Show PIECE PIE E WORK VORK IN HARRIMAN SHOPS r L I J I Oregon Short Line Said to Be i Apparently Starting Experiment Experiment Experiment Ex- Ex Here F r k e MEN DONT DON'T KNOW RATES RATES i Find They Are Doing More P g Work for Same Pay as Un Unit it 1 j der Time System M V j j. j New regulations by the Oregon Short 1 T l 3 Line in its 1 local o I car shops are arc said r to be arousing some alarm among the v j ft t t score or so of or men at work there y About bout six weeks ago It is reported the t a Vj employeE were put on piece wor work instead of or being paid pal by tho the hour as heretofore Since that time it is said T the uc pa pay has gra gradually llaU been re reduced uce j i until the they are arc now receiving recel only about f f two thirds s of or what they received when i the work piece system was started The Thc matter wa was It is stated discussed dis dis- f t 2 cussed cussed at a meeting last night whet when oJ j. j t I representatives of or the strikers on the tho Rio Gran Grande e were also present After Jt it D the tile gathering a statement substantially as follows W was S given ghen to the press i Statement of oZ Icu r About bout six sit weeks ago aEO tho company put the men In fri the thc car department of or g the local shops on piece work Tho The men meni i I. I were so Informed but were hot bot told tol Just how bow tho they were to be bo paid paM for Cor each piece of ot work done In that wa way they were left somewhat in the dark Since i that time the pa pay b by tho piece picco has i been gradually re reduced until now af aft after atter at- at t ter summing up what they are given from irom day to day Jay the men find mid that they I arc arc getting for tor a day and one half k what when the w piece work rl system was f. f started they earned in a da day The Tue men still atUl havo have no way of oC learning what they 4 are given ghen for or each piece of or work and tho the conditions under which work is f. f carried on in the local shops is such that the work piece s system stem is Js often an unjust one t. t The men find Ind the they are now getting on the tIle work piece system Just about if 23 much as the they formerly obtained from Crom rein reinI I I l the thc time system But the they have o to 4 work much harder haldor to make it and andt f the amount of or labor performed for the t samo uno wage wags ie is' therefore much greater i Experimenting Here I I The work piece system has been fi i established at no other place on the tho 1 Short Line Lino as yet It seems to tobe tobe be tho the purpose e o of tho the company compan officials 1 in t to carry carryon on a a. system of ot experiments i ff In the local shops and when the they have havo the tho system down own to rock bed here perhaps per per- 1 haps to introduce it in other shops of or 4 the system The Tho men arc are dissatisfied with Uh their present conditions though 7 only obly o In this on one particular and they propose to take it up with their ance ante committee So far as 1115 the tho relations relations rela rela- between the m mn ma n and tho the company com corn pany papy are concerned in respects other e. e they arc vcr very satisfactory The attitude of ot tho the Carmen's union J. J toward the tho Rio Grande Grando strike was c explained ex ex- b by the same informant in this tills way The Thc carmen cannen really could show only the thc one grievance with the Rio Grande I company compan and that was that the shop rules are revocable without notice b by company officials Otherwise there was j- j no change chango In the tho new rules so far as t M the the carmen were concerned because It the Carmen's union has always been a astep step farther down the ladder than the theother f other unions in the shops The new rules were cro simply an attempt on the Ii i part of or the Grande Grando to bring tho the I II unions at work in the locomotive de department do- do I I down to the samo same level as those of or the tho carmen Waiting on the Other r Of course there is the consideration g that if It tho the railroad company were to L fe win In its strike with the tho men in the locomotive loco loco- motive department it would next in all probability attempt to reduce the I 1 1 carmen to a lower level Such a a. con con- al n Is as 13 yet prospective To t i. i act on it would be to engage in a ai 1 i fl f sympathetic tlc strike The carmen will 4 probably not do so unless the unions engaged in the operating department i with the thc also go o out in sympathy V striking machinists boilermakers ers and ande andi i e blacksmiths T The machinists on strike from tho the Bio Grande shops received their first firsti fc i benefits from the union Friday and andI Saturday The rules of or the I t Ji tion pro provide e that the strike benefit JT k shall become c effective after the men t. t have been out two weeks Tho boller- boller t makers will have to wait a week longer longerI I for or theirs and arc nrc expecting it this W week t.- t. i- i Otherwise little change was noted locally in the situation yesterday and antI t though tho the men were expecting word wordE worda 1 a E from fron Denver and New V e York nothing Tyas nas as received from either place o of startling import t t Preparations 1 are arc going ahead ad for the theto to j benefit ball at Kennedys Kennedy's hall hail Tuesday ay t and anil tickets for that and for or the tho matinee ma ma- tinee p performances at t the o Elite theater Thursday and Friday are selling well r Labor hall ball is rented to another or- or 1 l for Sunday Sunda and the the- themen men adjourned yesterday until Monday Mondal |