Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-09-07
H0PEF FOR EARLY SETTLEMENT
0FRAlLROAD St RlKE RENEWED
Y NC0MMlT Tee MEET IS CALLED
Policy Committee OF Rail
road Shop Crafts To Con-
vene Monday To Discuss
Important Business"
JEWELS Name Attached
10 Call For Meeting!

are no conferences now In prog
ress between leaders OF the rail.
road strikers and railroad presi.
dents and none have been held
SINCE the formal gatherings in
New York last month, 1t was as
serted today by j. p. Noonan,
cnei OF the Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers. which is one
OF the seven rail unions on ma.
tional strike
The meeting Of the strikers
policy committee called for next
week at Chicago Is to consider
the general strike policy and also !.
to consider what shall be done in
view of the injunction obtained
by the attorney general, Mr.
= Noonan said. @
Chicago. Sept: 7.--tRy the Associ-
crafts policy committee of 80 sum-
1noned TO meet in Chicago next Mon
day. hope Of an early or partial
settlement OF the rail strike was re-
newed today for the first time since
railroad executives and union chiefs
broke off peace negotiations in> New
York three weeks ago.
Separate Peace Possible.
These. hopes were founded prin-
cipally on the call for the unions
policy committee meeting and state
sibility of separate agreements with
81 of the class l roads representing
an approximate trackage Of $4,000
miles. Railroad executives generally
other denied that peace Overtures
had been considered in conferences
with union leaders, or declined to
comment upon rumors Of an impend-
ing settlement. Some insisted that
the strike was broken and that peace
parleys had ended with the break up
of the New York conferences.
The call for the policy committee
meeting issued at Chicago strike
headquarters by John Scott, secretary
of the railway employes' department
Of the American Federation Of Labor,
went out to the general chairman so1
the shop GRATIS organization over the
partment, whose whereabouts had
remained bliciy unknown since the
governments strike Injunction was
granted to Attorney General Daugh.
erty by FederaE Judge James II
Wilkerson last Friday. !s yS-.. eS.S ,.. u Il 4
Mr.. Jewell was variously reported
to have been in several eastern cities
recently, secretly comforting on plan'
for settlement. 1t became known
that he, asN well as other leaders o1
the shopmen's unions. had been In
Baltimore. Henry F. Broening. presi.
dent of the Baltimore Federation Of
Labor, said he had talked with Mr.
Jewell at Buffalo by telephone follow.
ing the strike leaders departure
from Baltimore.
No knowledge OF Conference.
Officials of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, of which Daniel Willard !.
~r,I,i ~, &C. M 1,,An -
the group of roads from which strike
leaders hope to obtain separate agree
ments, denied knowledge of any con
ference with Jewell or his associates
Although talk of gener4 strike
of organized labor as forcible pro
test against the strike injunction wa!
persistent at Atlantic City, member.
of the executive. council expressed
opposition to such course, declaring
that public sentiment was sufilcien
to win the battle"
T. Dewitt Cuyler, president Of thu
Railway Executives association, will
other rail heads, said the roads wer'
pleased with the way striking EN-
ployes were coming back to work.
:, The Nebraska State Federation o
Labor, in calling upon union men t
railway shopmen, adopted resolution
declaring for the amalgamation o
the various unions in each industr
$50 that there shall remain but on
union for each industry"
Cincinnati, Sept. John J. Wall
member of the national policy com
rnittee of the Federated Shop Crafts
today expressed the belief that tn
meeting of the policy committee Il
3 Chicago Monday would be for, tn
purpose of discussing means an
terms Of a general settlement" bu
refused to disclose his basis for sucl
belief. L