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a THE HOUSTON POST: MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 24,, 1921 Rail Labor Board Shows Wages Paid to R. R. Men Associated Press Report. CHICAGO, Oct. compiled by the United States railroad labor board in its consideration of the wages of railroad employes show that the averdaily rate of pay for grades of work now is $4.54 as compared with an average rate of $2.87 in 1917.

The present rate includes theer wage cut authorIsed lowing July table 1 by is the taken from the labor board's figures, column 1 Showing, the board. This cut averaged about 1212 folpercentage of cut in the July wage decision; column 2, the percentage still remaining over December, 1917, wages; column 3, the average rate of pay per day now, and column 4, the average rate of pay per day in 1917. Supervisory forces 6.3 36.4 $8 01 12, 91 34 Clerical and station 12.2 64.6 18 54 Maintenance of way and 17.4 55.7 3 35 91 15 Shop employes 10.5 54.0 5 47 3 Telegraphers, etc. 8.9 82.8 4 84 2 65. Engine service employes 9.4 59.9 88 Train service 10.7 64.5 5 35 3 32 Stationary engineers and firemen 12.7 02.3 19 18 Signal department 10.0 66.6 5 50 5 3 40 Marine department 9.8 33.3 6 69 02 Present average for all grades of employes $4.54.

Average in 1907 for all grades of employes $2.87. PASSENGER TRAINS RUNNING ON TIME ON I. G. N. LINES bave no idea what will be done," Mr.

said. don't even know why I should be to (Continued from Page One.) lines Sunday night. Further resumption of movement is expected Monday, and officials express confidence that within the next few days congestion will be relieved. The first freight train to run over the lines since the trainmen walked out Saturday at noon arrived in San Antonio from Laredo at 9 o'clock Sunday night. was manned by men recruited by the It railroad.

The switch engines of the local yard were put back into service Sunday noon, operating with running nonunion Monday, brakemen. Others start officials stated Sunday. D. Contrary Frame, to general chairman of the reports circulated Sunday. Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen 01l R.

G. denied that orders had the I. and been received from Chicago for the went men return to work: None of them to Mr. Frame received a telegram from to work Sunday. w.

G. Lee, chief of the trainmen, directing him to come to conference Chicago immediately to attend the terday, He left San Antonio at 9:30 o'clock Sunday night over the Missouri, there. Before leaving, Mr. Frame said be had Kansas and Texas railroad. also' bad telegram from Mr.

Lee also directing that the trainmen remain in quo" until further instructions. He said be interpreted the order to mean that the men should not walk out present, but as it was received here at after the strike had begun, no action was to be taken now. The men will remain out, he said. Ruling from Attorney General DaughDaugherty on the instruction of the United States labor board that the roads remain in their present status until after the conference Wednesday is expected Monday, according to a statement of United States District Attorney John D. Hartman Sunday night, Announcement was made Sunday that the San Antonio.

Uvalde and Gulf railway operating from the International and Great Northern station here is accepting freight from San Antonio to all points along its lines along the Rio Grande. in ineluding Brownsville, Mission and Kingsville. No effect of the strike of trainmen on the G. N. has been felt on this road, it wand stated.

The freight is being accepted at the I. and G. N. station. With its own switch crews it is handling all freight.

loading and unloading as usual. Employing of nonunion men to take the places of the strikers on the I. and G. N. continued Sunday.

Officials here were unable to state how many nonunion men had been employed. In connection with his trip to Chicago. Mr. Frame would not attempt to predict what action would be taken there. He was merely going at the direction of Mr.

Lee, he said. Officials of the I. and G. N. do not expect any of the union men to return to work as a result of the telegram received by Mr.

Frame instructing that the situation remain in status quo, according to a statement last night from J. M. Landis. clerk to the division superintendent at the passenged depot. He is remaining at the office at all hours to keep in constant touch with developments.

Although armed guards are on all trains, there has been no violence of any kind. The strikers have refrained from making any demonstrations and are peaceably awaiting word from national representatives at the labor conference in Chicago as to whether or not to return to work. Few them could be found in the vicinity of the property of the road. Passenger trains are continuing to run on schedule time. No interruption is expected, it was stated.

Palestine Officer Protests Use of Armed Guards Houston Post Special. PALESTINE, Texas, Oct. 200 local brakemen and switchmen of the International and Great Northern Railroad company left their jobs at noon Saturday. Officials of the company and other employes are at present handling passenger trains in place of the men who have quit. A large force of men is hastily constructing a 10-foot substantial material around the passenger depot and premises.

Armed placed on duty by the railroad company are stationed in the local yards. Sheriff Rogers states that be advised Mr. Goforth that the county officials were in a position to keep order and protect property and protested against the bringing in of armed men. He says, however, that be proposed to appoint balf additional number of the deputies that might be required from men desig. by the railroad management, but the plan was rejected and the sheriff wired the governor.

Sheriff Rogers be will disarm the men if authorized to do so. Employes on Small Road Accept Open Shop Houston Post Speeial. CHICAGO, Oct. United States railroad labor board announced Saturday night that it had received word chat the employes on the Tremont and Gulf Railroad company, a 67-mile line in Louisiana, had accepted the open shop and that consequently, as there was no dispute, the board relinquished the jurisdiction it Friday announced it had assumed over the road. FUNERALS PRIVATE FRANK J.

GIBSON. Funeral services for Private Frank J. Gibson, company 38th infantry, who was killed in action in MeuseArgonne battle by machine gun fire. while administering first aid to who had been shot. will be held from Annunciation church Monday at 9 a.

m. under the auspices of Thomas Dismuke post No. 52. American Legion. Rev.

Father George T. Walsh will officiate. Interment will be in Holy Cross cemetery. The Earthman McCarty Unlertaking company be in charge. Private Gibson enlisted at Batson and a short period of training was sent overseas.

He was in the battles of St. Mihiel and Meuse- Argonne. He is survived by his mother. Mrs. J.

V. Gibson: two sisters, Mrs. M. E. Benson of and Mrs.

Fannie Campbell of San Antonio. three brothers, Mar. and Carence Gibson, all of Houston. HI NOCK. Funeral service: for Harry Nock, aged 36 years, who died at his late home, 514 Edgewood street.

Friday at 7 p. were held from the chapel of the Fogle-West Undertaking company Sunday at 10 a. Rev. T. J.

Windham officiated. Burial was in Hollywood cemetery. He is survived by his widow, two daughters. Misses Hazel and Annie Nock and brother, Tom Nock. A band was furnished the musicians' union, of which the defeased was a member and from which the pallbearers were selected.

MICHAEL CASHMAN. M. Stubenrauch. MRS. MABLE RAHM.

Funeral services for Michael Cashman. aged 32 years, who died in a sanitarium in San Angelo Friday night. will be held from Sacred Heart church Monday at 8 m. Rev. M.

J. Crowe will officiate. Pallbearers will be: Honorary--H. Hamilton, Joseph F. Meyer.

B. R. Rieser. R. L.

Autry. J. H. Studdert. D.

Rossi and J. H. Bright. S. Thomas, P.

C. Roemer. E. J. Hussion.

E. 1. Flake, Pat Studdert, J. B. Blazek and The body of Mra.

Mable Rahm. aged 33 years. 2705 Fannin street, wife of Fenton D. Rahm, manager for A. M.

Lockett who died at a local Saturday at 8:30 a. was sent by the Wall Stabe Undertaking combany Sunday night to New Orleans for burial. She is survived by her husband. three sisters. Mrs.

W. D. Troyar, Mrs. A. B.

Clark and Mrs. Pearl Langwith, and one brother. Claude C. Langwith, all of New Orleans. JOHN HARDING.

Funeral services for John Harding, aged 51 years, who died at Galveston Wednesday at 10 p. were held at Fairbanks Sunday at 2:30 p. m. under the auspices of Brunner Lodge No. 745, InOrder of Odd Fellows.

The Westheimer Undertaking company was in charge. He is survived by his widow and two daughters, B. Schobert of Fairbanks and Mrs. Vernon Elliott of Denver, Colo. MRS.

KATHERINE PETERSON. Emegrace Pittman. MRS. E. M.

SMITH. Funeral services for Mrs. Katherine Peterson, aged 77 years, who died at her late home, 5020 Butt street. Friday at 2:30 a. were held from the residence Surday at 2 p.

m. Rev. O. H. H.

Ellis officiated. Burial WAS in Washington cemetery. The Sid Westheimer company in charge. She is urvived by a daughter, Mrs. G.

L. Pittman; grandsons, D. D. Pittman and Fred Miller, and a granddaughter, Miss The body of Mrs. E.

M. Smith, aged 81 years, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Kate Arnim, 3012. Beauchamp street, Saturday at poon, was sent to Beaumont Sunday morning for burial She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Kate Arnim and Mrs.

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KATTLE-KANDY HORTON HORTON HORTON HORTON CHEMICAL DIVISION Phone Preston 1303. RAIL LABOR BOARD BLAMED BY UNIONS FOR STRIKE CRISIS moly panupuoo) ginemen. T. C. Cashen, president of the Switchmen's Union of North America.

the other member of the "Big Five," expected to arrive here Monday and attend future conferences of the chiefs. I. and G. N. Strike Discussed.

The establ.shment of open shop conditions ou the Tremont and Gulf railroad and the strike at boon Saturday of trainthe International and Great Northern railroad were under discussion at Sunday's conference, but none of the chiefs would comment on the situation on those roads. President Lee, however, stated that he had received the reports from his general chairman on International and Great Northern that practically 100 per cent of the trainmen had quit the One of the subordinate leaders, how: ever, said that if it is correctly reported that the men on the Tremont and Gulf railroad have accepted open shop conditions, it is due to the fact that they are few in number and have little hope of their resistance being successful. They intimated that the Tremont and Gulf situation will be brought to the attention of the railroad labor board when it meets inN Chicago Wednesday. Many Are Summoned. It was learned that the chiefs! have received telegrams from a number of the general chairmen of the fire organizations reporting that they bad been cited by the railroad labor board to ap-! pear before that body in Chicago ont Wednesday.

With the 600 general chairmen, the five chief executives of the brotherhoods, their vice presidents and other grand officers, together with the 200 railroad executives, it was said that approximately 1000 officials of the unions and of the railroads have been cited -to appear. President Sheppard of the conductors, commenting Sunday on action of the shop' crafts in voting against joining the strike. said: do not construe their action to be a break with the brotherhoods. They are probably reserving to themselves the right to take action in the matter in their own way and pursuing their own taetics." President Lee of the trainmen Sundar issued a statement, on the "Human side' of the railroad wage question, in part as follows: "The Human Side." "It is to be whether, the public really understands railway wage reduction question. There are more through freight brakemen in the United States than there are in all other! train and yard service employes combined and this class of service and the passenger train employes represent the lowest rates of wages paid.

"A through freight brakeman is paid at present $4.48 for an eight- hour or at the rate of 56 cents an hour. If the proposed wage cut is made effective he will receive 51 cents an hour, or $4.08 a day. Passenger service employes receive 2 cents an hour more than this and local freight and yardmen receive a slightly higher rate. "This means that the bulk of the train service employes receive about $27 a week for a six-day week, and whatever is earned above that amount is through extra service. The service is paid for on a mileage basis but not on an eight basis except for freight runs that are within 100 miles.

Overtime is not paid on a strictly -hour basis except yard service and on runs up to 100 miles. "The low paid train and yard employes have to meet the same high cost of living that the public meets. They are asked only fair service conditions and a fair day's pay. "The railroads do not tell the whole truth of daily paid when they quote higher amounts of wages earned, because they do my they represent time and extra time. "There is an abiding faith in the fairness American people when they understand the truth of the situation, and what has here been said, is the truth and can be proven." CLERKS' DECISION FOLLOWS SPIRITED WALKOUT DEBATE (Continued from Page One.) chairmen of the unions affected, as well AS the presidents, It also began ar-! rangements for a suitable meeting cham- ber.

the board rooms accommodating only 500 persons. The sessions will be open to the public, and a large attendance is expected. Railroad officials Sunday night pressed the belief that the backbone of the proposed strike was broken when a majority of. standard unions which control the railroad employes decided not to strike October 30. Backbone Broken, Is Claim.

Although the strike, if it materializes, would affect all train service men, officials said that service would not be impaired for more. than a day or two and that these men would be quickly replaced. "With all our shopmen and such workers staying on the job, the strike would have little effect." said one rail president. would have had trouble with a eral strike, but we can replace the train service men within short time, eren though they are the most important of the railroad employes. Tropical Storm Center Now in Yucatan Channel Associated Press Report.

WASHINGTON, Oct. center of tropical storm approaching Yucatan channel and continuing to move northward, was reported by the weather bureau. in a bulletin warning issued at 10:30 a. m. Sunday.

The bureau said the storm was' by dangerous gales and winds of burricane force," and that it was dangerous for vessels in the Yucatan channel and southeast Gulf of Mexico. JOHN W. MACE TO ATTEND ARMENIAN WORKERS' COUNCIL National Field Director of Armenian Needs John W. Mace, national field director, Near East relief, will arrive in Houston Tuesday morning to attend the annual conference of relief workers at the First Presbyterian church, telegraphic advices received Sunday night by Mra, Anna Waller, district secretary, stated. Mr.

Mace will deliver a free lecture at the church as he found them during his stay in ArTuesday afternoon, telling of conditions menia. Following closely the decision to stage campaign here for the Armenians came a letter Sunday from Viscount Brice to Charles V. Vickrey, general secretary Near East relief. The missive, copy of which was received by Mrs. Waller, follows in part: "The Armenian people represent the most industrious, intelligent, and genAsia.

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