Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1912 — RAIL WAGE CONFERENCE [ARTICLE]

RAIL WAGE CONFERENCE

Engineers on Railroads [Demand Increased Pay. Granting Their Wish Would Add Ten Million Dollars to Oost East of the Mississippi. New York, March 15. Arguments supporting their demands for increased wages, prepared by a committee of fifty locomotive engineers headed by Warren S. Stone, grand Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, were presented ata joint conference with a committee of officials of forty-eight eastern railroads. The engineers desire the increase in order that their wages may be brought to a level with those paid on roads west of the Mississippi riyer. The railroad ■officials,' after considering the demands, estimate that the wages demanded amount to about $10,000,000 a year increase to the cost of railroad transportation. Following arguments a recess of sev- „ er al days was taken in order to permit the railroads tp consider the proposals and formulate a reply. The demands presented are quite technical in form and have to do with passenger, electric, freight, switching and belt line service, together with final terminal and initial terminal delays.