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Show 4SberVabe nmed Disputes Over Contracts and Employment Conditions Condi-tions Will Be Settled. WASHINGTON. April 1. Members of the railroad administration's board of ad- i justment Xo. 1, whirh will pass on disputes dis-putes over contracts and employment conditions con-ditions arising between railroad managements manage-ments and the four leading railway brotherhoods, broth-erhoods, wero n nnounced tonight. The board will meet here next. Monday to organize or-ganize and will proceed immediately to consider a number of pending disputes. The board will consist of four representatives represen-tatives of railway managements and four officers of the brotherhoods, as follows: K. T. Whiter, assistant general manager man-ager of the, Pennsylvania lines west; John G. Walber, secretary of-the bureau of information in-formation of eastern railways; J. V. Hig-gins, Hig-gins, executive secretary of the associa- ' lion of western railways; Dr. C. P. Neill, manager of the information bureau of southeastern railways; J,. K. .Sheppard, vice president of tlie conductors' brother-hnyi; brother-hnyi; P. A. Burgess, assistant chief of ,Cmeers; Albert Phillips, vice president! poi the firemen, and W. N. Doali, vice president of tlie trainmen. The representatives of the managements were appointed by the three regional directors of the railroad administration, and the chief of each brotherhood named his representative. The board's decisions will be final except ex-cept in case of a tie vote, when V. S. Carter, labor director for the railroad administration, ad-ministration, will decide an issue. Wage questions will not be considered directly by the board, although matters of pay are necessarily wrapped up in many dis-qutes dis-qutes over hours or conditions of employment. employ-ment. Director General McAdoo still reserves re-serves the right to fix wages and hours of labor, and the only questions to reach tlie hoard will be on disputes which can not be settled between the labor organization's organiza-tion's chief and the general manager of a railroad. Similar boards probably will be created later for other branches of railway employees. |