Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-10-03
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SCALE OF PAY
IS RETURNED
Agreement Signed At
Chicago Revives Wage
Rate in Force Before
Strike Called.

Strike Called.
Chicago, Oct. 3.-Agreement te
reinstate the old wage scale was
signed here today between the
railroads and brotherhoods.
nhe agreement, which will be
in G feet until October 21, 1928
b. : les maintaining old wage
II 9 is and rules, including time
one half for overtime after
@iours, was considered by the
Sployes' organizations as favor
lie to them. Grievance commit
5es of the trainmen's organiza-
cons on 10 roads entering Chica-
20 had approved the agreement
,efore w. G.. Lee, president of the
rrainmen, and L. E. Sheppard,
president of the conductors, af-
fixed their signatures today.
Roads Make Concessions
The western managers, head
ed by w. M. Jeffers, general man
ager of the Union Pacific railroad
were said to have been mindful
of the long maintained attitude
of the train service brotherhoods
in living ups strictly to their
agreements with the roads and to
have made some concessions in
the progress of negotiations,
which began yesterday.
Under the agreement, all dis
putes as to rules and working
conditions now pending before the
labor board will be withdrawn by
both roads and trainmen and con
ductors The two employees Or
ganizations, in a letter sent to
the railroad labor board today
made it known that all points in
dispute had been ironed out and
requested that their submission
in pending cases be returned to
them.
Must Give Notice
The agreement also contains
clause providing for termination
of the agreement upon 80 days
notice being given. Local griey-
ance committees on individual
roads also were authorized to ne
gotiate with the individual roads
ON local rules.
Today's agreement included the
principal railroads entering Chi
cago and traversing territory
west of the Mississippi river, and
with agreements signed with east
ern lines, approximating three
fourths of the railroad mileage of
the country now has signed up
with the trainmen and conduct
ors, Mr.. Lee announced. Besides
those roads which actually sign
ed the agreement today Others, ac-
cording to both representatives of
the roads and brotherhoods, are
expected to accept the same agree
ment.
33 Railroads Sign
The roads signed today we're:
Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe; Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe;
Baltimore and Ohio, Chicago
Belt Railway of Chica-
90; Chicago and Northwestern
chicago and Eastern Illinois;
chicago, Burlington and Quincy;
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul;
chicago and Western Indiana;
chicago, Rock Island and Pacific;
colorado and Southern; Chicago.
It. Paul, Minneapolis and Oma-
la; Davenport, Rock Island and |
Northwestern; Des Moines I'm
on; Denver and Rio Grande
Western; Duluth, South Shore
nd Atlantic; FL Paso and South
western; Fort Worth and Denver
'ity; Great Northern; Illinois
central and Yazoo and Mississippi
Talley; Minneapolis, st. Paul
nd Sault Ste Marie; Missouri Pa
ific; Northern Pacific; ST. JOS
phi Belt; st. Paul Bridge and
criminal Men; Terminal Rail-
Dad association of st. Louis; Tex
S Midland; Trinity and Brazos
alley; Union Pacific; Union
tockyards of Omaha; Western
acific; Spokane, Portland and
cattle; Minnesota and Interna-
ional; Big Fork and Information
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