Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-02
CONTRACTS SIGNED
FOR RENTALS DUE
Labor Leaders Announce There
Will Be No Strike Over 81
Wage Situation.
BUT RESENT RAILWAY BILL
Object to Having Demands De-
ferred by President for Adjust
ment by Mediation Board.
BUT RESENT RAILWAY BILL
Try Universal, serxie.l

WASHINGTON, d. c.. March with
the wage situation temporarily in
statu quo. all details involved in the
enormous turnover of the roads today
were worked out smoothly, It was an
nounced by Director-General Walker
ID. Hines tonight. The great transpor-
tatlon systems OF the country. operated
as single road during the war, began
competing with each other at 1901 A.
NJ, when the roads passed out of gov
ernment control.
Director-General Hines today signed
compensation contracts with eighteen
railroads. allowing them the following
sums for rental due:
Southern Railway, $19,165,362; Mis-
souri, Pacific. s14.312,343; Pacific Coast,
$114,osO; Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad Company. s17,0s4,334: York
Harbor and Beach Company. $3.50;
Cincinnati. New Orleans and Texas Pa
cifc. $3,5s6s24; West Jersey and Sea-
shore. $11,s52; Marquette Bessemer
Dock and Navigation Company. s1e,4O7:
Louisiana and Arkansas Company,
S395.362; Florida East Coast, s2,40S,107;
New York Connecting Rairoad Com
pany, $3.50, o,o0o;,. Chesapeake and Ohio.
S13.sss,414; Duluth. South Shore and
eo8psny ba;h ss and canaTai mam
Union Depot and Railroad Company,
GineinnsMti; Cine fil4s42; inteEnati9nal and
New Orleans and Northeastern Com.
paPy. sl.2o4.es2. and Mineral Range
Railroad Company. $4,000.
~ others already signed BY Director
VIII he No Strike.
~ There s,., will be no nationwide rails
This posftiye annoupcament -ao
made tonight by-sofficiaia Of the rail- ns
way labor Mntons. representing the
crate the roads W hich passed into pri-
Although these offlclais manifested
of Gyfl bi tas
Endorsements by the President, they in
Seidfed SebGS shnt hey will ian line
has taken a "4shat's the nsea" Isl attitude de-
new gf rasG asgs
private owners is that 1t is class leg
islation, in that it plays Into the hands
leaders ALSO tss SfrotherhqSd
PRESIDENT in deferrins their wage de-
msnds ma Tor the action OF board Of -ad-
that this post stponement VIII react to
their disadvantage ge In that the fndin es
OF OF the ne board may not be sa tisfactory
their. only alternative would be to
take taxi the wage question up individually
with each OF the more than 1000 rail-
ROAD managements. Meantime, they
say the roads are guaranteed net in
come or Ia per cent and have been
practically assured freight and, pas
income. N"'.
VIII Draft Reply to President.
Railroad labor chiefs, after series
OF meetings today, held an executive
session tonight. at which committee
vas selected TO draft a reply to the
Presidents communication of Satur-
da day, , !, In which he counseled patience
On 2 ,sne part OF the unions In the set
tiement of their demands. 1t was stated
that that no verbal announcement Of la
DOTS policy will be made until the
written answer to the President is
~ was learned authoritatively, how
ever, that the union heads will not at
.emps .er1p TO force, the issue by calling
ply to bpresident Wilson. the railroad
's,nggestions 3, to make regarding the
trsantaiing tsata Of the wage controversy and
tneir inslstence upon some method
which will hasten the decision