Show I RAil RAILWAYS W A SPLIT ON lABOR BOARD Majority Favors Favor Watson- Watson Parker Bill Minority Declares It a Handicap NEW YORK YORI March 18 CAP CAP- AP The Association of Railway Executives Executives tives was divided into two camps today th the majority favoring the Watson-Parker Watson railroad bill the minority opposed to It unless amended Nineteen railroad representatives led by L. L F. F Loree president of ot the Delaware Hudson railroad ob objected objected objected ob- ob to the bill at an all day meetIng meetIng meet- meet Ing lag yesterday which ended In up up- up roar This minority adopted a resolution notifying the secretary that they repudiated the action of the associations association's labor committee This committee Headed by AV W. W. W Atterbury y president of the Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania railroad ad and a committee of oC railway workers drew up the bill which already alread has been passed by the house of ot representatives and recommended to the senate It would abolish the railroad labor board and substitute an arbitration U n board of labor and employers to settle wage wag disputes The op open opa n split came only after fter ftera ter tera a effort by the minority to Insert a a. a provision that the Interstate interstate interstate Inter inter- state commerce commission b be beem empowered em em- powered to set aside any ny w wage ge agreement which might a affect tec rates rates- y v Mr Loree charged that th the bill leaves the railroads at the mercy of ot and gives the public no protection Mr 11 Atterbury d dIed denied J d this calling it the Locarno of railroading Among the railroads that opposed the bill were the St. St Louis San Francisco Pere Marquette Wabash Texas Kansas St. St Louis Southwestern and Rock Island |