The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-25
REVISION IS PROBABLE

RL lOlOAN 19 IODtOLG The reqGes. emDouIed ID the fresldent
 message that, if complete award could not be made al this time, a partial set 1 tlement" be announced, could not be act 1 ed on, Judge Barton said, as the hundred or more separate schedules are all re-
 lated and it may be necessary to revise
 awards tentatively decided on when all l the figures are compiled
 | Two moves looking toward settlement
 of the series of sporadic railway strikes will be taken here tomorrow. Heads of all the recognized railway unions will | meet here for conference at which the strike situation will be discussed and also will endeavor 10 learn more defi- l nitely when the railway boards decision : will be announced.
 ! Tomorrow night the Chicago Yardmen's | A Association and the United Enlightenment S l Association-the two organizations of | railway vacationists. as the strikers | term themselves-will hold a mass meet | ing to lay before the public the true 1 side of the present railroad situation,
 and just what means have been employed | to bring the present controversy to a successful conclusion.
 ! The city council, board of trade, ] chamber of commerce railway club and
 manufacturers association have been 1 invited to send representatives to the
 meetings.
 | Reports compiled here show that the present wave of strikes. unauthorized 1 by the brotherhod chiefs. is confined l largely to the Atlantic seaboard. In ] the central west there have been half l a dozen minor walkouts during the
 past ten days. with less than 100 men | involved in each case and without ex- | ception the strikers have return to work after day or two of idleness. l Chicago, Burlington and Quincy mer who struck al Quincy. H., Wednesday l returned to work today.
 l The question of what to do with the strikers will be one of the subjects considered at the meeting of brother hood chiefs tomorrow. When the walk
 outs started here Aprrl i the brother Ihoods retalated by forfeiting the char 1 ters of the unions affected In this manner more than 30.000 railroad workers have been expelled from the unions. brotherhood heads say, and they consider it useless to Consider this form of disciplining.
 POTOMAC YARDMEN RETURN l Washington June 24.--With the return to work tonight of practically all striking yardmen on the midnight shift at Poto- Imac yards here, railroad officials sao | they would be able to handle freight tc and from the south without delay. The l walkout, they said, had caused conges' ton at the gateway and the rerouting oi cars through other points.
 ] Nearly all of the men on the o'clock I shift who participated in the walkou' l here yesterday reported for duty this aft ernoon, and union and railroad offic;afs were hopeful that all men would be back at their posts tomorrow. President Will lson's message to the railroad labor board at Chicago, urging speedy announcement I of it's wage award and the boards re- ply, which was said to have given him assurance that an early decision coult tbe expected, was credited By officials as having prompted the "vacationists' tt return to work.
 Efforts will be made by the railroad: l to rush the movement to northern po1nes 1 of freight from the south which wa: tied up in the yards here. Particular at tention, it was said, would be paid tc perishable freight, including fruit iron southern growers. With full yard crews on the job, it was predicted that nc trouble will be experienced in clearing the lloca, yards promptly.