The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-08-06
ECOTIATIONS
10 END STRIKE
ARE RESUMED
1 ike Leaders Are in Cheerful
food After Conference With
President Harding.
Am CREWS MAY
REFUSE TO SERVE
|lr BrOtherhoOds Assert That
braye Prospects in Sight if
|trike Keeps Up.
tsv Tho Associated Press)


ASHTNGTON, Aug. 5.-Negotiations
hd the strike of railroad shop crafts
we're resumed today by President
Ping and B. NJ. Jewell, president of
Railroad Employees Department of
american Federation of Labor, w. H.
ston, president of the Machinists,
j. p. Noonan, head of the Electrical
skers Brotherhood. left the white
e after an hour of conference with
chief executive expecting to be re-
i on Monday.
Strikers Are Cheerful.
was not disclosed whether the presi-
had communicated again with rail-
heads. whose refusal this week
raut his proposal to give returning
ers back seniority status terminal
be first settlemen attempt, but the
i leaders in cheerful mood, said aft
e conference that the proposals, as
lally outlined by the president, con-
ed their 'irreducible minimum in
ng honorable settlement"
Train Crews May 5alk.
ewise n. Z. wills, j. Paul Stephens
Arthur J. Lowell, representing re-
WY the engineers, trainmen and en-
hen and firemen, three of the four
lerhoods organization, saw the pres
at the instance of national chiefs of
orders and of the switchmen's un-
and presented the possibility that
/ prospects of further rail unsettle-
we're in sight unless the shop situa-
was Strengthened out.
was understood that while they did
set up a possibility of sympathetic
les by their membership, they de-
ID that the condition of railroad
pmcnt. locomotives particularly in
\ roads, was growing to be such that
crews might refuse service. No
Hc statement of their report was
other than that contained in the
sage from the brotherhood heads un-
which they acted in going to the
b house. and nothing was given out
Fally. They made it plain, however,
they made no request of the presi-
for a conference with the brother
chiefs.
Postpone Southern Meeting.
L meeting between general chairmen
|Op workers on the Southern Railway |
operating officials, set for today. |
postponed until Monday, for the
|n, according to union leaders, that !
|he representatives of the men had
|Fved in Washington. The Southern
rted separately from the other large |
| Of the country and has offered a
|atc settlement on the basis of Pres
Harding's proposals, without reser-
b. Mr. Jewell said tonight that the
Eion Of whether the Southern shop
20 back was "entirely up to the
|" and that the general policy COM
be Of the shop crafts federation had
ECcted general chairmen to meet off,
Of single railroads whenever such
betting was desired.
No Further Concessions.
Fcisls Of the shop union, though in
Ri to a degree concerning the repre-
Etions made by the brotherhood rep
Fatiyes at the white house, declar-
|ey had no connection with the move.
claim that locomotives and rolling
we're deteriorating badly because
b shops strike was repeated by the
/ chiefs and held up by them as the
Eace which would t9minate the
+ All participants held the belief
President Harding, II he intended to
fse further suasion on the railroad
ftyee would ask no further conces-
from the men other than that in
u in his original proposal OF ac-
|0g the railroad labor board wage
Fts and returning to work pending
brings.
Many in Washington. II
Jewell and Mr.. johnson called l
Samuel Gompers. at the American
Eaton Of Labor, after the white
/ visit. and some OF the represen-
Is Of shopmen on strike in eastern
F@'y were called into washington
ae Weekend to discuss the strike
The national officers. Mr., Gompers
out a statement tonight which
Isd that organized employing and
r'a interests were rallying to the
.'' Of labor arrangements in order TO
" the railway strike a unified un-
'aS'ng campaign"