New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-22
Company Agrees to
Reinstate ID Dis
charged Men.
UNION GIVES IN
ON ORGANIZATION
Arbitration Expected to
Follow To-day's Confer
ences on Wages.

The threat of a renewal of the strike
by employees of the New York Rail
ways Company ended yesterday after
noon when Mayor Mitchell obtained an
agreement from the company to rein
state the fourteen men who had been
refused unemployment because they had
been convicted of misdemeanors during
the recent strike.
By the terms of the agreement the
cases Of thirty-four men since dis
missed by the company on various
charges will be arbitrated. The mat
ter of the company interfering with the
organization of its employees by the
formation Of an "all in the family
association was not pressed by the
union leaders, who waived this point
as not important after the Mayor had
obtained from Theodore P. Shonts,
president of the company, Frank He'd
ley, general manager. and James l..
Quackenbush, general counsel, an
agreement to accept the Mayors inter
probation of the Unemployment clause.
The Mayor held with the union that II
meant all men who struck should get
their places back.
In consequence Of this agreement a
committee of the union and Mr.. Hedley
will take up to-day the question OF
wages and working conditions, which
was to have been considered Saturday
under the terms of the peace treaty
but which went over pending settle
ment of the more urgent question.
Arbitration Expected.
1t is expected the conferences on
wages and working conditions will re-
quire several days, and the net result
looked for is the reference OF the mat
ter to arbitrators, the most optimistic
of the union men not looking for an
earlv agreement on all points. No diff
ficuity can be experienced IN selecting
arbitrators. for should the men selected
bv the company and the union fail to
select a third man, he will be named
under the terms of the original settle
ment, by Oscar S. Straus, chairman of
the Public Service Commission.
To obtain a settlement, Mr.. Mitchell
who arrived in the city early yester-
day from Plattsburg, spent the greater
part of the day in conferences, the
first with William B. Fitzgerald and
Louis Fridiger, representing the Anal
gamated Association Of Street Railway
Employees, and Hugh Frayne, represent
ing the American Federation OF Labor,
beginning at 10:30 o'clock. This was
over in less than an hour. the union
committee returning to its quarters IN
the Hotel Continental satisfied the
Mayor was inclined to agree with them.
They had told the Mayor, they said,
that they would under no circumstances
agree to arbitrate the question OF the
fourteen men who were refused reem,
ployment. After they left the City hall
Mr.. Mitchell told reporters he thought
a strike would be averted and he would
be on his way back to Plattsburg be-
fore nighttal.
Mayor Hears Both Sides.
az have obtained a complete state
ment of the mems position" he said
at is a simple case of living up to
contractual obligations"
Messrs. Shonts, Hedley and Quack-
enbush arrived at the Mayors Office
soon after o'clock. This conference
lasted more than two hours and con-
listed largely OF an argument by
Sir. Hedley as to why the men should
not be reinstated and discussion be-
tween the Mayor and Mr.. Quackenbush
as 20 the law.
The agreement is pretty plain Eng
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