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Show SITUATION AT LOS ANGELES BEFORE TYLER CHICAGO. Aug 23. Hale Holden, regional railroad director of the western west-ern railroads, said today that he had referred the entire situation at Los Angeles to W. T. Tyler, director of the division of railroad operation at Washington, Wash-ington, D. C , for settlement. Mr. Holden declined to discuss the strike and said that any statement on the situation in California would have to come from Mr. Tyler. CLEVELAND, O.. Aug. 23. The chief executives of the four railroad brotherhoods conferred here today over the situation in Los Angeles where more than 1500 Pacific Electric company train engineers and yard men aro reported to have left the service and that employes of other companies in that immediate territory, required to exchange trains with the Pacific Electric, have done likewise. Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and William G Lee. president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, Issued the following signed statement: "Pacific Electric company employes have been refused the right to negotiate nego-tiate through their committees rates Of pay and working conditions similar to those paid to other employes performing per-forming the same service. Pacific Electric is owned and officered by Southern Pacific, but this portion 0 the Southern Pacific (Pacific Electric) is not under government control. "Several months ago employes of Pacific Electric attempted to handle the situation according to the rules ol their organizations whereupon an injunction in-junction was secured by Pacific Electric Elec-tric officials destroying the chief executive's authority to control the situation. "The entire matter has been taken up with the director general of railroads rail-roads and we hope the railroad administration admin-istration will either take over the Pacific Pa-cific Electric or authorize Southern Pacific officers to make satisfactory settlement. "We are not at nil surprised at em ployes of connecting lines sympathlz- I ing with Pacific electric employes, who have been denied the right to negotiate ne-gotiate rates of pay and working conditions con-ditions similar to those in effect on ohter lines for the same class and who have also been enjoined from se Curing the assistance of their grand lodge officers and who are being arrested ar-rested and Jailed because of their attempt at-tempt to better their conditions." . 00 |