The Irish standard., 1910-03-19
GOOD OFFICES OF FEDERAL OFF,
GALS ACCEPTED BY
BOTH SIDES.
TO DECIDE WHAT is ARBlTRABLP.
Knapp and O'NeiIl Leave Washington
for Chicago.-RaiIroadM Managers s
Think All Prospect of Walk.
out Is Past.

Chicago, March 16.-Danger OF an
Immediate strike of $4,000 locomotive
firemen, the throwing out of employ
ment of more than $4,000 other en-
ployes and the temporary suspension
of business on practically every rail-
road system between Chicago and the
Pacific coast was averted through the
acceptance of offers of mediation from
the federal authorities at Washington.
At the request of the general manag-
ers of the At roads involved, Chair.
man Martin A. Knapp, of the inter.
state commerce commission and Com.
missioner of Labor G. P. Neill tele.
graphed an offer of federal mediation
to the union officials. This offer was
accepted, President Carter STIMULATING,
however, that action must begin with.
out delay.
1t is stipulated that the mediators
will come to Chicago. According to
Mr.. Carter their function will be. not
to arbitrate the matters in dispute,
but to determine what shall be arbi.
trated. The questions involved wages,
which both sides have agreed upon as
arbitrable, and two other technical
points, involving promotion and repre-.
sentation in the union, which the
brotherhood contends are, but which
the railroads assert are not arbitrable.
A letter was sent to the General
Managers association as follows:
wv G. Nixon, Chairman Of the Man.
ayers Committee:
Dear Sir: Your letter of March is
has been received, in which it com.
munlcates the Information that the
managers committee has invoked the
aid of the Erdman act, and that the
honorable chairman of the interstate
commerce and the honorable u. S.
commissioner of labor have been re.
quested by the managers committee
to tender their good officers.
This is to advise the managers
committee that the federal officials
friendly Offices in an endeavor to set.
tie through mediation the pending
controversy.
"The proposition Of our committee
that matters In controversy be submit
ted to arbitration is evidence of the
regard that we have for the interests
of tho public, and after giving the mat
ter further consideration our commit.
tee instructs me to notify the manag.
ers' committee that it has accepted
tho good Offices of the chairman of the
Interstate commerce commission in
an effort to reach an amicable adjust
mcnt Of matters in dispute, provided
that such mediation shall be conduct
ed in the city of Chicago and without
delay.
Our committee again insists tina,
aside from the interests Of the public
there are no other parties concerned
in this dispute except the railways
represented by the managers commit
toe and the employees represented BY
our committee.
by order of the committee.
("Signed w. S. CARTER,
In statement the general manag
ers said:
"All prospects of strike are over
There will be none. Settlement o.
the whole controversy by mediation
and arbitration is assured"
No Change in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, March 16.-"The con
ference with George II. Earle has no,
resulted in any plan or suggestion fol
the settlement Of the car mems strik,
and negotiations are therefore to bs
considered ended" was the officia-
statement issued by the general strike
committee of ten.
President e. e. Greenwalt, of tn,
State Federation of Labor issued
call to labor unions in all parts of tn
state to take a general strike vote ant
hold themselves in readiness to re
spOnd to call for statewide sym
pathetic strike, which was authorize,
at the recent convention of the Stat
Federation Of Labor held in New
Castle, Pa.
There was no change in the genera
strike situation. The textile distric
remains practically tied and the worl
ers in this district we're joined by 40
grocery clerks, most of whom wer
employed in the syndicate stores /,
that locality. The Rapid Transit CON
pany maintains that their service !
growing better day by day. Their
we're number of accidents, howeve.
In which, in one an unidentified We
man was struck by street car an