Arizona republican., 1921-04-20

consents to sweeping reductions of wages, and also consents to surrender it's right to bargain collectively on a scale coextensive with the organi- zation of the employers On Lay Off Policy Taking up first the lay off charges the report presented by MT. Lauck said that railroad shop lay offs, in complete, in the past nine months, were more than 103,000.
 A letter from Raton, N. M, of March II last, charged that on the Santa Fe, in January, after six ma ing machinists were worked overtime l 1216 hours in that month. Examples of what the report called 4-the lay-off policy were instanced from Indianapolis. Los Angeles Nashville, Oswego, N. Y., Horton, Kan, Dubois. Pa, and Ottumwa, Iowa.
 A report from oswego, N. T.. charged that "In March, 1919, the shop here was full of steel flat cars tthat was under government controD and the foreman only had about "A men cutting them down. The rest of the men were walking about doing nothing at all and drawing their pay, | government was paying for it and not the N. Y. c. Now we have all kinds of work and we are laid off" 1 It was charged that in January at Winston Salem a foreman on the 1 Norfolk & Western was caught pull ing tags off bar order cars. while at Bluefield on the same line foremen were alleged to have orders not to have defective equipment repaired. I-.lrx 1A&k ., railroad worker read: There are pulled out of her every day cars with no brakes at all.''
 The report carries statement charging the Baltimore Ohio Rail- road company with laying off car me- chanics while "cars are deliberately run with cracked plates, cracked wheels, broken truck frames" and F other specific kinds of breaks.
 Outside Work
 By far the most Illuminating fact" said the report, 'in any attempt to estimate that lies back of these rail- road lay offs is the fact that prac- tica1ly all of the larger systems have been contracting with outside con- cerns for repair of hundreds of loco- motives and thousands of freight cars which would normally be repaired in their own shops and yards" A list of alleged outside repair jobs in- cluded:
 Union Pacific, repairs with Pacific Car and Foundry company.
 Great Northern, with Seims-Strem bel Car Repairing company.
 Louisville & Nashville, with Amer ican Car and Foundry company. lief fersonville, Ind.
 Michigan Central, with Illinois CaI
 Manufacturing company, at Ham
 mond. Ind.
 New York Central. with A. c. & F
 Go. at Detroit, Ryan Car Co.,, Hege-
 wisch, Ill.,; American Car & Foundry
 Co., Depew, N. Y; Merchants Dis
 patch and Trans. Co.,, East Rochester N. Y.
 Mir. Lauck here named companies
 repairing cars for railroads, which he said had been hiring car repair
 mechanics whom the railroads laiC
 eff. He gave names of some of tho
 workmen and dates of their trans lfers.
 The report charged that the roads
 new policy is to sub contract in or
 der to remove from government con trol many of their men. Numerous
 repair companies. many of them saiC
 to be new concerns, were named al taking over railroad repairs. Thes, included:
 : Hornell Repair & Construction Co., Horneil, N. Y; Erie work
 Buffalo Steel Car Corporation work for eight railroads. including : the Pennsylvania and the Wabash Manitowoc Shipbuilding company 2 Several small shipyards. I Burnham Car Repair company B work of the Indiana Harbor Belt line I Stems Strembel Company, capital I ized at s600,o0O. at St Paul s Empire Car company, at Kankakee T III.
 S Phoenix Transit company, who's g president, the report declared, wa l the son of President F. D. Under f wood of the Erie railroad The re : port said that this company receive,
 the Fries hartor work
 Profit on Repair Work
 The report charged that the R. B
 Owens Construction company, main z, taining tracks between Horner, N. Y 2 and Jersey City, took over an offic !, force which consisted of all the of ]. ficers and clerks the Erie had on tn : same work. They added 15 per cen II to the payrolls as overhead expense
 and G. B. Owens is reported to hay ' cleaned up SIP, 900 a month for pc riod Of one year. When there ap . peared to be probability of an in . vestigation the contract was abol - ished.'
 Figures were presented which Nj I Lauck said showed that the total ex n cess cost of equipment repairs mad - under contract by outside concern e has been sufficient to have paid a t the shop employees laid off through e out the country for full time worI
 It was charged that the average pric g charged by Baldwin Locomotiv T works was approximately four time l. the cost of similar work done in rail l. road shops This was for a specifi e list of repair jobs done apparentl o