Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-09-26 | Page 1 | Unions Are in Dispute

DISPUTE I l Four Railroad Brother-hoods Brother-hoods and 14 Others Contend. WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. Dispute baa arisen between the four railroad brotherhoods and the ll other unions i of railroad employes as to representation representa-tion in the industrial conference call by President Wilson for October 6. The president Instructed Director General Hines to have ihe railroad unions represented by four men and Mr. Hines transmitted the instructions instruc-tions to all the unions. The four brotherhoods appointed the four men without regard to the employes. Protest Pro-test soon was forthcoming from the ! -hop maintenance of way, clerk and j other unions that they should be allowed al-lowed to participate 1n the selection of tho representatives, but the question ques-tion has not been settled. The four brotherhoods were said today to-day to have based their action on the fact of the appointment of other dele--' it - to the conference of the American Ameri-can Federation of Labor with which the 14 railroad unions are affiliate.'..