The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-09-19
N.P.DECLARES
IT HASS0LVED
LABOR PROBLEM n
Won't Accept Baltimore Plan
and Claims Shops Are
Efficient ~ =
BIG SYSTEMS SIGN UP
Hearing on Injunction Con-
tinues and Must End Thurs
day or Writ will be Quashed

tinues and Must End Thurs
! day or Writ will be Quashed
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/ Chicago, Sept. 1s-With numerous
\ railroads continuing to ignore the
Baltimore settlement plan, several
other roads, including a few big
systems, today restored jobs under
the Warfield-Jewell truce to shopmen
who struck eighty days ago.
= Some estimates placed the number
of strikers taken back as high as
$4,000 of the 100000 shopmen who
went on strike July l.
Striking shopmen on the Chicago &
Northwestern and the Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul railroads, the
principal Western roads involved in
the partial settlement of the shop
crafts strike, generally we're return
ing to work today on those systems,
officials said, without any trouble. A
similar situation was reported on the
Seaboard Air Line and some smaller
Southeastern roads.
While these roads were continuing
to stand by the so-called Baltimore
agreement. the New York Central
and Southern Railroads originally
parties to the agreement, continued
to stand aloof after demands by the
strikers which the road officials :"
were not covered by the agreement.
The Baltimore and Ohio, Chicago,
st. Paul, MINNEAPOLIS & Omaha, and
Green Bay and Western were other
roads whose employees were reported
returning to work under the agree
ment.
Some Remain Ont ss.s
Other Western and Eastern roads
not involved in the settlement plan
continued to remain outside the set
tlement, maintaining their shops
were sufficiently manned. Many of
them have organizations Of their own
employees with whom agreements
have been or will be negotiated in
individual settlements not based on
the Baltimore agreement, which was
ratified here last Wednesday by the
general policy committee.
Trouble among employees OF the
Chicago and Northwestern and CHI
cago- Milwaukee & st. Paul apparent
ly had been adjusted today and the
men generally were reported return
ing to work.
At Chicago and adjacent shops OF
the Chicago and Northwestern, vir.
tually a normal force was at work
today, it was said at the general
managers office.
Difficulty Disappearing
r. c. Gaeth, system Federation
chairman, said the difficulties in get
ting the men back to work on the
Northwestern lines generally were
disappearing. At Escanaba, Michigan,
where shopmen had not gone to
work, Gaeth said the men had been
authorized to return to the shops at
10 a. m. today.
Similar conditions were reported
on the Chicago, Milwaukee E st.
Paul, E. F. Greer, vice president, said
men were returning to work all over
the system. Virtually all strikers
were back to work today, Mr.. Greer
said. -
There were no new clashes be-
tween union and non-union men such
as occurred at some Of the Chicago
shops Of the Northwestern and the
Milwaukee roads on Saturday.
Among the roads which accepted
the Baltimore plan for settlement of
the strike were the Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul; the Chicago
and Northwestern, the Baltimore and
Ohio; the Seaboard Air Line, The !
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and +!
Omaha, and the Green Bay and West
ern. Many shopmen formerly employ
ed were expected to be back with
these roads today. The Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul had jobs for H.
900 and the Northeastern for $4,000. /
Solve Problems !
Roads announcing they had solved !
their shop problcus through employ |
ment of new men and former strik- !
ers previously taken back and organ
lied into new shop unions, included
the Chicago and Alton; the Illinois !
Central; Chicago Great Western;
Northern Pacific and Union Pacific.
Bert NJ. Jewell, head of the shop
crafts organization fastened to New
York yesterday where the plans
struck the snags of Eastern opposi-
tion, notably on the New York Cen.
trail lines. /
The situation on the New York
Central was caused, it was explained,
by demands made by the strikers in
addition to the original terms. Simi-
lar demands prevented settlements
on the Southern Railway.
Precautions were taken at the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul anc
shops to prevent re-
currence of Saturdays disorders in
Chicago which grew out of demands
by returning strikers that former
foremen be restored to bosses jobs.
Some Refuse
Railroads which refused to enter
the Baltimore agreement insisted tc-
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