Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-10-27
U. S. BOARD SEES
HOPE FOR PEACE
Says There Is Great Reason to
Hope Strike Will Be
Averted.
NEXT MEETING ON WEDNESDAY
Federal Labor Body Will Confer With
Executives and Leaders of Broth
erhoods in Effort to Prevent
Walkout October 80,

their declarations for strike, the
four train-service brotherhoods and the
Switchmen's Union of North America
have lost the support of all but one
of the eleven unions in the so-called
standard group" The last union 80
join the mo strike" movement was the
Brotherhood of Railway Signalmen.
who refused to join the brotherhoods.
The railway telegraphers alone have
agreed to walk out If the big five"
strike October 30.
Board Members Optimistic.
Chicago, Oct. 25.-"There is great
reason to hope that the strike is
averted."
This was the high light of state
ment issued by the United States rail-
road labor board as 1t prepared for
Nconference Wednesday with railroad
executives and leaders of the big five
brotherhoods in an effort to prevent
the walkout set for October 80.
Coming on the heels of the an
nouncement that the tenth rail union
had gone on record against Joining the
brotherhoods in a strike, this ex-
pressed confidence of the board led to
the belief that the board had in mind
official action that viii effectually
avert the traffic tieup.
The Boards Statement Follows.
"There is great reason to hope that
the strike will be averted.
"The railroad labor board has set
tied 700 disputes between railroads
and thefr employees in about year
and half Many Of these disputes
contained the possibility of strikes or
lockouts
1.-THE railroad industry has gone
along with only few spasmodic tie
ups of minor nature, while other in
dustries like building, steel and coal
mining have suffered disastrous stop
pages or slow paralysis. Perhaps the
board is not to be credited with this,
but it is coincidence that there was
no such tribunal in the industries
which have suffered severely from
strikes.
1.-THE board is anxious to get tn,
present uIspure our or the way In or
der that the restoration of sound bust
ness conditions may proceed.
"A,l good Americans should refrain
from loose talk and provocative Ian,
gurge about either side of the contro.
versy now pending. Let the public
assume that both parties to this con-
troversy are struggling in good faith
to solve some of the difficult industrial
problems that are the aftermath
of the war, and THAT all governmental
agencies recognize the complexities
of the situation and are anxious to be
useful in their solution.
Neither Of the parties should be
denInciation or insinuation from ire
sponsible sources"
Five hundred general chairmen of
the brotherhoods and similar mum.
Der of railroad executives will meet
with the board Wednesday. A meet
ing of the Association of Railway ex-
ecutives TO discuss their attitude
toward Wednesdays conference was
called Cor todaly.
Believed Strike Is OF.
tension under which the executives Of
the five train service unions have been
laboring for the last two weeks has
been dropped and II Is believed that
some definite proposition has been
tentatively offered them which they
are ready to accept.
one railroad man high in the coun-
ellis of the locomotive engineers union
said: "There will be no strike Octo.
Der 30. OF this ! am satisfied be-
place within the last few days. But
the unions were not bluffing and we
fully expected TO go out until today"
President w. g. Lee of the railway
trainmen, following a long conference
Of all five leaders of the big rail
unions, said this evening: 81 am not
at liberty to make public what took
place In our conferences, but | will
say that what occurred would be
of vast interest to the public IL you
knew what II was"
Hardins's Strike Plans.
Washington, Oct. 25.-President
Hardlng's plan for upholding the law
In event of general rail strike were
worked out In conference between
Attorney General Daugherty and dis
Of the nation New York, Chicago,
Cleveland, Buffalo and indianapolis.
"The government will not undertake
to run the railroads, but the govern
ment will see that the railroads are
operated" said the attorney general
as he left the White House to meet
the assembled district attorneys.