The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-08-09
ISSUE
TORA|LROAD BOARD
ASKS THAT SHOP
MEN BE TAKEN BACK PEND
ING DECISION-HEADS OF
BROTHERHOODS CALLED TO
MEET NEXT FRIDAY.

Washington, Aug. S.-As final
all" from the government for I'M
Mediate settlement of the rail strike,
President Harding today communl-
lated to railroad executives and
heads fthe striking shop craft un-
Ions proposals that the men be sent
back to work, that the managements
lake them back and that adjustment
kf the crucial seniority issue be left
10 decision of the railroad labor
board.
Though the president was said to
consider this the only practical
kourse the government could take,
anion spokesmen, indicating its re-
ection, summoned their associates
% meet here Wednesday to pass up
IN the proposal and further called to
Washington for general conference
Friday the heads of all railroad Ia
Dor organizations to consider meth
DDS of cooperation that might make
The strike more effective.
The rail executives had made no
response to the White House tonight
hough press dispatches indicated
! that they also would meet to frame
b collective answer.
B. NJ. Jewell, president of the rail-
aay department of the American
Federation Of Labor, with W. H.
Johnston, head of the machinists'
association, and J. H. Noonan, COM
prising committee representing the
striking unions, took the presidents
into conference late
Today, calling in H. E. Wills of the
Engineers, Paul Stephens of the train
men, and Arthur J. Lowell Of the fire.
men and enginemen, all three being
Washington representatives of
t'brotherhood" organizations in the
train service which have actually
acted apart from the labor unions in
|other branches of service.
The union chiefs, following the
meeting, gave out statement which
was taken as foreshadowing their
course and copies of telegram to
w. G.. Stone, chief of the engineers,
and to E. J. Manion, president Of
the telegraphers, asking their coop
Grafton in the formulation of a pro-
gram which would provide for its
purpose protection of the public.
preservation of the railroad indus,
try and an honorable basis Of settle.
ment."
"Messrs. Noonan, Johnston and
Jewell have been in conference sew
eral hours considering the propose
made by the president today" the
statement said. eve have requested
the chief executives of all the strik
ing shop crafts unions and the sta
tionary fremen and oilers to meet
us here Wednesday of this week.
eve have also urgently requested
by telegraph and telephone that q
conference Of all executives of rail
road labor organizations be held in
Washington Friday, August II.
eve have requested this confer.
ence because we recognize that rail
road employees not now on strike
will in defense of the travelling pub
lie and themselves, necessarily have
to decline to operate the defective
locomotives and cars now in service
'It is clear to any unbiased person
that railroad equipment is growing
more unsafe each day and relie1
must be had through an honorable
settlement. Employees now on strike
are firm in their position and viii
continue so as long as the Associa
tion of Railway Executives decline:
to accept reasonable terms of agree
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