Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-06-26 | Page 1 | Firemen Ask for More Money

'FIREMEN ASK FOR MORE MONEY HEAVY TRAINS HAVE GREATLY INCREASED THEIR WORK. Conference Now on in Salt Lake City Promises to Adjust All Differences Differ-ences of Railroad Men. Superintendent E. C. Manson and other officials of the Salt Lake division divis-ion are devoting a good deal of time at present to conferences with representatives repre-sentatives of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Lo-comotive Firemen regarding changes In pay schedules asked for by firemen fire-men on the Salt Lake division. It is understood these demands are occasioned oc-casioned by heavy fi eight trains on districts between Ogden and Sparks, but no details are given out at pros-rnt pros-rnt as to the exact nature of tho schedules asked for by t..e muscular boys who shovel coal and mako Me a m ami motive power to success-fulh success-fulh handle trains of from fifty to eighty, ninety and even one hundred IxclcJit-cars. , Following a state law enacted in Nevada last winter, a third brakeman Is added to all freight crews where more than fifty cars comprise one train, but no provision ' was made by the Sagebrush solons for extra men with the engine crows on these ponderously pon-derously heaw trains. As a result, there is a vigorous protest from the firemen who are compelled to "throw ' more fuel than ever before, with no increase in the mileage jfay. .The conference is bring held in Salt Lake and hap been on for the past week or ten days with, a pios-pect pios-pect of an early adjustment of the trouble.