Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-03 | Page 1 | Rail Employes to Give Views next Monday

' RAIL EMPLOYES TO GIVE VIEWS I NEXTJONOAY 'Jewel! to RefDly to Atterbury Request for Abrogation of Rules CLAIM MADE ROADS DON'T EARN EXPENSES Difficulties of Short Lines Declared Piling Up Under National Agreements i .' 1 1 V ' ! . Feb. 3. I'i esonl.it ion oil the railroad employes' view of the' companies' plea tor immediate abrogation abroga-tion of the national . agreements was, deferred whn the federal railroad la-! bor bonrd mt today. It harl been announced an-nounced that it M. Jewell, acing preai-j dent of the railway employes' department depart-ment of the American Federation of Labor, w ould reply this morning to the I statement made Monday by General W. . Atterbury on behalf Of the -Vs jsoclatlon of Railway Executives. But . the board was not prepared to hear Mr. Jewell and Instead set 10 a. m. I Monday for his statement. ST i t Ml T RE l I E. T. Whiter, who has been pre-1 'sentlng the railroads' case against ihe .present working rules, read Into the record a statement i General Atterbury Atter-bury supplementing that made by the 'latter Monday. In It was a declara- I tK.n that a recent canvass of railroads (had supported Henerul Atteihui y's assertion as-sertion tlmt "many railroads have no. prospect of earning bare operating ex-! penseg under present conditions." i The new Atterbury statement quoted ' fT. Le Witt Cu'yler, president of the: i Association of Railway Bxecutlves, as! I authority for the canvass, and said: U I LRMN'G l Al'l sl 6 "The canvass shows that thlrty-slx i railroads estimate that they failed lof learn even their operating expenses! for the month of January. While earning their operating ex-Ipenses ex-Ipenses twenty-eight additional roads j estimate Chat they did not earn their j jta.es and fix.-. r harges In Januari, BMP! n BS l Mi) OF' "Under present traffic and operating operat-ing conditions these were the results 'despite the fact that 'the sixty-Tour I .companies referred to have in the ag-' Lgregate decrease) (iielr labor cost of operntlon b.1 laying off approximatejy i 200,000 employes since September 1,1 I The statement said that the diffl-j rulties of the short line roads worcl liliing Uj under the national agree-! inents and argued that this only "goes j to illustrate that It Is economically un-Bound un-Bound and fraught with disaster," to compel all roads to meet Identical .wage and working Conditions. OO