Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-14
10000 RAIL MEN
TO VOTE ON STRIKE
Wage Dispute Unsettled and
Brotherhood Is Distributing
Ballots to Membership.

BY the Associated Press.
| CLEVELAND. Ohio. August l4~-Sec'
| tional meetings We're called today tC
| distribute strike ballots to approx
mately 10000 employees of Western
railroads Wage disputes between The
| roads and the Brotherhood Of Railroad
Trainmen and the Order Of Railway
Conductors precipitated the action.
A F. Whitney, president of tbs
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
said the ballots would be distributed
today by 90 general chairmen of the
two hrntherhoods meeting with their
committees throughout the West The
decision will be announced September
:. the deadline for the return of bal
lots TO Chicago headquarters.
Railroads in West Affected.
About 50 railroads, owning approxi-
mately % per cent Of the mileage west
OF Chicago. are involved. Wage differ
enCeS have been settled by arbitration
III the East and South
AS result Of the failure of recent
efforts to settle the wage question by
arbitration in the Western States the
balloting will be on the original de-
mands Of the unions for increases
ranging from 10 per cent for yardmen
to Is per cent for trainmen and con-
ductors Whitney said
The labor organizations recently re-
1ected an offer of a 7l2 per cent in
crease because the union insisted on
retaining certain existing working rules
which the Western roads wished "a
abolish, Among the rules in dispute
were those governing the restrictions
on the use Of two locomotives and the
number Of cars to be pulled by two
engines.
List of Railroads Affected
Railroads affected by the strike vote
are Atchison. Topeka g. Santa Fe. in
Guiding Eastern, Western and Coast
lines: Gulf Colorado Ss Santa Fe: Pan
Of Chicago, Chicago & Eastern Illinois,
Chicago & Northwestern, Chicago a.
Western Indiana
Chicago. Burlington g. Quincy. Chi
cago & Great Western, Chicago. Rock
Island 81 Pacific: Chicago Terre Haute
& Southeastern: Chicago. Milwaukee.
St. Paul & Pacific: Chicago. Rock Island
& Gulf: Chicago, ST Paul, Minneapolis
& Omaha; Colorado & Southern.
Davenport. Rock Island & North
western. Denver & Rio Grande West
era, DeS Moines. Union; East ST Louis
Junction Railway, Fort Worth & Denver
City, Wichita Valley. Great Northern.
Brandon, Saskatchewan g. Hudson s
Bay; Grows Nest Southern, Nelson &
Fort Sheppard, Vancouver, Victoria &
Eastern Railway q Navigation Co.
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Gulf Coast lines, including new
Orleans, Texas and Mexico: st. Louis.
BTJwnsville d Mexico Railway Orange
g. Northwestern. New iberia &; North
ern, Houston Belt & Terminal. Illinois
Central, including Yazoo & Mississippi
Valley; Gulf e. Ship Island, Interna-
tional g. Great Northern. San Antonio
Uvalde e. Gulf: Houston & BrazoS Val
ley, Kansas City Southern. Texarkana
g. Fort Smith. Kansas City Terminal
Minneapolis. St Paul. Sault Ste Marie.
Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic
Mineral Range. Minnesota g. Inter.
national. Big Fork G. Internationa
Falls, Missouri. Kansas g. Texas. Mis-
souri,, Kansas Texas of Texas: Mis-
souri, Pacific. Northern Pacific, Ogden
Union Railway Depot, Rio Grande
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Joseph Terminal. St Paul Bridge &
Terminal, ST Paul Union Depot Co
st. Louis. San Francisco. ST. Louis. San
Francisco g. Texas, Fort Worth g.
Rio Grande, Birmingham Belt Rail-
road. Paris-Great Northern, ST. Louis
Southwestern
Other Lines Included.
ST Louis Southwestern Railway a
Union Depot, South Omaha Termina
Railway. Southern Pacific 81 Pacific
System. Southern Pacific Lines-Texa.
IL Louisiana including Houston &
Texas Central. excluding yardmen a
Houston Terminal: also brakemen o.
former H. g. B. v. l.. also excluding
all classes Texas Midland Railroad
Galveston. Harrisburg g. San Antonio
Railway Co: Texas e. New Orleans
excluding yardmen in Beaumont yard
Louisiana Western Railroad, excluding
brakemen of the l.. G. e. n.
Morgan'S Louisiana & Texas RAILWAY
& Steamship Co. Iberia e. Vermillior
Railroad. Houston, East and Wes'
Texas, the conductors only. excluding
the brakemen and yardmen: Houston
6y Shreveport, conductors only, exclud
ing brakemen and yardmen: Spokane
Portland & Seattle Railway Oregon
Trunk Railway. Oregon Electric Rail
way, United Railways Co.
st. Louis Terminal.
Terminal Railroad Association of st
Louis and its leased and operating line,
including st. Louis Merchants Bridge
Terminal Railway Co, East st. Louis
Connecting Railroad, st. Louis Trans.
fer Railroad
Texas IL Pacific Railway. Texa
Pacific Missouri Pacific Terminal Rail
road Of New Orleans, Trinity & Brazo
Valley, Union Pacific System, includini
| Union Pacific Railroad, Oregon Shor
. Line Railroad. Oregon Washington
/ Railroad e. Navigation. Los Angeles 4
/ Salt Lake, St Joseph IL Grand Island
/ Union Railway CO. memphis, Tenn }
! Wabash, Western Pacific and Beau
mont Sour Lake & Western Of GtIl
/ Coast lines.
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