The New York herald., 1922-08-29
WAY MEN PETITION
FOR WAR TIME PAY
Ten Eastern Roads Tell Board
They Will Not Join i'm
Controversy.
CALL WORKERS OUTLAWS
Lines Say Men Who Quit Jobs
Have No Legal Right to
Hearing.

Special Dispatch TO THE NEW YORK HERALD
CHICAGO, Aug. 2S.-IssueS which may
test the seniority question and the
arose suddenly awu unexpectedly to-
day out of petition for wartime wages
presented to the United States Railroad
Labor Board by representatives of the
men.
Ten Eastern railroads, on which
maintenance men are now striking, re-
fused to be parties to a wage contro-
versy with the union, saying the work
ers had outlawed themselves by quitting
their jobs. Their point was stated by
John G. Walber, joint representative OF
the protesting roads. The union VIII
reply tomorrow morning.
The objecttng roads We're the New
York. New Haven and Hartford Gen.
trail New England Railway. Philadel-
phia and Reading, Pittsburgh and West
Virginia. West Side Belt. Chicago, In
dianapois and st. Louis; Delaware.
Lackawanna and Western; Grand
Trunk, Monongahela. Pere Marquette
and the Buffalo. Rochester and Pitts
burgh.
More Trainmen Walk out.
While this case, an outgrowth of the
shopmen's strike, was being presented.
the general railroad situation was COM
plicated by violence at several important
centers and partial paralysis of the Chi
cago and Alton through an authorized
walkout of trainmen.
Three men were arrested at Rood
house, Ill, following the dynamiting OF
two Chicago and Alton bridges near
Whitehall yesterday. In the Chicago
yards of the same railroad George New
berry, guard, was shot and perhaps
fatally wounded by Edward T. Burns.
6143 South Artesian avenue, another
guard. dispute as to authority led to
the shooting. Two brothers were shot
and killed by railroad guard at
Camak. Ca
w. Jett Lauck, labor statistician, ap-
peared before the labor board and asked
for an immediate ruling on the basic
principle of living wage. He said ne
wanted the board to apply the principle
to the adult unskilled worker and also
define the differential above the basic
living wage for the skilled worker in
hazardous employment
Whatever adjustment is made in wa ges
viii be done in the absence of two of
the three labor members of the board.
waiter L. McMepimen. who is on vaca-
uon, and Albert Phillips, who was called
TO California by illness in his family, are
the two labor representatives who will
be absent during the entire hearing,
which Is expected to last a week.
Accuses Board OF BIunder.
observers state that the three rem
resentatives OF the railroads are ex-
pected to reject the wage raise plea,
while a. O. Wharton, a labor repre-
sentative. Will view the request more
favorably. Thus to insure wage in
crease all three members of the public
group, including Chairman Ben Hooper.
X. NJ. Barton and G.. W. Whanger.
woald have to give their approval to the
request.
Charging the Railroad Labor Board
with blundering in its previous order
which reduced the wages of mainten-
ance or way men to minimum of
S cents an hour, b. +. Cradle. their
president. in his opening statement
asked that the board acknowledge it's
previous "blunder" by recognizing the
principle OF the living wage, which he
declared would necessitate the fixing
OF the minimum at not less than As cents
an hour.
At present the wage OF track workers
ranges from % to 81 cents an hour. and
the roads will make a bitter fight to
keep II down. on-the outcome of this
right hinges a strike by the track