Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-12-07 | Page 1 | Labor Chiefs Take up Shorter Hours

LABOR UBO CHIEfS TAKE UP SHORTER SHOHE HOU HOURS S Postpone Consideration of Rail Executives' Executives Plan to Slash Wages rn Br Dr Pr CHICAGO Dec The Thc 7 The problem of reduced wages was l laid id aside today as executives s of the leading railway unions considered plans for shorter working hours The labor chiefs chiefs' who were to to decide dedde de de- de cide this week whether to acc accept pt a 10 0 per cent wage cut t for a year met metIn In n secret sessions sessions' but it was announced an the z subject for discussion I was not the rail executives executives' proposal That problem will be taken up Wednesday in a meeting of 1500 general general gen gen- eral union chairmen the leaders said and until then the principal topic will be stabilization of ot employment em the spreading of work and particularly shorter work days The impending emergency question cast a noticeable shadow over the them m meetIng eting however There was wa some isome indication n unions unions' might look to o congress for at least some help Inthe in the he solution o the the general rail I em m. m Donald R. R g general counsel for tor the railway labor i executives executives' executives executives' tives' tives association called attention t ta to toa toa a resolution tor a joint congressional committee which he said Senator had announced he would in in- trod ce It can be assumed said that the resolution n may have considerable influence upon upon the thc deliberations deliberations de de- de- de liberations of the general chairmen The six hour day had a strong proponent pro pro- in hi President T. T C. C of the switchmen's union It is th the only practical solution for the present pres eat ent t economic conditions which are strangling the railroads he said He predicted that however difficult the transition might seem seem to be now it would be made and would prove to be bea a benefit both tor the men and to the carriers erg said it was unfortunate that on the eve eve of the important meeting of union leaders the Chi Ch cago Northwestern should have declined lt to to arbitrate a wage lion which was ns proposed to the main maintenance of way of-way way time ago aco