The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-25
RAIL PEACE
BY SEPARATE
PACTS FAILS
Attempts to End Shopmen'
Strike by Individual Settle
ments Abandoned and Con-
ferences Are Dropped.
ROAD CHIEFS LEAVE
(By Associated Press)


NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-Attempts to
end the railroad shopmen's strike by
separate settlement with individual
roads failed today and the conferences
were broken.
Daniel Willard, head of the Balti-
more and Ohio and head of the com
mittee of executives who Wednesday
decided to continue negotiations with
the mediating brotherhoodS to see II
separate settlements were possible,
and other rail heads are preparing to
leave town.
In announcing the breaking off of
negotiations David Williams, head of
the eastern strike committee said:
Nothing else could have happened.
If they'll quit fussing around, Wen
beat those fellows"
The break came after the brother
hood leaders, who right along have
maintained that the strike must end
because the public demands it, had
spent two hours comforting with execu-
| tives representing about 80 per cent
of the country's mileage.
Resumption Unlikely
These negotiations looking toward
| Individual settlement began Wednes-
4
road executives had rejected any pro-
posal involving surrender on the Sc
niority question. After yesterdays
conference the mediators ikened their
situation to bats who could not find
| the way out of their difficulties. The
! brotherhood leaders said after the con-
| ference that the mediators had made
every possible effort to bring about
settlement, but that negotiations had
! blown up They indicated that there
was no likelihood at present that they
| would be resumed.
From unofficial sources it was learn
ed that the break up came when labor
men rejected proposals advanced by
the roads which were regarded by the
i executives as representing big con-
cession.
Urge Struggle Renewed.
/ At labor headquarters where all
were prepared for fight to the finish,
kilograms were being dispatched all
over the country calling upon strikers
to renew the struggle with redoubled
vigor I'VE know now where we
stand" said one leader.
The executives statement issued by
Daniel Willard. head of the B. and O.,
added that the ranks of loyal employees
would be protected. A statement is
: sued at labor headquarters said that
they did not question the integrity OF
the executives in making their propos.
al, but the union would not accept it.
B. NJ. Jewell, head of the strikers,
issued a short statement in which he
said: We do not blame the more rea'
, sonable executives who have evidently
: yielded to pressure We believe the
, next few weeks will enable them to
2 bring home to their hard-shelled col
? leagues the raj lSituation in its grim
reality
5 Fights Not Impaired.
, The executives said they felt at lib
erty to do so as it did not impair tbs
! rights or privileges of the other road:
f not participating in the conference. i
D any dispute came up which could not
: be settled by direct conference, they
: were willing to submit these point:
! to a commission of men comprising
the heads of the Big Five and five
Q executives.
r The lines, moreover, said they wert
willing to enter upon such a plan in ;
spirit of conciliation.
statement issued by the execu
tives representing main and subsidar!
lines with $4,000 miles of track al
which had attended the latest confer
ences declared any desire to take ad
U vantage Of the strike situation to cur
: tail "the pension or other privileges
5 which had been earned by the striker
). before quitting and expressed willing
9 ness to restore all strikers with pen
l. sion privileges, unimpaired.