Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-08-11
Railway Executives Refuse to
Accept Presidents Plan as
to Seniority.
STRIKE SETTLEMENT FAILS
Federal and State Control of Coal Dis
tribution Gets Under Way-Chicago
Traction Workers Quit-Resuts
of Some Interesting Primaries
France Warns Germany
BY EDWARD w. PICKARD

NJ QUOTATIONS for the ending of
the railroad strike were at least
temporarily halted again last week
when the plan of President Harding
failed of complete acceptance. Opt
mistic prophets Of immediate peace
were COMPOUNDED.
AS expressed by himself, the Pres
ident's plan comprised these stipula
lions:
FirSt-Railway managers and work
men are to agree to recognize the
validity of all decisions of the rail-
road labor board and to faithfully
carry out such decisions as contem-
plated by the law
Second-The carriers will withdraw
all lawsuits growing out of the strike
and railroad labor board decisions
which have been involved in the strike
may be taken, in the exercise of recog-
nized rights, by either party to rail-
road labor board for rehearing.
Third-All employees now on strike
to be returned to work and to their
former positions with seniority and
other rights unimpaired. The repre-
Sentatives of the carriers and the rep
resentatives of the organizations espe-
cially agree that there will be no dis
elimination by either party against
the employees who did or did not
strike.
The railway executives were the
first to act on these proposals. They
accepted the first; agreed to the Sec
Ond with the understanding that the
strike be first called off and that the
representatives of the strikers pledge
themselves and the strikers against
violence in any form against the men
now at work and the property OF the
carriers; declared it was impossible
for them to agree to the first sentence
of the third proposal.
Having placed themselves in
strategic position by awaiting action
by the executives, the representatives
of the striking shOpmen met in Chlca-
go and voted, though with expressed
reluctance, to accept the President
proposals. This was conditioned up
on recognition of the union interpre-
tation of the plan, which, among other
things, would require the Pennsyl-
yania railroad to abandon its fight for
the open shop. The shop crafts also
insist on the establishment of ma
tfonal board of adjustment which
would relieve the labor board of all
disputes except those involving wages.
,lc n
boards, but probably all of them are
opnosed to one national board which
would prescribe uniform conditions re-
CARELESS of needs of various localities.
Seemingly the rail executives are in
dead earnest in their refusal to aban-
don their stand on seniority rights.
They notified their local employees
and other workers that they would De
protected and guaranteed permanent
employment, and went ahead with the
task of filling the places of the strlk-
ars. In New York it was said their
decisive stand resulted in a rush OF
applicants for jobs. Public opinion is
widely divided concerning this attitude
of the railway executives. Many per-
sons feel that it is only justice to the
men who have remained at work and
those who have responded to the call
for workers to take up the tools the
strikers laid down. Those who SYM
pathize strongly with the demands OF
organized labor take the position that
the action of the railway heads Is a
Dart of a campaign to destroy the
unions.
1t was predicted in Washington that
President Harding would do nothing
more in the matter at present, giving
the railroads an opportunity TO prove
that they could operate effectively