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Show NEW UNIONS ON SIXTEEN ROADS Union and Southern 'Pacific Among Lines Signing With Employes CHICAGO. Oct. 14 The I'nlon Pa-j Pa-j clflc and the Southern Pacific ure included in-cluded among tho 16 roads which have completed agreements with new organizations of their shopmen by which. In effect, tho men Waive the right to strike and the companion pledged themseies not to litigate both parties agreeing to abide by tb decisions of the railroad labor board. Notice of the completion of the agr,-- ment has been filed with the labor board. The mileage represented by the 16 roads. Including such large systems as the New York, New Haven & Hartford. Ihlgh Valley, Central of Georgia. Chicago. Burlington & Qulncy, Southern Pacific and I'nlon Pacific, aggregates SS,956. Numerous other are negotiating associations with their employes. WITHOUT Ri:coc.xmov. With i he organization of company I unions on the 16 roads, the federate railway shopcrafts. whoso official name is the Railway Employes' do-1 partment of the American Federation J of Labor, which directed the nationwide nation-wide Shopmen's strike which staiVd July 1. are without recognition or nep. fSSSntatlen as far as the 16 roads arc-concerned. arc-concerned. Tim Pennsylvania railroad. tho largest of all roads which have mau rn tments with new organizations of employes. Is not included In the list, that system having begun such negotiations nego-tiations before the strike There are 601 class one railroads) if a totil mileage of 256.000. of which' the federated ehop crafts have an-' nounced approximately 90 railroad companies. (Including several brbiK? und terminal switching companies), with a mileage of 65.000, have settled set-tled the ahopcrafts' strike on the basis ba-sis of the WarfieM-Wuiard-JewHl ncrretnent ratified by the shopcrafts a month mro by which a number of, the larpe eastern and western roas took bark their striking employes OTHJC RRO ik kOITNG. Excluding the roads which have made agreements with the federut-'d shopcraft workers, the 16 which have settled with their own men and the Pennsylvania, there remains a mile, age of approximately 120,000. for vvhl. h the ros9a are understood to be negotiating with their employes. The 10 roads which have aignej arrtiemts with new organizations of the employes are. Southern Pacific (Pacific system); i Missouri, K.msu &. Texas. Southern Pacific Texas and Louisiana lines; I Nashville, Chattanooga ft St. Louis-Central Louis-Central of Georgia. New York. New' Haven Hartford; Chicago. Burllng- .n .'. i'j iim-v "Vnrii.l . A Southern f.ret Northern. Lehigh Valley: In i ternatlonal ft Great Northern. Union Pacific; Illinois Central; Florida K.it Coast Trinity ft Brazos Valley ; B I San Antonio. Uvallde ft Gulf. oo |