Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-07-12
RAIL CHIEFS To
HOLD A FARLEY
WITH BIC FOUR
LEADERS TODAY
Issues Growing Out Of the
Shopmen's Strike Are to
Be Discussed at a Con-
ference at Chicago,
USE or GUARDSMEN
CAUSE OF FRICTION
Bloomington Trainmen Vote
Not to Enter the Shops or
Yards While Armed Forces
Are on Duty,
OBy The associated Press.)

Chicago, July II (by the Associ-
ated Press. With state troops
and United States deputy marshals
on guard in half a dozen states to
avert violence and prevent inter-
ference with the movement of the
mails or interstate commerce,
leaders Of the big Four" railroad
brotherhoods and railway eXecu-
tives were hurrying to Chicago to-
night to confer tomorrow on issues
growing out of the shopmen'
strike.
At Bloomington, H., where state
troops have been guarding the
Chicago -& Alton railway shops,
engineers, firemen, trainmen ana
conductors, members of the four
big brotherhoods, voted today not
to enter the shops or yards as long
as troops are stationed there. The
matter of working with guards and
state troops on duty is one of the
matters expected to be taken up
tomorrow.
Another Issue.
Another issue to be discussed
will be the alleged insistence of the
carriers that members of the Big
Four do work regularly assigned
to the crafts now on strike. The
United States Railroad Labor
Board last week gave an opinion
that the members of one union
craft were not required to do the
work of another whose members
we're on strike unless they did so
voluntarily.
Members of the big Four"
unions have also protested that
rolling stock has not been kept in
condition since the strike of shop
men.
Rift In Strike Clouds.
A rift in the strike clouds ap-
peared today with the announce
ment of D. w. Helt, president of
the Brotherhood of Railroad Sig
nalmen that his $4,000 members
would not strike at this time but
expected to open new negotiations
with the industrial carriers regard
ing their grievances. If unable to
reach an agreement the entire
matter will be referred to the Rail-
road Labor board, he said.
The shop crafts leaders assumed
more hopeful attitude today
with receipt of advices that, all
told, eighteen railroads had made
conciliatory expressions looking to-
yxrn n,.I Ia mt nf Ia st,.ily nd
that some were already comforting
with the system federation COM
mittees.
No settlement will be made,
however. except on a national
basis, the union heads insisted, ad-
herring to their original attitude of
insisting that the railroads deal
with the six international shop
unions as whole.
COnfcrs With Jewell.
Negotiations have progressed so
far on the Northern Pacific and
the Great Northern that r. A. Hen
ming, chairman of the strikers
committee of st. Paul. Mimi, came
to Chicago today to confer with
President B. M. Jewell and other
federation officers. No definite
conclusion was reached, it was
said.
Overtures to the local strike
committees have been forthcoming
from several roads ever since the
beginning of the strike, it was
learned today. The committees
have held fast, however, and while
listening to all proposals, refused
to enter into any system agree
ment.
Whatever settlement is made
must be on national basis" said
John Scott. secretary of the shop
crafts, today. I'VE have reiterated
our desire to talk to anyone auth
orized to talk for the railroads but
the shopmen will not enter into
any separate agreement. The
strike must be settled by an agree
ment covering the entire country.
Interference With Mails.
Postmaster General Work asked
an postmasters to report to their
local superintendents of the railway
man service any interference with
the movement of the mails.
AT youngstown, Ohio, the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad obtained a
temporary injunction restraining
with the company's
shops and yards while similar in
junction was obtained by the same
road to protect the roads property
and employees at East st. Louis. Ill,
ana Flora. III. The Missouri Pa
cific and Frisco obtained a tenn
porary federal restraining order a.
Kansas City, Mo-, directed agains.
The shipments unions and officers
and four persons, one a woman. |
were taken into custody at New
Orleans charged with violating fed
eral inJunctions to prevent inter-
ference with the operation of trains. |
Part Of the clerks on the Norgolk
and Western railroad struck fol-
lowing authorization from national |
Several roads an.
nulled trains. the Wabash railway