Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-10-04
49 ROADS SIGN
AGREEMENT WITH
Z BROTHE RHOODS
Santa Fe Is One Of the Rail-
ways Entering Into Con-
tract With the B. of R. 7.
and the 0. R. C.

Chicago, Oct. 3 (by the Associ-
ated Press). A new agreement
maintaining the old rates of pay
and rules and working conditions
was signed today by representa-
tives of Approximately forty-nine
railroads and subsidiaries and the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
and the order of Railway Conduct
ors.
The agreement, which will be In
effect until October 81, 1928, be-
sides maintaining old wage levels,
including time and one half for
over time after eight hours, was
considered by the employees organ
izations as favorable to them.
Grievance committees of the train
mems organization on nineteen
roads entering Chicago, had ap-
proved the agreement before w. @.
Lee, president of the trainmen, and
l.. E. Sheppard, president of the
conductors affixed their signatures
today.
The western managers, headed
by w. M. letters, general manager
of the Union Pacific railroad, were
said to have been mindful of the
long maintained attitude Of the
train service brotherhoods in liv-
ing up strictly to their agreements
with the roads and to have made
some concessions in the progress of
the negotiations which began yes
terday.
Under the agreements, all dis
| e. I'D inc l.
ditions now pending before the la
Dor board will be withdrawn by
both roads and trainmen and con-
ductors. The two employees organ
izations in a letter sent to the rail-
road labor board today made 1t
known that all points in dispute
had been ironed out, and requested
that their submission in pending
cases be returned to them.
The agreement also contains a
clause providing for termination OF
the agreement upon 80 days notice
being given. Local grievance COM
mittees in individual roads also
were used to negotiate with the in
dividual roads on local rules.
Today's agreement included the
Idltl oduS tllltliiib VIZ
cago and traversing territory west
of the Mississippi river and with
agreements signed with eastern
lines. approximately, three-fourths
of the railroad mileage of the
country now has signed up with
the trainmen and conductors. Mr..
Lee announced. Besides those
roads which actually signed the
agreement today, others. according
to both representatives of the roads
and brotherhoods are expected to
accept the same agreement.
The roads which signed today
were:
Atchison, Topeka. and Santa Fe;
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fee: Bal
timore and Ohio: Chicago Tornin-
nal. Belt railway of Chicago: Chi
cago and Northwestern Chicago
and Eastern Illinois: Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy: Chicago, Mil
waukee and ST. Paul: Chicago and
Western Indiana: Chicago. Rock
Island and Pacific: Colorado and
Southern: Chicago. st. Paul. Mime
apolis and Omaha: Davenport,
Rock Island and Northwestern;
Des Moines Union; Denver and Rio
Grande Western; Duluth, South
Shore and Atlantic; Fl Paso and
Southwestern; Fort Worth and
Denver City, Great Northern. I'LL
nois Centrai and Yazoo and Missis-
sippi Valley: Minneapolis. st. Paul
and Sault ste Marie: Missouri Pa
cific: Northern Pacific; ST. Joseph
Belt; st, Paul Bridge and Terminals;
Terminal Railroad association of
st. Louis: Texas Midland: Trinity
and Brazos Valley: Union Pacific:
Union Stock Yards of Omaha:
Western Pacific: Spokane. Port
land and Seattle; Minnesota and
International; Big Fork and Inter-
national Falls.