Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-08-26
STRIKE MEDIATION
|. ENDS IN Failure;
FINISH FIGHT IS ON
Shop m en- Representatives
Reject Settlement Offer
OF Executives.
LABOR LEADERS URGE
MEN TO STAND FIRM
Refusal of Railroads to Re.
store Full Seniority
Ends Parlcys.
noTn SIDES DEFEND COURSE
N'ih"r Employer nor EmrIoyc Will,
Ing To Surrender on Principles
Involved.
/ LABOR LEADERS URGE
MEN TO STAND FIRM
noTn SIDES DEFEND COURSE
Ncfhcr Employer nor EmpIoyc Will,
Ing To Surrender on Principles
Involved.

tBy Associated rress.1

NEW YORK. Aug o5.-The rail-
strike today developed into hsht to
the finish. when peace negotiations
were blown sky-high.
Heads OF the big five railroad
brotherhoods. acting as nedia,ors he
tween executives and striking shop
men In n final effort to effect separ
ate settlement with Individual roads
after the Association of Railway Ex
ecutives as a whole had rejected tho
running trades first peace overturcs.
reported to the representatives of
seventy seven roads at the Yale club
This morning that the shop crafts
had turned down n proposition made
I" them yesterday by the carriers.
Negotiations Broken or.
NcSotiations then were sharply
broken off and executives. s,rike
leaders and brotherhood chiefs packed
up their bags and began leaving
town. prepared for n test Of endur-
ancc.
Before he departed for his head
quarters in Chicago. Bert NJ Jewer.
official spokesman- for the strikers.
asserted he believed tho executives
who had fingered for the parley on
individual settlements soon would be
enabled "to bring home to their hard
shelled colleagues the railroad stu
alton In its grim reality"
we shall he content to let the
condition of equipment prove that
the railroads cannot operate with
unskilled strike breakers" declared
Mr.. Jewell. adding later that I'VE can
and we will fight for our terms and
for a nationwide settlement"
Press Strike With vigor.
Labor leaders then dispatched tele
grams to all parts OF the country
calling upon strikers TO renew the
struggle with redoubled vigor.
The latest peace proposal, center-
ing. as was the case with nj, -bs
others on the question OF seniority.
briefly was that roads Interested in
the individual settlements would
pledge themselves to find emplov-
ment for all strikers not convicted
OF acts OF violence: would not cur
tail pension rights "or other privi-
lescs' and would agree 10 submit TO
commission OF ten brotherhood
tedueTS ana executives all 6lSputrS
which could not be settled by direc,
conference
Strikers Regret Proposal.
The strikers. who have maintained
that they had not authorized the
big five to suggest individual settle
ments. rejected this proposal with the
explanation that It did not guarantees
seniority to the men who might re-
turn on one-third of the country's
roads and at the same time would
destroy the effectiveness OF the striks
being carried on on the other two
thirds.
Then. from tho mediating brother
hoods. came the stsN,ment that thew
reluctantly notified all concerned
that they considered further peaca
efforts futile and had nothing more
to suggest.
l.. h, sheppard. head OF the con-
ductors' organization. who suggested
the peace plan at Wednesdays gen
eTal meeting OF the Association OF
Railway Executives this afternoon
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