Show UNIFICATION ON LINES HERE TO TOBE TOBE BE WORKED OUT Trainmen COl Confer er Wi With 1 Federa Federal Federal Fed Fed- era eral Manager on Planning for Crews STATUS OF WOMEN WOl IU TO BE DETER DETERMINED TED Future of Fair Car Cleaners W Uncertain as Fighters T Come ConIc Back Committees of ot railway en engineers and trainmen yesterday conferred with II IL v V. V Platt general manager manas-er of of the Ore Ore- ron gon Short Line and also federal t terminal manager or at Salt Lake In re- re r rArd gard s-ard to working out plans In anticipation antici- antici I patton pation of ot possible changes In lo al cr crews s 's when the unification o of all railroads rall- rall j roads entering Salt sit Lake to becomes ef c- c ef- ef 1 Representatives s from the Western Pacific the Denver Rio nio Grande rande the Oregon Oreon Short Line an and tho the Salt Lake Lako Route Including engineers firemen and 3 asked Mr fr Platt what It Iti i will bo be necessary to do In tho the rearrangement ro- ro arrangement ement of oC crews cres No o definite plans have been formulated formulate because r the thc order for tho the consolidation of ot 10 lo- eal railroads has not yet ct crI effective cf- cf j I and no exact late date has been named by Hale Hal Holden regional directorS dl- dl i i rector rectorS Therefore preparations for contemplated changes es will not be finally finalI final final- I ly agreed on until a later laler d date te Will Be lie Protected Some consideration has already alread been given by department heads of the tho Oret Ore Oro- i t gon Jon Short Line Lino to the re employment i I of ot men who left leCt tho the railroad for tor millI mill mill- I I tary tan and naval service ser When demoI demo demo- I begins and the men return here the they will vilI be given their old jobs joba as far tar as cont consistent with their physical cal ability Their seniority rights will wilt willbe be bo respected and they will bo ho protected protect protect- ed od as ns to insurance and pensions the tho same as If It their work for tor the tho railroad j I had been continuous Considerable speculation has been In Indulged Indulged indulged In- In In regarding tho probable displacement dis- dis placement of or women at present eMployed employed em- em In tho mechanical departments of ot the local railroads This will not nott t I prove a serious problem hero here for tho the reason that fe few women are aro so cm- cm In this city Want ant Skilled Men en enIn In the tho car and coach cleaning de departments departments do- do of the We Oregon Short Line Lino there are arc only about sixty five women while in the railroad and there thero are three forty women e c There are about forty women en engaged ged In the capacity of store rc-om rc cler clerks clerics s sand and about eighty eight others are fn rn and telephone operators In Iii the tho general offices and through out the entire system there are arc some Bome clerks stenographers and typists Some of ot those these took places of ot men who left for war but tho the majority of them did not Serious consideration has also b ben been en given en to the matter of or asking the g to release certain skilled men from further military service as Is a shortage of ot skilled labor in several departments department Even before the wat wai ended deferred classification wa was a claimed in man many instances wh where vier r skilled were deemed to tho efficient operation of trains s |