The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-07-29
new HOPE FOR
|. SETTLEMENT AT
AN EARLY date
Seniority Rights Is Only Section
Over Which Controversy Is
Liable TO Arise.
SUGGESTS PROBABLE
COMPROMISE PROPOSAL
Railway Heads Will Hold Meet
ing in New York and Labor
Leaders in Chicago Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, July 2s-ProDosaI
for settling the railroad strike. drawn
up by President Harding and repre-
senting the conclusions reached by
him after the extended conferences
OF the past As hours with labor lead
ers and railway executives, will be
presented TO separate meeting of the
two groups next Tuesday-the railroad
managers meeting in New York and
the employe ENJOYS in Chicago.
Details of the plan or plans. were
still withheld tonight by President
| Harding was said to feel that pros
poets were bright for an early settle
| ment of the controversy which has
threatened to retard seriously the
country's transportation system.
Seniority Paramount
A major section in the presidents
| settlement was understood to involve
| the seniority issues, which was said
/ further to be the only section in the
! plan to have been identified as among
| the controversial issues between the
| railroads and their workmen.
| Another. section would conoede the
/ right of the strikers to a rehearing be-
/ fore the railroad labor board on the
wage. issue, and another would bind
the railroads to set up regional ad-
| justment boards, while a fourth would
require abandonment by railroads Of
| contracts with Outside" shops for re-
pair work.
Suggests Compromise
8 President Harding was understood
to have suggested a compromise on
! the question of seniority rights by
| which all men hired since the strike
would retain the positions, the strik-
ers regaining their former privileges
so as to rank just behind the men who
did not walkout July 1.
The strikers under the plan would
return to work at the scales set By
the board in its decision OF July /.
which percipitated the strike. but
without prejudice to either side when
the matter was brought up for re-
hearing
Chiefs Leave for Chicago
B. NJ. jewell, president OF the rail-
way employees department Of the
American Federation OF Labor and
international officers OF the railroad
unions on strike left Washington to-
night for Chicago, announcing that
the general strike committee OF each
organization would convene in that
city Tuesday to consider the Presf-
uSIlI odSStSLlOuS. Il OtNlLl GuAItls
chairman of the Association OF Rail-
way Executives and principal spokes-
! man of the mana gements, announced
last night that the executives would
meet in New York on that day for the
same purpose.
Hoover May Attend
It is expected that preliminary con-
ferences will be held by each group,
to Lad
for consideration by the general ses-
sions. The general strike committee of
the union ordinarily consist of a rep
resentative of each craft in each rail-
road system where the strike is in ef-
feet.
It is understood that Secretary
Hoover might attend the railway ex-
ecutfves session at New York, rep
resenting the administration, and there
was a possibility that Secretary Davis
might attend the union gatherings. Mr..
Davis left tonight for Mooseheart, Ills,
near Chicago.
| Apparently the presidents proposals
will go before the railroad employees
with the recommendation of their in
ternational union officers favoring ac-
ceptance. 1t appeared improbable that
1.-THE railroad executives would have the
same favorable recommendation from
their spokesmen whom the president
has seen.
Although the union leadership was
understood to be willing to recommend
calling off the strike on a basis which
would still leave their members work
ing at the wage reductions which
caused the strike, the seniority issue
i which has been raised since the walk
out has been growing more formidable
| each day. Railroads which have been
II more or less successful in building up
new shop working forces have indicat-
ed increasing strenuous objections to
proposals that any OF the new men be
displaced by returning strikers. A
large number of lines, however, includ-
ing most of those in the southeast and
northwest sections OF the country
, have indicated their willingness to take
back all of their men in the exact posi-
tions, which they held at the time Of
| striking.