Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-06-14 | Page 9 | Rail Employers Face Epic Battle

RAIL EMPLOYERS FACE EPIC BATTLE CHICAGO June 14 UP UP-Mana- UP Mana Managers gers of ot the nations nation's 26 billion dollar railroad plant were plant were poised today foran for foran an epic battle to strike strike nearly nearly from the normal wages Q of f their union Tomorrow is is' the deadline after which negotiations for a new union nion pay scale may be reopened by representatives representatives of management and labor The Association of Railway Executives tives meets here tomorrow prepared to ask for a 22 2 1 per cent reduction in in the basic union wage wage schedule The roads are are now operating under undera a plan whereby 10 per cent of t the normal nominal pay is 15 deducted from each check This agreement was signed a year ago last February ry and extended extend extend- ed last December until next October with a provision that ri negotiations for fora a change could be opened after June 15 r The carriers hard pressed in their bitter battle against forte forCes of depression depres depres- slon sion seek seck a radical change in in the basic scale which would cut another 12 2 2 1 per percent cent from the already greatly great great- ly reduced pay checks of the em em- Managements originally planned to ask a flat 25 per cent reduction This has been modified became it known today to a demand for 22 2 1 per cent