Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-12-16 | Page 2 | Railroads Invoke the Erdman Act

RAILROADS INVOKE TH2 ERDMAN ACT CHICAGO, Dec. 15. The Erdman act was invoked today by sixty-one western railroads as a means of avoiding avoid-ing a strike threatened by the engineers engi-neers to enforce their demands for higher wages. A formal appeal was uddressed to United States Commissioner of Labor La-bor Neill and to Chairman Knapp of the Interstate Commerce commission 1j act as mediators to try to effect a satisfactory settlement. The refusal of the engineers to meet the advances of the railroad managers' commission and to agree on arbitration is given bv the railroads rail-roads as the reason for their action The demand of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers is for an increase in-crease of approximately 17 per cent Results of tho strike vo:o over the pi offered 9 per cent increase were announced an-nounced Monday by President Warren War-ren S. Stone. The." men declared In favor of holding out by a vote of 97 5 per cent,' " rir-