The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-11-16
UNIONS PREPARE TO
ANSWER DISPUTES
Railway Brotherhoods Work Out Plan
of Action.
BOARD MEMBERS CHOSEN
Joint Adjustment Agencies to Be Set
st Up in Various Districts.

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Chicago Nov. 15.--Plans of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
and Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire.
men and Engimen meet demands
of the railroads for revision of rules
and working conditions agreements
and for further wage cuts were COM
pleted today at the close of a two-day
session of $50 general chairmen and
officials.
Warren S. Stone, grand chief Of the
engineers, and William S. Carter, pres
ident of the firemen and enginemen
explained the settlement under which
the recent general strike order was
cancelled and received their followers
endorsement of their action.
Requests from ninety-eight railroad
for revision of rules and working
conditions were considered, and the
counter demands formulated. Mr.
Stone announced tonight the unions
were agreed on concerted program
in the rules cases.
Adjustment Boards
Announcement was made today that
the four big brotherhoods have signed
agreements with roads in the Eastern
Western and Southeastern districts
for setting up adjustment boards, pro-
vided for in the Esch- Cummins Trans
portation Act. Two assistant grand
chiefs will represent the engineers on
the boards-F. A. Burgess on the
Southeastern, and H. P. Daugherty
on the Western.
The Brotherhood Of Railway Train
men will be represented by A. f. Whit
ney on the Western, and w. N. Doak
on the Southeastern board. No ap-
pointments to the Eastern board have
been announced as yet. Representa-
tives of the other unions have not
yet been selected
Creation of the boards is expected
to speed up the work of the United
States Railroad Labor oBard by re-
lieving its docket of the hundreds of
petty cases of individual grievances.
All sue hdisputes will be first re-
ferred to the nearest adjustment
board for arbitration, and only in
event of deadlock on the board will
the case come before the government
tribunal here.
Eight Members
Each of the boards is to have eight
members, one from each of the broth
erhoods and four representing the
roads in it's territory. Meetings will
be held monthly in New York, Wash
ington and Chicago. The agreements
run for one year, and may be re-
newed
Roads in the Eastern territory
which have already signed the agree
ment include the Baltimore and Ohio
system; New York Central; Cleveland
Cincinnati, Chicago and Louis Rail-
road; Lake .Grie and Western; Toledo
and Ohio Central; GAINESVILLE and
Western; Kanawha and Michigan;
Boston and Albany; Michigan Cen
tral; Pittsburg and Lake Erio; In
diana Harbor Belt Railway; Cincin-
natl Northern; Kanawha and West
Virginia, and Evansville, indianapolis
and Terre Haute Railroad.
The Southeastern district agreement
bears the signatures of the Atlanta
and West Point; the Western Railway
OF Alabama; Atlantic Coast Line; Cen
tral of Georgia; Charleston and West
ern Carolina; chesapeake and Ohio;
Florida East Coast; George Railroad;
Louisville and Nashville; Louisville,
Henderson and st. Louis; Nashville,
Chattanooga and st. Louis; Norfolk
and Western; Norfolk Southern; Rich
n1ond. Fredericksburg and Potomac;
Seaboard Air Line; Winston Salem
Southbound, and the Gulf and Ship
Island Railroad.
In the Western territory the. agree
ment has been approved by eighteen
roads.
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