Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-16
bR0THERH00DS To GET
PROSPERITY WAGE ON
EASTERN RAIL LINES
New York Central Withdraws Request Filed
With Labor Board for Decrease of Pay and
Renews Old Contract for Year; Other Roads
Expected to Follow; Burlington Men to go Back

New York, Sept. I5.-(By The
Associated Press.)-The beginning
of the end of all the labor troubles
that have from time to time beset
the transportation lines of the ma
tion for the past several years was
believed by many railway heads
and union chiefs to have come
Friday, when the New York Gen.
trai lines made peaceful settle
ment with two of the operating
hrotherhoods and the Pennsylvania
system began negotiations toward
a similar end
Arrangements for like confer
ences here next week between
brotherhood leaders and six other
big eastern carriers were under
way Friday night.
BY Fridays agreement, the va
rious roads making up the New
York Central system agreed to
continue for one year, beginning
September 80, the present wage
scale and working rules for their
trainmen and conductors and to
withdraw from the United States
labor board their request, made
more than year ago, for a down.
ward revision of wages and the
elimination of time and half pay
for overtime work.
The New York Central gave out g
statement indicating that it would soor
call into conference the leaders of the
engineers and firemen, in the hope oi
amicably coming to terms with them
Saturday that system will bring togeth-
er its officials and leaders of the strik-
ing shopmen in the hope of ending the
strike that began July l.
Penn Road to Follow
W. G. Lee. president of the Broth
erhood of Railroad Trainmen. announc-
ed here that at conference in Pitts
burgh Friday the Pennsylvania hat
agreed to continue its present wages
to all four brotherhoods, but later
from Pittsburgh said this an
was regarded there al
premature. since the conference will
the trainmen and conductors would con
tinue Saturday, while those with the
engineers and firemen had not yet be
gun. Brotherhood leaders assembled
here said, however, they understood
the Pennsylvania would follow the leaC
of the New York Central.
Meanwhile, negotiations TO assure
continued peace between the conductor:
and trainmen and the other big road:
of the east and west are to be car.
ried on here and in Chicago. Mr. Lee
who hailed Fridays settlement as tht
of a cleanup of all the
troubles that have afflicted the coun.
try's rail transportation, said parley:
between leaders of the trainmen ant
conductors and six other eastern road:
would be held here next week and thai
on Tuesday he and L. E. Sheppard
head of the Order of Railway Conduct
ors, expected to begin conferences will
the western group of railway execu
tiyes in Chicago. Their conference:
at Chicago last June. looking toward
agreements covering the future, wers
broken off when the shopmen decided
TO strike.
Those in close touch with the sit
uation heralded the agreements a:
forecasting the complete smashup O
the war-born system of settling rail
road labor troubles on a nation-wid,
basis and the return to the old methot
of letting each road arrange its owl
affairs with its own men.