The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-06-03

employees and employer shall have mad,
II a sincere effort to effect a settlement
i In case no agreement can be reached
the case may be referred to the board
by one or both parties. The board ther
summons the disputants and holds 8
nearing at which both sides are giver
Poow,ny e tbe present their arguments
which had already put reduction ir
force. was ordered by the board to re-
| store the former rates and the New York
an immediate reduction, pending hear
ng OF the erts Of the dispute. cefeat OF
the EFFORTS OF both roads to cut wages
was then the signal for deluge of cases
which began to pour into the boards Of
ces. Realizing the futility of attempting
separate hearing on. each dispute, the
board combined all the cases for the
sion.
Board Made Public Resolution.
After only one days elaboration, the
board made public resolution on May
stating that prevailing conditions JUS
tilted a readjusIment downward and that
a new wage order would be issued on
or about June /. to be effective July l..
The decision, however. Is not as compre-
hensive as that which granted the $780,
on July 20. 1920. Reductions under to-
days decision will be effective only for
inc &c classes Of employees named by the
April Is and which appeared in the
hearing beginning on that date he in
crease last year affected all so-caped
Class ! roads; including nearly 200 Of
the larger rail system Of the country.
A new hearing will be begun June to
include all disputes filed wllh the board
between April Is and June and speedy
decision Is anticipated in the new case.
members OF the board stating that to-
days decision would set a precedent for
subsequent decisions, Under the Transport
tation Act. seven factors are prescribed
Tor tor consideration in determining Just
ployes. The boards wage increase de-
cision declared all these factors had
peen gwen consideration and that the
rates established were considered just
and reasonable. The decision at that
time said:
The board has endeavored to fix
such wages as will provide decent lv-
ing and secure for the children of the
ana yet to remember that no class OF
americans should receive preferred
treatment and that the great mass of
part of the increased cost Of operation
entailed by the increase in wages.
1t Is hoped that the present decision
ent wages will be felt to be just and
equitable under all circumstances and
railroad employees will accordingly render
the best service of which they are cap
able. If they will do this, il is believed
the American people will receive benefits
far outWeighing the cost of the in
creaSes."
Presented Volume Testimony.
boards declaration that wages as es-
tablished by this decision were just and
reasonable in July. 1920, the railroads
sa vns eoss Of had dneay to
that wages in outside. industries hau
cropped; The railroad representatives
declared wages should be cut in proper
ton. -.-.
The employees. while giving figures
combating the railroads argument of
lower wages and cost of living, made
living wage; The labor men declared
railway workers We're underpaid and at
tempted to set up so-calied living wage"
budgets to substantiate their fight
against any reductions.
Fifteen labor organizations. including
the Big Four brotherhoods, together with
the affiliated members of the railway
ito of labor. represented the employees
involved in the present case. All of the
roads asked reduction of the common
asked reductions in several other
classes, few of the roads filing petitions
for reductions of wages of every en-
ploye.
Names Of The o. Roads.
The following are the lo4 roads: st.
Louis San Francisco; Chicago Great
Western: Denver & Salt Lake; Boston
& Lake Erie. Lake Erie & Eastern;
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western; Lee
high Valley; Ruthland; Gulf Coast lines,
chester & Pittsburgh; Toledo Z Ohio
Central; GAINESVILLE & Western: Kama
wha & Michigan; Kanawha & West
Virginia; Staten Island Rapid Transit:
orado & Santa Fe; Beaumont. Wharf &
Terminal; Ann Arbor; New York New
rnon pepot Rsi%aS Of
Lehigh & New England: Chicago &
North Western; Indiana Harbor Belt;
New s York Central; Maine Central; Port
Chicago & st; Louis and subsidiaries;
Chicago, Peoria & st. Louis; Southern
Pacific Co.; Southern Pacific lines in
Chicago. Burlington & Quincy; Illinois
Central and subsidiaries; Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific; Chicago. Rock Island
& Gulf Central Railroad Of New Jersey;
ton & Maine Newly Ontario & Western;
Chicago. Indianapolis & Louisville; Texas
Midland; Detroit Terminal: Monogaahela;
Philadelphia & Reading and subsidiar-
les; Norfolk. & Western; Northern Paci-
fic: Minneapolis & st, Louis; Michigan
Central e,t Nashville. Chattanooga St
ic; st. Joseph & Grand Island; oregon
Short Line; Oregon Washington Rail
road & Navigation Co.; Hooking Valley:
Pittsburgh & West Virginia West Side
Belt; Minneapolis. st. Paul & Sault Ste.
Marie; Duluth South Shore; Mineral
Range; Minnesota &. International; Big
Fork & international Falls; Chicago &
Eastern Illinois, Chicago, Milwaukee
St. Paul; Wabash; Missouri. Kansas
Texas; Wichita Falls Northwestern;
Missouri. Kansas & Texas of Texas; Belt
Railway Of Chicago; Baltimore & Ohio
Chicago Terminal; Baltimore & Ohio;
Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic; Mary
land. Delaware & Virginia; Central YER
mont, Chesapeake & Ohio; Chicago &
Western Indiana; Chicago Junction Rail-
way: Denver & Rio Grande; Ell Paso &
Southwestern; FIT. Worth & Denver City;
Wichita Valley; International & Great
City Terminal; Kansas City Southern;
Los Angeles & Salt Lake; Lake Erie &
Western; Fl. Wayne, Cincinnati & Louis
Vile; Long Island: Louisville & Nash
vile; Missouri Pacific; Northwestern
Pacific; Pennsylvania Lines: Pere Mar
quette; Tennessee Central: Western
Maryland: Western Pacific.