New Britain herald., 1922-08-19
RAIL PROBLEMS
 LIE IN ABEYANCE Await Outcome of Conferences to
 Be Held Next Week Ts. eat. risss'sDAY OF QUIET (; Com. srs Ponder Over Proposal to End Walk-out-Pennsylvania Road Issues Statement Comparing Stockholders and Employes.
ra, ss,t. nisrs'sDAY OF QUIET

New York, Aug. 19.-(By Associ- ated Press. )--New York for the last two days the scene of conferences be- tween brotherhood leaders and rail- road executives, called in an effort to end the nationwide shop crafts strike, today experienced a lull in ne- gotiations
 Prepare for Meeting.
 Rail chiefs were preparing for a general meeting of the association of railway executives here early next week at which vii be considered a proposition for ending the walkout proffered yesterday by the running trades acting as mediators to com mittee representing the carriers.
 Labor leaders. who had massed in this city during the barley. also were holding themselves in readiness to receive the answer of the employers at another meeting of the mediators and executives set for next WeAnes- day.
 The proposal under consideration by the roads was not officially defined at the end of yesterdays barley. In some quarters 1t was said to provide for immediate restoration of strikers with seniority rights unimpaired. In other quarters it was said to provide for return of the strikers as rapidly as they could be absorbed. with their seniority ultimately to h. settled with satisfaction to all In either case. it was said new recruits were to be re- tsined as extra men would be re- quired in the shops at the end of the strike to repair bad order cars.
 Cuyler Returns.
 T. Dewitt Cuyler, head of the as- sociation, returned to his headauar ters in Philadelphia Other mem bers of the executive committee which in this weeks confer ences were again in their offices awaiting the arrival of western chiefs for the next general session of the 
 Warren s, Stone, president of the brotherhood of locomotive engineers, was making ready to return to Wash ington with Bert M Jewell, head of the shop crafts organizations, and other labor leaders.
 Chicago, Aug. l9.-While wages of employees of the Pennsylvania rail- road increased considerably during he war retaining their high standard even during the business depression .ollow!ng, stockholders, beginning with the slack up of business have been forced to take much smaller dividends, according to a statement ssued today by the management of he road
 The statement was issued to show oy comparison how the recent so- called depression and defation af- 'ected the income Of holders of !n- 1ustrial securities as compared with | he status of labor during the same period.
 Statement Issued.
 The statement, said to be applic- | lble to most roads of the country, | ays:
 In 1914 wages on our railroad | lveraged $S50 a year per erploye. Today after all readjustments, they .veraged s1,550. Our stockholders lumber 40 900 and the average 'wnership is T shares. Before the var Il shares yielded an income of 213 year. In 1921 our directors were forced to reduce the dividend. his cut the return of the average lumber of shares to s142 a year.
 Our cmployes' wages are s2 per ent. higher than in 1914. Our stock olders are getting one-third less ollars than in 1914 and like the mployes they have to meet the igher cost of living, AS between he stockholder and the employe the urdens Of the war have fallen en- rely upon the former