Bisbee daily review., 1916-08-30
PREPARE
 FOR IMMENSE STRIKE
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themselves for strike. Orders mol to accept perishable freights for ship ments already have been issued by i many lines, notices were issued tc prospective passengers that unless they could complete their journeys before o'clock Monday morning they would risk delays.
 Many of the railway presidents left | for their headquarters announcing they considered it necessary to be near their properties. The managers conference committee, which has full authority to deal with the workmen remained here. Brotherhood com mitteemen, who had not already de parted, announced their intention of | being in their home districts Monday. Only Presidents Garretson, Stone Car ter and Lee, heads of the conductors. engineers, firemen and trainmen, re- spectively, remained here They an nounced their intention of directing the strike from Washington.
 Both sides issued what appeared to be their last statements to the public in justification of their acts.
 The railway presidents sumarized the important points developed by their deliberations as follows:
 "A renewed insistence on the
 principle of arbitration as the only
 proper method of settling labor
 disputes. The railways have giv-
 en the employees every possible
 consideration in this respect by
 offering to arbitrate their differ
 ences either through the inter-
 state commerce commission. un-
 der the Newlands act. or by a
 commission to be selected by the
 President of the United States.
 An increased realization Of the re- accessibility of the railroads towards their other employees, the shippers. the industrial, commercial and gener- al public. which they have been madc to feel by thousands of telegrams in sisting upon the maintenance of their position
 The brotherhoods expressed their unalterable opposition to President Wilson's plan. to compel public inves- tisation in a statement signed by Garretson, Stone, Carter and Lee. which said:
 Since the abolition of slavery no more effectUal means has been de vised for insuring the bondage of the working man than the passage of the compulsory investigation acts Of the character of the Canadian industrial disputes act"
 The issuance of these two state ments was the formal announcement of the final positions of two great forces
 The days developments fairly tum- bled over one another. President Will son having heard that the strike had been definitely set for next Lator Day and anticipating that the broth erhoods heads would reject the latest proposal of the railway presidents, worked practically all night on his address to congress.
 At ten o'clock in the morning the railroad presidents asked for an au- dience at the White House and the President received them. Secretary Tumulty meanwhile delivered to the brotherhood heads the latest proposal permitting the interstate commerce commission to impOund the pay the men would receive if they won their demands and let the men decide at the end of the investigation whether to strike or arbitrate. It was prompt ly refused by the leaders.
 The railroad presidents then TO- verted to the position they assumed at the outset of the negotiations
 President Wilson, realizing that their latest proposal would not be ac- cepted by the workers, told the rail way executives he was sorry it had been presented and Bade them good bye, saying:
 God help you, l cannot
 The brotherhood heads having knowledge of the Presidents propos- al for compulsory investigation, an nounced their intention to fight it in congress if possible 10 get separate votes on that and the eigh' hour day