The New York herald., 1922-09-08
With S3,OO0,0O0, Shopmen
Can Hold Out~Until They
Win, They Declare.
En- SOLDIERS PROTEST
Tell Harding Injunction
Smells of Kaiserism They
Fought to Destroy.

Confirmation yesterday of the re-
port that a meeting of the policies
committee of the striking railroad
shopmen had been called for next
Monday morning in Chicago produced
opposite reactions upon carriers and
men.
Executives interpreted the call as a
sign of weakening on the part Of strike
leaders Some predicted the strike
would be at an end by September 15.
! Others opined the meeting of the COM
mittee was to sanction separate
agreements" between strikers and
roads on the basis of restored pension
rights, which the roads say they are
willing to give, and with seniority left
catch as catch can. Chairman T. De-
Witt Cuyler of the Association Of Rail-
way Executives stood on his statement
that 'the collapse of the strike is in
sight
| The central strike committee had no
official comment to make other than
that il was "a fight to finish," and
that the s3,0o0,o0o contribution ex-
pected from local trades unions would
permit strikers to hold out long enough
to make victory sure.
RumOr of a Peace Deal.
A vigorous rumor. however. was cur
rent in labor circles last night to the
effect that . peace deal was on be-
| tween b. VI. Jewell, national strike
leader. and 5. Davies warfield, pres-
dent OF the Seaboard Air Line. II War
field could deliver one-third of the
Class A railroads. Jewell was to secure
authorization from the Policies Com
mittee to make a separate peace. Here
tofore Jewell has been adamant on
national settlement. What peace terms
would be proposed in event a basis OF
! discussion were achieved were not in
dicated.
Daniel willard. president of~the Bal
timore and Ohio and former member
| Of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
! gineers, was named as the master mind
behind the scenes. Warfield was de-
scribed as now being engaged in at
tempting to proselyte. among others
the Southern Railway. Norfolk and
Western and Chesapeake and Ohio in
the East. and the Burlington. Northern
Pacific and the Chicago and Great
Western i'm the West.
Strikers Get Comfort from Letter.
Strikers professed to find support for
their claims that rail equipment was
breaking down in a letter from United
States Senator Albert S. Cummius.
chairman of the Senate Committee on
Interstate Commerce, received yester-
DAY by John j. Dowd, chairman OF
the strike committee. Answering Mr..
I Dowd's request for an investigation,
the Senator wrote in part:
\ II realize as fully as YOU possibly
can the effect of the shopmen's strike
and know that. taking the country over.
the percentage OF bad order cars has
investigation to establish this fact. for
while the degree of disability Is in dis
pute. the fact that the roads have not
been able since July ! to keep their
engines and cars in proper condition is
admitted by all candid persons"
Repair Of this bad order equipment
was urged by the Senator as tho 'im-
mediate problem and he solicited the
strikers cooperation on tho ground OF
public service. The strike committee
did not allude to this suggestion.
Ex-Soldiers Protest to Harding.
Immediate resignation Of Attorney
General Daugherty and dismissal OF
"the Infamous injunction" were de-
manded of President Harding in a petit
tion wired him by fifty-eight ex-service
men in the ranks of the local strikers.
Arbitrary practices by rail executives
which went unpunlshed. even though
In violation OF labor board rulings for
the year preceding the strike. were
charged by the veterans. The intoler-
able hardships thus worked upon the
shopmen made peaceful protest by
striking" inevitable, they described. The
Attorneys Generals steps were likencd
10 "kaiserism." Plea was made that
these strikers be given some share of
the democracy and freedom here that
they upheld overseas.
The New York Central lines reported
yesterday their shop forces are within
1.5 per cent of 100 per cent. The week $
recruiting showed an Sc per cent. gain.
The normal shop force before tho strike
was given as 1862 men and the present
force as 1915.
Total recruits on all roads for the
week ended Tuesday numbered 2.q21. ac-
cording to figures OF the Association
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