Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-07-13
RAIL EXECUTIVES WILL
DISCUSS SETTLEMENT Of
STRIKE ONLY WITH i, s,
LABOR BOARD, DECLARE
PROPOSAL TO MEET With JEWELL
IS FLkTLY REJECTED BY CHIEFS
Issue Raised Is Not One for Consideration Be-
tween the Carriers and the Representatives
of the Organized Shop Crafts Except
Through the Regularly Organized Tribunal

OAiiSoSO, ouiy IL Wy IliC
Associated Press) flat
refusal to meet with B. M.
Jewell, head of the strik-
ing shopmen to discuss
peace proposals was the
answer tonight of railway
!, executives to a proposal
made by Ben w. Hooper,,
I chairman of the United
States Railway Labor board.
In a letter addressed to
Mr.. Hooper, the executives
declared that 'the issue
raised is not one for consid-
GRAFTON between the carriers
and the representatives of
the organized crafts on
strike except through the
further orderly process be
fore the United States RAD
road Labor board"
Asserting that the strike was
refusal to accept the results of the
arbitration of the labor board, the
letter declares that no conference
contingent on the abandonment of
the decision of the board was per
m1ssible nor tolerable because 1t
hn
pating therein in apparent CO.
operation with those on strike in
seeking to find means to subverr
the decision of the labor board"
Recall of Strike Order.
The letter added, however, that
a prompt recall of the strike order
would permit the resumption If
former methods of conference anC
permit the consideration of any
matters which Representative OF
employees might desire to submit"
The letter. which was signed by
Samuel NJ. FELTON,, president of the
Chicago and Great Western rail-
way; L. F. Loree, of the Delaware
and Hudson, B. F. Bush, of the
Missouri Pacific, and Whiteford R
Cole, of the Nashville, Chattanooga
and st. Louis, follows in full:
Replying to your inquiry to
Messrs. Bush. Cole, Loree and Eel
on, on the occasion of your call this
morning, we beg to say that while |
we. as chairmen of conference
committees relating to railroad |
matters in the several sections OF |
the country, are without authority !
to speak for individual companies, |
we have no reason to believe THAI |
a meeting between the railroad |
companies and representatives Of |
the striking employees can be ar
ranged under present conditions.
All Parties Heard.
This strike is refusal to accept |
the results of the arbitration of the
United States railroad labor\board
pursuant to law, after exhaustive
hearings in which all parties con-
80, last, the board, of which you
are chairman, called public hear
ing by citation to the proper rep
resentatives of carriers and organ
izations named in the order Of the
board for the purpose of an inquiry |
invited by the board under sec
tion 313 of the transportation act
1920. Notwithstanding the fup
response by carriers to this citation
representatives of the organizations,
members Of which are now on
strike, refused to attend. and per-
sisted in their refusal to do so and
thereby aid the board in the per-
formance of its public duty in tha
further inquiry in the circumstances
relating to the strike then threat
ened. II
Carriersr' Conclusion.
after respectful consideration of
your inquiry, the conclusion seems
necessarily to follow because Of
the strike thereafter called in de-
fiance of the decision and order of
the United States railroad labor
board--decisfon No. 1036-arid the
controlling provisions Of the trans
portation act, that the issue thus
raised is not one for consideration
between the carriers and represent
atives of the organized crafts on
strike except through the further
orderly processes before the United
States railroad labor board as con-
templated by the transportation
act. This conclusion is confirmed
by the statement@-which have ap-
1~ontinued on Page Two.