Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-13 | Page 10 | S. P. Takes up Montello Case

i P, TAKES UP imp CASE Sproulc Replies to Ogden Merchants Signing Petition of R. R. Men's Wives A statement of the position of the Southern Pacific company regarding the potltlons directed ngninst the recent re-cent change In tho method of assigning assign-ing through freight train crews In tho district between Ogden and Carl In. Nov., has been sent by President William Wil-liam Sproulc to some seventy Og1en business men who signed the petition. peti-tion. A similar petition was also sent to Governor Bamberger. The wives of four engineers particularly protested because 1H children, many of Junior high school age. would bo compelled to make their residence at Montello where housing and educational educa-tional advantages were said to be lacking. "The company, as a matter of good feeling, would prefer not to disturb the residence and comfort of those affected af-fected bv the chahgs proposed." President Pres-ident Sproulc writes. "The-ahangc Is not mad.? at the instance of the company, com-pany, but, is an ' arrangement within the brotherhood, the majority of whom It, and that desire lias been confirmed by the government tribunal charged with the adjustment of such matters." Prior to 1017. freight train crews operated as now between Ogden and Montello on the one hand, and between be-tween Montello and Carlin on the other. At that time, on request of the general committee of the Broth-bfhood Broth-bfhood of Locomotive Engineers, the two runs worn combined, making a through run over the 2-1 S miles between be-tween Ogden and Carlin. with layover lay-over at Montello, the half way point. Within two months, the same committee, com-mittee, requested a return of the old arrangement, and when the agreement between the company and the broth -1 crhood was rewritten in October. 101$. the desires of the brotherhoods were again complied with and the freight districts split at Montello, but when written protests were made by the families of Junior engineers, the proposer! pro-poser! split at Montello was postponed , jintil it could be voted upon by the men concerned. The majority decided j for the split district and this was sus- rained by the federal board of rail - i Way wages and working conditions of the railroad 'administration. ; oo