Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-12
WILL TAKE UP
RAISE PLEA AT
1880 FRIDAY
President to Meet Railroad
Employees in the Whitehouse
Garden for Conference.
HINES REJECTS DEMAND

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-Presi-
dent Wilson will meet three repre-
sentatives of the railroad workers at
the whitehouse at 1890 o'clock to-
morrow to discuss with them their
wage demands.
The president will meet with the
railroad employees representatives in
the garden of the whitehouse and at
that time will go over the entire
question Of increased wages for rail
road workers, it was announced.
The three representatives who viii meet
with the president will be selected by
the railroad men themselves.
WILL DISCUSS
HINES REJECTION.
The president plans to discuss Director
General Hines report with the men and
to ask their assistance in reaching hnal
discussion as to the approval Of Director
General Hines rejection OF the demands
Representatives of the workers today
let It be known that they would be in a
receptive mood to discuss with the presi
dent the possibilities Of a wage tribunal,
providing assurance was given that such
a board would be appointed Immediately
The presidents conference tomorrow
will be the first he has held with any
persons outside Of his cabinet since his
illness and signifies his return to active
work The conference will be in the
open, while the preident Is taking his
customary outing In the whitehouse
grounds.
FIRST CONFERENCE
SINCE ILLNESS.
st the whitehouse It was stated that
the president IS improving and Is con-
ident that following his conference with
the men be viii be able to reach 8 de-
clsion which will be satisfactory to the
railroad employees, the government and
the public The president IS rather con
iGent that there will be no strike. 1t was
stated
optimism ran high todny and thers
we're hopes that there would be no gen
eral strike 1t was even believed that
The strike called by the maintenance OF
way euplovea would be avcrted before
next Tuesday.
W. q Lee. chief Of the Brotherhood Of
Trainmer. while iusistent upon the de-
mands of his brotherhood, was in no
mood to threaten strike. and expressed
a strike could be averted
DIRECTOR HINES
Full STATEMENT.
Director General Hines. who turned
down the railroad mems demands fol-
lowing his conferences with them, today
prepared this statement for the presi-
dent:
since Feb. 3 the director general has
bad frequent conferences with the chief
executives of the railroad labor organi-
zatious for the purpose Of devising means
for dsposjng Of the pending claims for
wage increases. During these confer
cnces the executives Of the labor organi-
cations have expressed their views with
great ability and frankness.
The director general has not been able
to agree with them as to how the prob
lem should be disposed OF in view Of the
early termination Of feedral control, and
Is now laying before The president the
representations Of the executives Of the
organizations and also his own report
for the purpose of obtaining the presi-
dents decision in the premises.
"In any event, the conferences have
been decidedly helpful in bringing out
a clearer development as to the real
issues involved and as to the character
OF evidence pertinent to those issues, and
the discussion throughout has been char
acterized by courtesy as well as candor
and with a sincere purpose on the part
of all to try to fnd solution"