroad companies
have now resumed the operation OF
their properties and since tha
transportation act has become
law" he said. "the way is open for
the immediate handling of the
wage matter In accordance with
law.
II believe Gil will agree that the
matter calls for the earliest die
position and for the most active
an! earnest cooperation to avoid
any delay whatever In bringing Ii
to a conclusion. Section 301 of the
transportation act contemplates
that the carriers and employees may
and ought to select Representatives
who will in effect constitute BIZ
partisan board for the purpose OF
attempting by conference to agree
upon a solution Of wage problems
subject to other provisions of the
law.
"In view of the generality OF
these demands, affecting the rail-
road employees on all the railroads
which have been under federal con-
troll and in view of the manifest de-
STABILITY and justice of the earliest
possible disposition of the demands,
| request that the railroad COM
panies select such number of rep
resentatlves as may seem appro-
pirate to them to conduct the con-
ference and negotiations contem-
plated by section sol to the end
that such representatives may
promptly meet In conference with
representatives selected by the em-
ployes In accordance with the re-
quest | am making of them and
may thus initiate the necessary
proceedings
Mr. Wilson said he addressed the
association because he understood
that 1t represented almost all OF
the principal railroads of the coun-
try. He added that he assumed
that the other railroad companies
so far as they might be interested,
would speedily associate them
selves with the companies of the
association In carrying the matter
forward. W
In his letter to the executives OF
the labor organizations. the presi-
dent quoted from his communica-
ton to them last Saturday upon
signing the railroad bill, In which
he called attention to the sections
of the law providing for wage
boards and added.
81 therefore request that your
organization select such number OF
representatives as may seem ap-
propriate to them to conduct the
conference and negotiation .con-
templated by section SOL to the end
that such representatives may
promptly meet In conference with
the representatives selected by the
railroad companies in accordance
with the request I am making of
them and may thus initiate tha
nprpSSary nranaadipoS
Washington, March 2.-Definite
steps were taken today toward set
tlement of the railroad wage con-
troversy, which has been pending