Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-01-10 | Page 6 | Arbitration Agreement Averts Firemen Strike

ARBITRATION AGREEMENT I AVERTS fiREMEN STRIKE i Railroads Accept Mediation of r i. i Judge u ge Knapp and Corn Com t iX- iX missioner N Neill t d- d J j r. r I I N Xe r York Jan 9 Firemen o of tift fifty eastern railroads agreed with the railroad rail roll road road managers toda today to ask Martin arUn A I Knapp Judge of ot the United States j commerce court and Charl Charles s P. P I I Still Neill United States commissioner or of orI orI I labor to mediate under the Erdman I act ah t In their erl contro controversy o over oer er wages f 4 and and- working conditions I 1 I Telegrams Immediately were dispatched dis I patched to Washington requesting I 1 Misers teura Knapp and to act as ar- ar I This a agreement rC was suggested ested b by byI I 1 the railroad c companies It followed the tho rejection this morning by the fire fire- rn n n of ot the railroad proposal to arbitrate arbi I trat the difference before a a. committee commit commit- tlC tee O of oC seven I ven men or to proceed under the tho arbitration agreement agreement carrich put out i in the case of ot the locomotive ell engineers engineer Ab About ut 12 1000 firemen n are ar Involved cd In tho ho present er contro controversy y employed on 1 nil all the railroads cast east of or Chicago o and north of ot the Ohio river I a jo s I