Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-30
lCHAEvS
|lIKE ENDED
BY CONFEREES
lon and Railway Leaders
Settle Walkout After
Long Session
kEIGHT TIE-UP OVER

<zE CHICAGO, July 80.
H me switchmen's strike was settled today
ter conference lasting several hours
|< M Joint conference Of brotherhoods and
# me railroad managers adjourned at z: 40
IN, announcing the men would resume
@k Immediately.
4ho settlement II was stated on behalf
q the railroads, was on the basis of an
4udication of all questions in dispute save
& ~ OF the closed shop. by a committee
Qmposed OF the railway brotherhoods, out
A84e OF the railway trainmen and the gen.
4M managers. The railroads announced
nat under the settlement the Switchmen
- North America, now employed would re-
4 tAin their positions.
~ The railway brotherhood chiefs went into
oouference at the Great Northern Hotel i'm
8ediately after they left the joint confer
ence and said they might make a statement
OF the $500 switchmen employed in Chi
eago yards, only the $500 belonging to the
Brotherhood Of Railway Trainmen struck
81 About $500 affiliated with the Switch-
mems Union of North America and 1900
nonunion men refused to leave their posts.
The men struck because the railroads
would not allow the Brotherhood of Railway
Irainmen to dictate the appointment of
yardmasters and assistant yardmasters.
Y In the conference were the managers of
the nineteen railroads affected by the
strike; l.. E. Shepherd. acting president,
and w. NJ. Clark. vice president of the
Order of Railway Conductors Assistant
Grand Chiefs II. Z. Wills, l.. c. Grifng
and NJ j. Cadle. and Vice President A. j.
Lowell. of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, and S A. Boone vice president
fof the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Engineers
James Murdoch vice president Of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, who
ordered the strike and led the striking
switchmen, declined to give the terms of
settlement He said he sent committees
TO notify the strikers and that they would
al be at work before o'clock.
The railroad managers issued a supple
mental statement saying the strike had
been settled through the Intervention of
the Brotherhoods of Railway Conductors
Engineers and Firemen, and Enginemen.
The managers said the affiliated brother
hoods ruled that. the Brotherhood of Rail-
way Trainmen was in the wrong in ordering
the strike.
Y The strike was settled approximately fifty
hours after it had been called and in that
time had tied up about so per Cent of the
transcontinental freight traffic of the
United States.
y joint statement issued by the confer
ence committee said:
'aThe men are to be returned to their
positions at once without prejudice or loss
OF seniority.
''The questions at issue were disposed of
~ follows:
meals to be settled by the commission
Of eight at New York.
appointment of yard masters. relnstate-
ments and employment of new men to be
settled by a joint board.
"The rights of all other employees are
sAfeguarded by a clause reading, 1T is
agreed the matters at issue are to be set
tied without the adoption of ciosed-shop
rule. or of any rule that might fairly be
rConsidered equivalent to SUCH"
The conference between the managers and
the trainmen will be resumed tomorrow.