The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-18
WILSON WINS;
s TR|kE SAID
IA Be AVERTED
Brotherhoods Leader Says
Men Have Won Com
plete Victory
COURT MAY GIVE
DECISION MONDAY
Walkouts In Places That
Could Not Be Reached
In Time
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

D %1oSOSl&A ED PRESS.
Washington, March 17.-There is
an increasing hope in the capital to-
night that the threatened railroad
strike, postponed two days, through
the presidents mediation, will be
averted altogether. The president said
he was hopeful of an agreement
which would relieve him from taking
drastic steps to prevent crippling the
resources in the face of an
crisis.
Whether the supreme court, on
whose course future moves in the con-
troversy may hinge, will deliver an
opinion on the Adamson law Monday,
is a matter of speculation.
While no further move is contem-
plated until the New York confer
ences are concluded, the impression
prevailed that should the tie-up &C
tually be threatened, the president
will find a way to bring the force of
the federal government to relieve it.
ScGAG 3A1y N2OuOdE.
New York, March 17.-Inaugura-
ton of the great railroad strike to
have begun at seven o'clock tonight,
has been averted forty-eight hours
by truce effected by the presidents
The mediators will con-
tinue tomorrow their efforts to in
duce both sides to reach an agree
ment. Except for a postponement
of the strike, the situation is I'M
changed, declared Chief Stone, of the
engineers. The agreement reached
today, it is learned, provides for the
of the provisions of the
Adamson law provided the supreme
court hand down a decision Monday
its constitutionality. The
meeting tomorrow will seek to reach
an agreement on the eight con-
troversy, provided the law is not up
held. Meanwhile, the embargo orders
by the railroads stand.
An official of the brotherhoods
who does not permit the use of his
name, made the flat declaration to-
night that there would be no strike
and the brotherhoods had won a com
plete victory.
Lees assertion that he believed ar
anaicable settlement of all differences
will be reached Monday, is taken tc
mean efforts of the presidents med
iators have not only been successful,
in hating the strike tonight, but
that with a resumption of confer
ences, the whole situation will prob.
ably be cleared and the country as.
sured of normal transportation condi-
tons.
Lees statement came after he wa:
informed the brotherhood men il
Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania
and Illinois, failing to receive wore
of a postponement of the strike, haC
quit work. "That was sufficient proc
that our members would obey tn,
strike order" he declared. The rail
roads agreed they will go back t.
work and Lee said he was confiden
the misunderstanding will b
Strengthened out tonight and thos,
who left will return to their place to
morrow. The optimism of the broth
erhood chief was not shared by tn,
railroad managers, who asserted tina
the settlement is contingent on a de
cision of the supreme court Monda,
unfolding the Adamson law. From
authoritative sources, it is learnet
three considerations are entered int,
negotiations: The pressure of publ
opinion against strike; the possibilit,
of decision Monday on the consti
nationality of the Adamson law, an,
proposal that the railroads accep
the brotherhoods interpretation of tn
law in the event it is upheld.
Samuel Gompers, located at At
lantic City, said he would be at tn
conferences tomorrow.
All embargo orders were modifie,