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Show EFFORT TO SETTLE TOOUBLEJICCEEDS Railroads and Engineers Agree to Suhmii their DirTerences to Arbitration. iv International Nw 8rv1cc NEW FORK, April 27. The fonlro-versv fonlro-versv between the (nj-ineers and the manager.-, of fifty eastern railroads', trbich has been tbrenteninc a stnUe for tbe Dafli two weeks, is still in suspension. sus-pension. It was planned that, the railroad rail-road managers' Bub-eonunittee would nave a conference with Commissioner of Labor Neil and Judge Knapp, who have b a aetine a mediators, but a conference of tbe committee held beforehand be-forehand lasted so late that I ho mediation media-tion meeting could not be held It is scheduled now for early Monday morning morn-ing and the conference of Neill, Knapp and lhe engineers will be held aceotd-iug aceotd-iug to schedule la tbe afternoon. The Question of arbitration, it is conceded, has been agreed to ly both sides, but with tiome modifications frnin thp original proposal made to the mediators by the railway manager-?. The cumber of arbitrators and the methods of procedure are matters yet to be decided- AJreadv the cost of the negotiations to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers En-gineers has reached about $10000. It is estimated that the wages of tho fifty-two chairmen of the engineer' railway organizations, -which must be paid by the organisation while on committee com-mittee work, their hotel and traveling expenses while in this city approximates approxi-mates $400 per day. Then Chief Stone receives in salary and expenses about $10,000 annually and hi assistant chiefs about $5000 each, so that the total to-tal expense of the lin.therhood is som(... Ihincr in o.eo-s of SHoOO per week. In the event of arbitration it is Baid an adjustment of the matter tnav take one to three months, so that the organization organiza-tion may have a further outlay of cash of 10.000 to 130,000 before a eettU ment is reached. |