The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-08-12
THREATENING ASPECT FACES COUNTRY
ON SEVENTH WEEK OF RAIL STRIKE

shopcrafts employees had assumed ;
still more threatening aspect today a.
the walkout entered the seventh
week. A paralysis of railroad trans
portation in various sections, partic
usarly in the far West and Northwest
and Southwest, is threatened as Tho
Big Four BROTHERHOOD men. have aban.
doned work or called meeting tc
consider quitting in protest against
the presence of armed guards on rail.
road properties, or against handling
alleged defective equipment. The
trainmen's wa,.iout started when the
crews tied up transccntinental Santa
Fe trains in California, Arizona des-
erts and freight on the Elgin, Golieta
II Eastern and gradually has taken
on Importance during the last "a
hours.
Washington, Aug. IL (By the Asso-
.ciated Press).-The promise of ali
early answer by the seven striking
shopmen's unions to President Hard
ing's latest and "final" strike settle
ment was sent in an announcement
from the White House that the rail-
road union leaders had made an en-
garement to call at 2:3O O'Clock this
afternoon on the president.
, New York, Aug. IL (By the Associ-
ated Press) The eight rail execu
tives, headed by T. Dewitt Cuyler,
today are en- route to the White House
to deliver the reply of the railroads to
President Harding's plan for settle
ment of the rail strike From authori-
tative sources il was learned that the
message was neither unqualifiedly ac.
cept nor rejects the plan, but contains
the conditional acceptance, with Guy
Ter declared the committee "hopes to
be well received by both the president
and country
New York, Aug. II (By the Asso-
ciated Press).-The executive heads
of 14S American railways tonight con-
ditionally accepted President Hard
ing's second proposal for settlement of
the nationwide rail strike.
This unofficial announcement was
made shortly after z o'clock following
Z, nrolonged conference at the. Grassi
Central terminal surrounded by the
greatest secrecy.
Officially, it was merely stated that
committee representing virtually all
the railroads in the country would
wait on President Harding at the
White House tomorrow afternoon with
reply to his program drafted by a
committee appointed by the Associ-
alton of Railway Executives and ap-
proved by the body as a whole.
The conditions which went into the
sources, were:
First: That the presidents request
that the strikers be taken back should
be interpreted that as many strikers
should be rehired as should be needed
by the roads to bring their shop forces
to normal.
Second: That such strikers should
be taken back Internationally and
that the railroad labor board la:er
should determine whether they were
to regain their seniority privileges.
President Harding had suggested
that all strikers be given back their
cid jobs, and that the question Of
seniority be left to the railroad labor
board to be threshed out later.
Although formal statement to the
press issued after the meeting by 7,
Dewitt Cuyler, chairman of. the As
sociation or Railway Executives, set
forth tnat "the action of the railway
executives can not be made publ"
until it has been submitted to the
president" said Robert s. Binkerd, as
sistant to Mr.. Cuyler, declined to state
what had transpired at today's ses-
sion. This statement nevertheless was
obtained from Mr.. Bnkerd:
"The reply to President Harding
was not looked upon by the execu-
tives as compromise on the ques-
tion of seniority. 1t is, however, q
reply which we trust will be received
by both the president and the coun-
try
Legally, we believe our stand will
be beyond reproach. 1t is neither
antagonistic to, the presidents pro-
posal nor to the stand announced in
the executives reply Of August 1 to
the first proposal submitted by Mr..
Harding, in which they expressed a
determination to stand by their
pledges to loyal employees and to new
men who had been hired to take the
places of strikers"
President Harding's first proposal
was three horned.
The first two n"rdit;ons-that the
wage decisions of the railroad board
must be recognized by both sides and
that lawsuits arising from the strike
must be dismissed for settlement by
the board-were accepted by the ex.
ecutives.