Ogden Daily Standard | 1913-07-29 | Page 1 | Federal Board of Mediation Has No Little Job in Trying to Keep Peace between Men and Railroads

FEDERAL BOARD OF MEDIATION HAS NO LITTLE JOB IN TRYING TO KEEP PEACE BETWEEN MEN AND RAILROADS G. W. Hanger, Judge William Lea Chambers and Judge Martin A. Knapp, New York, July 29. (Special.) . The conference committee of railroad managers is holding its meetings with niemhers of the board of mediation and conciliation who arc Tying to ar-nitrate ar-nitrate in the dispute between the i eastern railroads and their trainmen and COndUl tors The members of this ho.ird. Judge William L. Chambers. ! Martin A Knapp and G W Hanger, ; dei ided to hear first the petition ol the railroads and later to receive the representatives of the employes. W (J Lee. president of the Hrother- i hood of Railroad Trainmen, and A 1 1 GarretBoA, head of the Order of Kail-way Kail-way Conductors, waited at their bead quarters In a downtown bote) The) expected an opportunity to appear be fore the federal board as soon as the j commissioners finished their confer-, ences with the railroad manauers. The (ask the board facos is thai ot getting the parties to the con I ro e r.- to auree upon steps for arbitration under the board's auspices. The hitch in the situation came with the eleventh hour proposal of the rail road managers' conference commit tee that grievances which the railroad companies had should be submitted to arbitration at the same time as the employes' demands are considered The union leaders protest against the injection of the railroad companies compa-nies grievances in this sudden and unexpected un-expected manner.