Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-09-09
OUTLOOK BRIGHT
FOR SETTLEMENT
WITHIN THE WEEK
Two Definite Plans Are Under ConsideratIon-Io
ment is Not Party to NegOtiatiGns-Wllard
Busy in Chicago With Conferences
(By United PreSs.O

(Ry United PreSs)
Chicago. Sept. 9.-The striking rail-
road leaders today asked the Federal
Court to dissolve the Daugherty m
junction. They filed a petition asking
that the injunction be vacated on three
grounds.
First-That the injunction is in vio-
lation of the Clayton act.
Second-That it was brought by uf-
;erior motives and is unlawful and un-
constitutional.
Third-That the injunction was OBJ
taincd through misrepresentation
The petition will come up for near
ing before Federal Judge Wllkers0n
Monday at the same time when the
Government will ask that 1t be MADE
permanent.
Washington. Sept. 9-Goyernment
officials in close touch with develop
ments in the industrial situation
"have very good reasons for believ-
,ino that the next week or ten days
will see settlements of the rail strike
effected on half dozen or more
southern and western lines, an admin
istration spokesman said today.
Efforts to bring about peace on a
group of "liberalp lines, he said, are
going forward in two directions with
prospects bright for success.
His statement APPARENTLY referred
in part to the activities Of Daniel WI
lard. president Of the Baltimore and
Ohio. who is now in Chicago arranging
conferences with the heads of other
roads that have held a conciliatory
attitude lately in the strike.
At the same time Attorney General
Daugherty i'm a formal statement SAID
that the government would not inter-
fere. under the terms of the Chicago
Injunction, with any meetings held tor
the purpose Of discussing or negotlat-
ING a settlement. The government,
however is not party to any such ne
gotiations, Daugherty said.
The government officials said infor-
nation coming to him indicated that
two definite plans Of settlement arc
being considered by rail executives
and strike leaders These plans, ne
stated. were practically alike except
that in one the executives and strikers
would agree to submit all points OF
disnute. after operations are resumed,
10 the railroad labor board at Chicago,
while. i'm the other, such disputes would
he put up 10 y mixed commission OF
executives and union heads.
This latter method Of settling con-
.rovercios arising after the workers
returned TO their Jobs is a Fart of the
-chcme being advanced by Willard, ac-
cording to Chicago dispatches.
IN both proposed peace plans it was
said. the strikers would yield on their
seniority demands. in that they would
not be guaranteed the same ranking
rs when they quit work on June 3Oth.
The executives. it was stated, have
-tiTencd if ANYTHING. during the past
few weeks in their determination TO
protect the rights Of men employed at
tor the strike started
Daugherty in his statement, declared
that suggestions" that peace efforts
between union heads and executives
would be interfered with under the
temporary restraining order were
"whol1y uniustiied."
"The only concern of the govern
mont" the attorney general stated,
"in industrial peace and restoration
Of transportation. and any conference
between the railroad executives and
their former employees n adjust their
grievances would not find any obstacle
on the part Of the government. On
he other hand. such conferences would
have the governments sympathy"
The Daugherty injunction was to
be tested before the Supreme Court
Of the District Of Columbia today,
when p hearing was scheduled on the
suit brought bv the international
brotherhood of Electrical Workers to
prevent federal agents from enforc-
ing the Injunction.