Arizona republican., 1921-10-29
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 WILL SEEK
 NEW WA(jEE: REDUCTION
Carriers Declare Intention To Go Ahead With Plans To Seek Further Wage Reductions
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CHICAGO. Oct. 2S-Railroad heads tonight declared that the nations carriers would go right ahead with plans to seek new wage cuts through railroad labor board hearings. de- spite the announcement from the un- ions that their action in calling off the strike scheduled for Oct. 30 had been influenced by the boards an- nouncement that pay reduction pe- utions for any class would not be considered until working conditions of that class had been settled.
 The calling off of the strike will have no effect on the plans an- nounced by the carriers Oct. fl to seek immediate wage reductions so that rates csuld be reduced" said Samuel Felton, president of the Chi cago Great Western and chairman of the Association of Western Railroad Executives.
 T don't know how long, under the boards ruling. it will take to reach a decision of any pay cut petition, but these petitions will undoubtedly be presented within a very short time and it will be up to the board then to decide whae action should be taken.
 T want 1t made plain. however, that we will seek these petitions in accordance with the law, posting mo- tices of cuts, then discussing them with the employees and if no agree ment is reached, appealing to the board to settle the dispute"
 NIT. Felton's statements were echoes of Samuel Drinn, editor of the Rail way Age, who in an address at a luncheon of the local railroad exec utives, declared that "the unions ac- tions settles only one thing-that there will be no strike"
 With the code messages officially calling off the strike sent out to- day, only one echo remained of the railroad crisis which for two weeks threatened to develop into a general rail strike. The situation was un- i changed on the International and 1 Great Northern. the Texas line where 500 trainmen started a walkout last Saturday. No order to call off the strike was sent these men, w. c. Lee, president of the trainmen. say ing that the matter ''is in the hands of the union officials down there" MT. Lee. however. conferred with the labor board today and it was known that he is making every effort to
 bring a settlement of that strike which will be satisfactory to en- ployes.
 The chiefs of the Big Five" left for their homes today and tonight and by midnight scarcely an out of town union man will be in the city.
 The labor board continued work on 1 it's decision on Wednesdays hearings and probably will render it tomor- row.
 The board tonight received tel egram from Alton B. Parker of New 1 York. president of the National Civic | association, congratulating its mem l bers on obtaining annullment of the | strike orders and declaring that the | labor leaders announcement that | they "could not fight the govern ment," showed the difference be- | tween American and European la | Dor, European labor being described
 as making fighting the government" ! it's favorite pastime.
 Board memoers were particularly | interested in dispatches from Wash l ington, scanning every line in their | efforts to determine how the govern ment officials looked on the strike ! averting efforts. No word had been received by the board from any gov- ernment official