Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-08 | Page 2 | Roads Opposed to Labor Board

IDS TO LHBOR BfURD Individual Parleys With Their Employes Favored by Executives NEW YORK. Jan. s Adjustment of differences between the country's railroads nn.1 their la'.ior is i problem that can be taken up more satisfactorily satisfac-torily hy Individual railroads and their employes than by tho United States labor board.' t This was thd decision of executives Of approximately one nundr.-il r.ul-roads. r.ul-roads. meeting here Friday. Pacsago of a bill prpvtdlng thai the secretary of the treasury make partial payments to the roads In settli ment of the governor's guarantees hy the present congress was urged. These settlements, it was said, involve abom J400.000.000. Appointment of an auditing staff to report on the business of the American Ameri-can Railway Express company vv:us another decision of tlio executives. This move, it was sjdd was to enable fever : abroad handling express to share equitably in the business. The dispute over ralance settlo-ments settlo-ments between AmerP in and Canadian Cana-dian roads, resulting f om difference in exchange, was refet -ed to the railroad rail-road accounting offlc- rs' association, which will take up tl! 1 problem with a similar organization I l Canada. The amount Is bald to run . tuo millions of dollars. Involving ca hire, daily charges, traffic balances and division of through rates Thomas de Witt Cuyler chairman of tho Association of Railway Executives, Execu-tives, was presented with an old English Eng-lish silver salver in recognition of his services to the roads.