The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-28
Representatives Gong HONS
Garry Orders for Guidance
In Event Strike Is Called
PRESIDENT WILSON HAS n
CONFERENCE AT WHITE I
HOUSE WITH .VEWLANDS|
Preparing Appeal to Congress
for Legi' lation Relieving
Situation Railway Execus
tives Meet resident Today
Looks Like Strike

Washington, Aug. 21.-Prcsi- Il
dent Wilson'S efforts to bring
about peace between the rail- Ii.
roads and their employees seemed N
TO be confronted with failure ut . a
late hour tonight.
Early In the day the $40 repro
sentatives OF the four brothers
hoods decided to leave further n
negotiations in Washington to u Ri
special committee o. twenty four. III
Tho remainder of the men were 81
ordered to return 10 their home
districts. Each carried with him
final instructions III even: of
strike.
This in itself was convincing that =
crisis was imminent. and the gravfty
of the situation was further er9-
phas.zed when late tonight prcsideHA
Samuel Rea, of the Pennsylvan,ss
made statement which was cons
strued as meaning the railroad MAJ
afsers Tden,ed a strike fisevftabfe.
President Wilson. alarmed overs4
failure of hi. efforts summoned Chnlf
man Newiands OF tho Senate fnteF%
state Commerce Committee and see@|
rotary OF the Interior Lane 70 tho
White House, and renewed his request
for legislation he desires passed IN
this session of Congress
Probable Legislation M
1t can he stated aIthoritatively thai
the following measures were considers
ed:
I. The passage OF n bill cstab-
fishing the eight hour day as
basis for hours of tabor ON rail-.
roads.
>. An amendment to the Inter s
Gs..f. xtssx
the Interstate Commerce Com
mission to take tho question OF
wages into consideration In adj II
justing rates. tScnator News
lands holds that the conimission i
already h1s that authority. Tic q
existing commission has ruicsl to M
tho contrary. vs.
;. An amendment to tho mc.Iia- 4
ton act making coinbina' lows TO S
bring about strikes or loeko'ns
affecting interstate commerce un- Fs
lawful until general co-imis- ~
sion. tn be provided for in tho bill
has Investigated AMI reported on
the merits of tho ,lisputc. THIS
act tn he patterned after the
Canada law, which has proved
sue cS-rul.
Senator Newlands promised tbs
President before leaving the White
House he would canvass the situatioES
with his colleagues in the senate to-
morrow and report back at the earlin~Ai
possible hour. He is UNDERSTOOD l..
have given IL as his o,inior that tho
lie gislation can be passed at this seS~
sion
Receive Sailcd Instructions.
The railway executives have an ap-i
pointment at the White House to-.
morrow at 10 O'Clock. %
Tonight neither side was certatnH
that the engagement could be kept.
The chairmen OF the railway
brotherhoods met in the Biou Theatcfi
and after resolving to go home were
handed the sealed instructions.
The subcommittee of twenty four
was appointed with full powers to Ell
feet settlement II possible. The CONF
mittee was specifically instructed that.
1t had no power to accept terms OF
settlement thai provide for arbtra-.
ton OF the question Of an ht-houF.
day with ten hours pay
A. r. Garretson. w. q Lee, ". g.
Stone and w. l.. Carter the chiefs Of
the -four hrotherhoods, are memherS
Of the committee 81
hmm ediately after the meattag tho
chairren not selected to serve on thu
committee packd up and left town.
+ Railway Heads Stubborn.
The railway executives still demand
arbitration. President Rea, OF the
system. issued a states
ment pointing out the main reason
why they are insisting. He said:
1.-THE heads OF tho railways have
been forced to the conclusion n
that It Is better to face the alter
native of strike than to sur. 81
render"
President Wilson has kept himself
fully informed of the attitude Of the.
Notwithstanding tha6
formal conference have been suspend.33
ed for forty-eight hours. He Ia underss
stood to have told Senator Newland4
he did not expect any further materiAH
from either side. He sat4s
he feared the controversy had reaches
a stage where q just solution 49,
impossible without the aid Of Congress
and the legislation he has suggeste4s&
The day waa marked by . series ~
informal conferences. In the moe1
ing Secretary Lane met several OF t&[