The New York herald., 1921-06-01


Great Western Railroad. declared that
the decision was very disappointing,
"the railways believed that the reduc-
tions I'm the cost of living and I'm wages
in other industries would Justify an
even larger reduction OF railway wages
than the advance granted last summer.
and that the financial condition of the
railroads and the conditions of general
business demanded It," he said,
1.-THE relief granted TO the roads is rel
atively so small as TO preclude early
consideration o. any substantial reduc-
ton of freight and passenger rates, al
though where determinations exist or
where il is shown that the rates are Sc
riously hindering the movement of traf-
fic changes in them will be made"
Beginning of Campaign.
The campaign for lower wages was be-
gun IN February. when Brighten. w. w.
Atterbury. vice-president Of the Pennsyl-
vania lines. first demanded the right to
hire unskiled labor at the rate prevail
ing in each roads territory. Gen. After
bury brought his demand to the board
during the hearing on rules and working
conditions. which the board has not vet
disposed OF, At the same time Gen. At
tefDuTy NtfftttTlOeQ immaculate 3DIOBdtloH
of the national ship crafts agreements.
which. he declared, would further reduce
the railroads labor bill by $500. o.o0o. 00o.
Fifteen labor organiza tions, including
the Big -Four Brotherhoods. together with
the affiliated members Of the Railway
Employees Department American Fed
Grafton of La Dor. represented the en-
lployees involved in the present case. All
of the roads asked reduction OF the COM
mon labor wage scale and numerous car
riers asked reductions in several other
classes, a few OF the roads fling peti-
tions for reductions OF wages of every
employee. The following are the 1o4
roads:
81 Louis-San Francisco, Chicago
Great Western. Denver and Salt Lake,
Boston and Albany. Boston Terminal.
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie. Lake Erie
and Eastern. Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western Lehigh Valley. Rutland,
Gulf Coast Lines. Houston Belt and Ter
minal. Buffalo. Rochester and Pitts
lhurgh Toledo and Ohio Central. Zanes-
vile and Western. KanawAa and Mich
igan. Kanawha and West Virginia,
Staten Island Rapid Transit. Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Gulf. Colorado
and Santa Fe; Beaumont Wharf and
Terminal: Ann Arbor: New York. New
/
lnnd Erie and subsidiaries Central
Union Depot and Railway of Cincinnati
| Lehgh and New England, Chicago and
| Northwestern. Indiana Harbor Belt. New
| York Central. Maine Central. Portland
| Terminal. Cleveland, Cincinnati. Chicago
and st. Louis and subsidiaries Chicago
Peoria and ST. Louis Southern Pacific
Company, Southern Pacific lines in Texas
and Louisiana, Grand Trunk. west Chi
aac In ~tn
Central and subsidiaries. Chicago. Rock
Island and Pacific; Chicago. Rock ISL
and and Gulf; Central Railroad Of New
Jersey, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and
Western Boston and Maine, New York
Ontario and Western Chicago. Indian
apolis and Louisville, Texas Midland
Detroit Terminal, Monongahela Great
Northern. Buffalo and Susquehanna
Philadelphia and Reading and subsidi-
aries. Norfolk and Western. Northern
Pacific, Minneapolis and ST. Louis
Michigan Central. Nashville. Chatta-
nooga and st. Louis: Bangor and Aroo-
stock, Union Pacific, ST. Joseph and
Grand Island. Oregon Short Line
Oregon Washington Railroad and Navl-
CATION Company, Hooking Valley. Pitts
burgh and West Virginia West Side
Belt, Minneapolis. st. Paul and Sauli
Ste. Marie Duluth South Shore, Mineral
range, lIlIlHtbOld anu
Big Fork apd International Falls. Chi
cago and Eastern Illinois, Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul; Wabash Missouri
Kansas and Texas; Wichita Falls ant
Northwestern, Missouri. Kansas ant
/ Texas OF Texas; Belt Railway of Chi
cago. Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Ter
mlnal. Baltimore and Ohio; Baltimore
| Chesapeake and Atlantic. Maryland
Delaware and Virginia Central Yer
mont. Chesapeake and Ohio. Chicago ant
! Western Indiana. Chicago Junction Rail
/ way. Denver and Rio Grande. E Pase
! and Southwestern. Fort Worth and Den
/ yer City, Wichita Valley, lnternationa
and Great Northern. Indianapolis Union
! Kansas City Terminal, Kansas City
| Southern, Los Angeles and Salt Lake
! Lake Erie and Western, Fort Wayne
Cincinnati and Louisville; Long Island
Louisville and Nashville, Missouri Pa
| cific. Northwestern Pacific. Pennsylvania
| lines, Pere Marquette. Tennessee Cen
! trail Western Maryland Western Pacific