Show Rail Board Permits Permits Permits' I I Parley on Piece Work CHICAGO Oct 14 By the Associated Associated Asso Asso- elated Press The Press The United States railroad labor board today authorized the railroads to open negotiations with the unions for the restoration of piecework piecework piecework piece piece- work barred by rule 1 of the shop- shop craf crafts ts national agreement entered into under the late railroad The board today handed down a supplemental decision amending sevI seventeen seventeen sev sev- enteen more rules of ot the I agreement All these rules dealt with minor and technical shop practices I As amended the rule No 1 reads I Eight hours shall constitute a n. days day's work All es coming under the provisions of this agreement except as aR otherwise provided in this schedule of rules or as may hereafter be legally established between the carrier and the shall be le paid on the hourly basis This rule is Intended to remove the inhibition against piece work contained contained con con- tamed in rule 1 of ot the national national national na na- na- na agreement and to permit the question to be taken up for negotiation negotiation negotiation tion on any individual railroad in the manner P prescribed by the transportation tion act Confronted by a a. possible railroad strike over wage and In Insistent Insistent insistent In- In demands from shippers for lower freight rate ralee railway executives met here hero today and declared that transportation charges would be de decreased decreased decreased de- de creased In proportion to future wage reductions The railway raiva executives declined l to indicate what definite steps were under discussion lor br proposing further wage which under their plan would be necessary before shippers could expect freight reductions The July wage wage reduction of ot 12 p per percent percent r cent ordered by the railroad labor board hoard the executives declared d merely staved off bankruptcy for many roads The strike vote of the brotherhoods and shop crafts resulting from this wage cut It was declared by the ex- ex was but a move to ward off ary further wage reductions ns Some I of ot the union leaders admitted that the theote vote ote did not mean a general walkout I of ot the railroad although It 11 was reported that October 30 had been tentatively agreed upon by the union heads head for sectional strikes of the em em- if strikes were finally decided lion vion |