The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30

T can't say a word boys. not
 ningle word" B. M. Jewell, head
 of the shopcraft orxaniza ton,
 said on hi. arrival here. He re-
 fused to term the outlook hopeful
 or otherwise, but declared that
 fs was safe to assume thnt the
 meeting of the shop crafts policy
 committee here Tuesday, wns
 called to hear suggestfons for
 terminating the strike.
 Timothy healy. president of the Ftremen and Oilers union which also Is on strike, told newspaper men that he expected Tuesdays meetings to result in n settlement.
 Heaiy Confident.
 Asked concerning the stage peace negotiations had reached. Mir. Healy said that the case is In the hands of the President" he said the execu- tive committee of the firemen and oilers would meet here Tuesday and will go along with the shopmen."
 MT. Healy refused 10 comment on the other peace proposals except to say when asked about the seniority question:
 ''The men will return to work with seniority unimpaired, if they come
 
 VIII go back to work in exactly the same status with respect to seniority as when they left July i.
 Seniority Old Issue.
 In all the railroad strikes in his- tory, settlement was always based on the return of seniority rights to the strikers There will be no dlffsr- ent settlement in this case"
 MT. Healy refused to be quoted to Af-.z. Issues between the railroads and tha strikers had been tentatively agA.ed on between Mir. Jewell and T. De- witt Cuyler of the rail executivees as q result of the conferences with the President.
 We conferred with Mir. Hardinz MT. Cuyler conferred with Mir. Hard ing,' he said. You already know that We'll that is enough"
 Traffic Unaffected
 Both freight and passenger traffic on lines having Headquarters m Chi csgo are practically unaffected by the shopmen's strike, said a state ment issued tonight by the western presidents committee on public rela- tions of the Association of Railway Executives More than 7,I0o shop men, tho statement asserted, were employed this week.
 Freight traffic demands are being met currently and passenger trains with slight delays" said the state- ment. All of the roads report in- creases in the number of men at work in their shops, the total in- crease since July 24 on all western roads being T.169 shopmen."
 The Illinois Central reported io,40a men working in it's shops as com psred with 12.701 the day before the beginning of the strike July 1.
 Hale Holden. president of the Bur lington, in a statement. said that the roads shops at West Burlington had begun to turn out repaired locomo- tives. and that the number of bad or der cars had been reduced during the last week. He said fine pro- gress" was being made in recruiting new shop force, which. he added. now includes 6.51o men. of whom 3.35s have been added during the strike. Additions to the shop force. he said. numbered 26o to 325 daily. HARDING PLAN IS
 REDUCED TO WRITING
 Washington, July 29.-President Harding has reduced to writing and forwarded to the chief representa- lives of the striking railway work CTS and of the railroad executives his plan for settlement of the rail- road strike. 1t was learned tonight from advisers of the executive.
 The Presidents advisers were positive that the settlement plan. evolved by Mir. Harding from his conferences here this week with leaders of both parties to tho con- troversy, had gone forward .,repara- tory to the meetings Tuesday in New York of executives and in Chi cago to the union leaders. There, however. was no statement of any
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