Show 11 M W at G h S shall they be determined by industrial warfare or federal inquiry to the american public do you believe in m arbitration or industrial warfare the train employed emp loyes on all the railroads are voting whether they will give their leaders authority to tie up the commerce of the country to enforce their demands for a million dollar wage increase the railroads are in the public service your service this army of employed emp loyes is in the public service your service you pay for rail transportation 3 billion dollars a year and 44 cents out of every dollar from you goes to the employed emp loyes on all the western railroads in 1915 seventy five per ce act t of the tra n employed emp loyes earned these wages lowest highest and average of all as shown by the pay rolls passenger Pau ener freight yard range roose range average ranee range average 1747 1537 1056 engineers 2195 ge 2071 21 1370 1378 7 2445 1543 1454 1151 conductors 1878 a 1935 1355 2789 2933 2045 0 03 3 firemen 1317 11 1181 1101 93 2078 2059 1552 brakemen 1135 1107 1719 1961 1821 1 the average yearly wage payments to all western train cm ern aloyes including those who worked only part of the year at as hown shown b by the 1915 payrolls were passenger Pa fenger freight yard engineer engineers a a a 2038 1737 1218 conductor conductors a a e 1772 1624 1292 firemen 1218 6 9 a a brakemen 1000 a a a a a 1026 A million dollar wage increase for men in freight and yard service less than one fifth of all employed emp loyes is equal to a 5 S per cent advance in all freight rates the managers of the railroads as trustees for the public have no right to place his this burden on the cost of transportation to you without a clear mandate from a public tribunal speaking for you the railroads have proposed the settlement M ent of this controversy either under the existing national arbitration law or by reference to the interstate commerce commission this oher offer has been refused by the employed emp loyes representatives shall a nationwide nation wide strike or an investigation under the government determine this issue 4 national conference committee of the railway railways ELISNA LEE chairman A S 8 GREIG A t to receivers V R 1 BRIGHT albright can gen I 1 manager st lou aa e san francisco ra freed all c coast co lin lies Rail railroad rood C W KOUNS gen I 1 manager L I 1 W BALDWIN gen I 1 manager ath on as A san a fe railia Rail railway wa central of georgia railway 6 W Mc Alc MASlER MASIER C 1 L BARDO cen gen I 1 manager V heel heet ng ag and lake erie crl ra re breads new york rew new haven 11 hartford railroad A D MAHER F ce a E H LOAFMAN vice norfolk ami and V wes e ern ere ra re alway Sout southern bera railway jamea gen I 1 Mano a E COTTER gin gen I 1 I 1 manager manogg gr wabash railway I 1 eaver rover rio grande ra ho broad P r LEI asat lice preside A 1 I reddens new lt A k central railroad P no I 1 a an a line A el G H ON lien gen I 1 ala manager n agar W L SEDDON F hc ice P r e dent G greil sor hem ra iway way seaboard a board A r line R ra away iwa G R EN edg ING gen ctrl I 1 A 3 tofie TONE vie vice pm pre dent ph lad ad lph lh a hod read as g railway erie K R baj a it 9 RILE RILL A all a ire pre dent e G S va AID al diee arn cn gen I 1 manage f beverta a 4 b ORA a rn wa 61 cn 1 L a ne |