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Phone 157 Roosevelt up lo 5 feet availably raSglt' Basin Implement VPU Company MJwMmPHONE 237 ROOSEVELT 90 For! 10 Against Y l?n rfwfi Railroad workers are represented by 23 standard L LI Li LI Li unions. By mutual agreement, 20 of these unions com- prising about 1,200,000 men, or more than 90 are eTI"" working under wages and rules agreed to by them and I f I !l I the railroads. But leaders of three unions with only ( I ' 3 J about 130,000 men, or less than 10 still refuse, after more than a year of negotiations, to accept similar T",rTL .-v wage and rules agreements. These are even more (J f j M j I 0 f favorable than the terms recommended by the Emer- N HZ 1 l (ri gency Board appointed by the President. J Li U U KJ O O O Yes, it certainly seems to be finally about time that the leaders of the three unions stop their delaying tactics their quibbling. But the leaders of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, and the Order of Railway Conductors continue to refuse. They continue a course of dallying and dallying. It is definitely time to LcuuLU UliuU lyUUwLiJLiUuuuD 8 On June 15, 1950, an Emergency Board principles of the Memorandum Agreement rules changes, which have already been appointed by the President under the of December 21. They have been working agreed to by the Brotherhood of Railroad terms of the Railway Labor Act an Act under this agreement since May 25. Trainmen. Of these, the principal one largely fathered by the unions themselves whai Ahnllt WnM? , seems to be that having to do with so- made its recommendations on certain TT J it n!U ADr"; wages called "interdivisional service" runa waee and working conditions ("rules" in Under the terms of the agreement, yard which take in two or more seniority dis- raikoad language) which had been in dis- engineers, firemen and conductors would tricts. Dute between employes and the railroads. now rejyinS,a wage increase of $.34 ' The union leaders would bar progress , - an hour ($2.72 a day), and road engineers, and efficiency in the industry, and better More Than 90 of Employes Accept firemen and conductors would now be re- service to the public, by maintaining a Since then, terms equal to or better than ceiving an increase of 19)4 cents an hour situation where they can arbitrarily stop the Board recommendations have been ($1.56 per day). Large sums of retroactive a railroad from establishing such inter-accepted inter-accepted by about 1,200,000 railroad em- pay have already accrued and if the agree- divisional runs. The carriers propose that ployes more than 90 of the total of all ment is carried out, will be paid promptly. if a railroad wishes to set up an inter-workers. inter-workers. They are represented by 20 of what About "Cost of Living" Increases? divisional run, the railroad and the unions the 23 standard railroad unions." ' . . . , , should try to agree on such run and the TeTh mPpf The Vte House Agreement mcludes an conditiori whicn shouid 8urroUnd its es- . t. Less Than 10 ReJU9f . mn ac&latT' clause mder wluch wages wdl teblishment, if the railroad and the , But three umons-with about 130 000 be geared to changes m the Government s ctee, the matter will be sub-men, sub-men, or less than 10 of the total have cost-of-kving index. Two such mcreases rnitted to arbitration refused to accept, even after months of -April and July, 1951-haye already been But the three unio leaders etiu refuse negotiations. These three unions are the paid to the 90 of railroad employes cov- Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, ered by signed agreements. Rules Can Be Arbitrated aSSS-SaMrfiSS . What About the 40-Hour Week? The railroads hve not only offered these Conductors. These are three of the so- The White House Agreement calls for the three unions the same rules agreed to by called "operating" unions. Already the establishment of the 40-hour week in prin- the BRT and covered by the White House highest paid men in the industry, their ciple, for employes in yard service. The Agreement, but have even agreed to sub-leaders sub-leaders demand still further advantages employes can have it any time after Jan- mit such rules to arbitration, over other workers. " uary 1, 1952 .provided the manpower sit- The Industry Pattern Is Fixed In all, there are about 270,000 operating uation is such that the railroads can get 1 niry rauern is ea employes But not all of them, by any enough men to perform the work with With the pattern so firmly established in means are represented by BLE, BLF&E, reasonable regularity at straight time the railroad industry, it seems fair to sug- or ORC. As a matter of fact, less than rates. If the parties do not agree on the gest that the leaders of BLE, BLF&E, jjf 000 to be exact are in these question of availability of manpower, the and ORC stop their quibbling and take three unions. More than half about White House Agreement provides arbitra- action, to make the railroad labor picture 140 000 are in other unions principally tionbyarefereeappointedbythePresident. 100 complete. Certainly today's eco- the' Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. what EIse Do the Uni nomic andinternational situation calls for What makes the whole situation so hard W Leaders Demand ? unltal nt" certamiv no good rea- to understand is that these 140,000 op- . ? f , , f son has rn advanc why these three erating employes are working under wages The continued quibbling of the leaders of unions should be preferred over all other and rules which the leaders of the other the three unions has to do principally with railroad employes. 130,000 say they cannot agree to. What Do the Railroads Offer? TrT- They offer these three unions the same ' ? H settlement which was contained in a Mem- fe J3lffi"Tr! tt orandum of Agreement signed at the White T if f, ?IWf&w j V"V""VW Sr'r-.., House on December 21, 1950, by four h mUMl itllH OvyTl'? brotherhoods and the railroads. Later J rfib,yMi J-""I I these brotherhoods' sought to repudiate . , a , , TV8mm''!!K this agreement. But on May 25, 1951, the 11 -a-wwM-v a Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen signed We are publishing this and other advertisements to talk to you a complete agreement carrying out the at first hand about matters which are important to everybody. |