RAILWAY STRIKERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 22, 26 July 1910, Page 7

RAILWAY STRIKERS.

ON THE GRAND TRUNK. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. OTTAWA, 25th July. Efforts are being made to induce the Grand Trunk railway strikers to agree to the reference of the dispute to a Canadian-American board of arbitration. [The Board of Conciliation appointed under the Lemieux Act has thus far (stated the Toronto correspondent of The Times on 17th June) failed to adjust relations between the Grand Trunk and the Canadian Pacific Railway Companies and their workmen. Generally, the Canadian Pacific employees ask for an increase of 23 per cent, m their wages, while the Grand Trunk staff are asking for an advance of 40 per cent., which would bring the wages up to those paid by the former company. For many years the scale of wages on the Grand Trunk line has been lower than on the Canadian Paoific. The Railway Union holds that the time has come when wages upon all railways in the United States and Canada should be standardised. It is understood that the Canadian Pacific Company is ready to give the greater part of the increase demanded, and it is probable that, rather than strike, the men will accept the company's offer. The Grand Trunk authorities, however, feel that they cannot afford the large increase demanded, and suggest a gradual increase to be spread over a series of years until ultimately the wages equal those of the Canadian Pacific]