Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-03-18
TRUCE DECLARED
IN R. R. STRIKE
GOOD OFFICES or FEDERAL Off.
GALS ACCEPTED ~
BOTH SIDES.
70 DECIDE WHAT is ARBlTRABLE
Knapp and o'heill Leave Washington
for chicaso.-RaiIroad Managers
Think All Prospect Of Walk.
out 10 Past.

Think All Prospect OF walk
out 10 Past.
Chicago, March 16.-Danger OF an
immediate strike of $4,000 locomotive
firemen, the throwing out of employ
ment of more than 125,000 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 Al roads involved, Chair.
man Martin A. Knapp, Of the inter
state commerce commission and Com
missioner Of Labor G. p. Neill tele-
xraphed an offer of federal mediation
to the union ohicials. This offer was
accepted, President Carter stimulating.
however. that action must begin with
out delay.
It is stipulated that the medtatOrs
will come to Chicago. According 70
Mr.. Carter their function will be, not
to arbitrate the matters in dispute.
but to determine what shall be arbd-
trated. The questions involved wages.
which both sides have agreed upon ~
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:
.W. C. Nixon, Chairman Of the Man
ayers Committee:
Dear Sir: Your letter Of March Is
has been received, in which 1t com.
munfcates 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-
auested by the managers committee
to tender their good officers.
"This is to advise the managers
committee that the federal officials
named have rendered by wire their
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 the public. and after giving the mat
&a, EFrrxhor cOuojd orofior o,,r cnu,m -
tee instructs me to notify the manag-
ers' committee that it has accepted
the, good Offices of the chairman Of the
Interstate commerce commission in
an effort to reach an amicable adjust
ment Of matters In dispute, provided
that such mediation shall be conduct
ed in the city of Chicago and without
delay.
Our committee again insists that
aside from the interests of the public
there are no other parties concerned
in this dispute except the railways
represented by the managers commit
tee and the employees represented by
our committee.
"By order of the committee.
("signed) w. s. CARTER.
n D statement the general manag.
ers said:
"All prospects Of strike are over.
There will be none. settlement Of
the whole controversy by mediation
and arbitration is assured"
No Change In Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, March 16.-"The con.
ference with George H. Earle has not
resulted in any plan or suggestion for
the settlement of the car mems strike
and negotiations are therefore to be
considered ended was the omcial
statement issued by the general strike
committee Of ten.
President E. e. Greenwalt, of the
State Federation Of Labor issued q
call to laboI nnions in all parts of the
state to takenEeneral strike vote and
hold themselves in readiness to re-
spond to Q call for statewide sym
pathetic strike, which was authorized
1t the recent convention Of the State
Federation Of Labor held in New
Castle, Pa.
1ueTe Was no cHdHSe IN Tue general
strike situation. The textile district |
remains practically tied and the work
ers In this district were Joined by 400
grocery clerks, most of whom were
employed in the syndicate stores sin
that locality. The Rapid Transit com.
pany maintains that their service is
growing better day by day. There
were number of accidents, however,
in which, in one an unidentified wo-
man was struck by street car and
killed