Arizona republican., 1921-10-19
LABOR BOARD
 SUMMONS BIG
 FOUR LEADERS
PRESIDENT. CHARGES LABOR BOARD TO TAKE EVERY POSSIBLE STEP THROTTLE THREATENED STRIKE; HOLD CONFERENCE TOMORROW

in accordance with the cost of liv- ing. Concurrence in these requests should avert the strike. the federation said and volunteered to meet with union and rail leaders as mediator.
 The meeting will be started tomor- not yet issued strike calls although most of them have voted a strike. Leaders of these unions announced at the meeting they will oppose a strike call in the hope a split be- tween them and the five unions d. ready authorizing a walkout may yet avert strike.
 Union leaders called in by the labor board were ". s. Carter, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; Warren s. Stone. president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; William c. Lee, president of the Brotherhood. of Railroad Trainmen; l.. k. Sheppard, president of the Order of Railway Conductors, and T. C. Cashen, presi- dent of the Switchmen's Union of North America.
 The conference was called for the avowed purpose of preventing a strike, according to Ben Hooper, vice chairman of the labor board. He re- turned tonight from Washington where he and other members of the public group conferred with Presi- dent Harding.
 Hope To Avert Strike l Tt is the desire of all clements of l the board to do everything possible ] to prevent a strike he said after a conference with board members.
 What the procedure will be on 1 Thursday cannot say. It is safe to assume every possibility of averting a wal1out will be taken up and it is our hope that the two parties can be
 brought together on some basis look ing toward settlement
 Mir. Hooper refused to say whether
 the board regarded the conference
 summons as an investigation of a
 threatened violation of the board
 orders. It was pointed out, however
 that there would be no violation oi
 the boards July 1, wage reduction or
 der until the men walked out.
 By coincidence the first Hearing al
 which any party has been cited tC
 appear because the board believed i
 had violated a decision is set for tn,
 same day as the conference 10 a. m. Thursday. The Pennsylvania ha: been ordered to appear then becaus,
 1t has not held an election of sho,
 mems representatives as directed b,
 the board
 Explaining further the pubIi
 statement issued by the public groul Tn Washington Sunday, Mir. Hoope
 sald that the board recognized tha
 there was a universal demand fo
 the reduction of freight rares.- Tn suggesting translation of tn
 last wage cut into reduced frefgh . rates and advising against furthe requests for wage reductions at thi time, the board does not mean tha the parties may not come before With disputes,' he said. rTiia sug sesuon was made merely as 'rnodu VlVendf for solving the present trans } portatlon problem. We suggeste 5 that the roads cease wage reduction
 Tor the present and reduce rates as
 step Tn the revival of industry. W peneve such action would result i T helplng bridge the business depres . slon and lower the cost of living, ,, Then after the public had bee gwen a breathing spell, the road would be at liberty to come bac eo the board with further request = Tor wage reductions"
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