The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-06
BIC FOUR" HEADS
 PRESENT CLAIMS
 OF THEIR MEMBERS
Tralnmen May Refuse to Take Defective Engines Upon Road, Chief Executive
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uons to end the strike of rallroac shop craftsmen were resumed today by President Harding and B. M Jewell, president of the railroad em. ployes department of the American Federation of Labor.
 W. H. Johnston, president of the machinists, and J. P. Noonan, head of the Electrical Workers Brother hood, left the White House after an hour of conference with tho chief executive, expecting to return Mon day.
 It was not disclosed whether the President had communicated again with railroad heads, whose refusal this week to grant his proposal tc give returning strikers back seniority status terminated the first settle ment attempt, but the strike leaders in cheerful mood, said that the pro- posals. as originally outlined by tho President. constituted their ire ducible minimum in seeking honor able settlement"
 
 Stephens snd Arthur J. Lowell.
 representing respectively the en-
 Eineers, trnsnnsen and ensfsemeu
 snd firemen, three of the four
 brotherhood organizations, saw
 the President at the instance of
 aatfensl chiefs ef these orders
 and of the swftehusen's usfon sad
 presented the possibility that
 grave prospects of further rniI
 snsettiement were in sfwkt up-
 less the shop sitsstion was
 straiwhtesed ont.
 IL was understood that while they did not set up a possibility of sym pathetic strikes by their member ships, they declared conditions of railroad equipment, locomotives par ticularly. on many roads was grow ing to be such that train crews statement of their report was made, other than that contaired in the message from the brotherhoods union under which they acted in go- ins to the White Ho,sss and noth- ing was given out officially. They made it plain. however. that they made no request of the President for confersncs with the brotherhood chiefs
 Tho nesftag bStWeep geBerar
 shasrppes of saep workcvr on the
 sevshern railway asd sp<rstiss
 officials. got for today, was rc~t-
 peaed untf1 Monta1, becadse, ae-
 coysstax te unies iesders, all rep
 resertaffve of the nen had not
 arrived The southerr hes of-
 fereA . separate settscnept on
 the basas of President Harasngss
 proposals, without reservation.
 Mir. lowell said that the question of whether the Southern shopmen n would go back was "entireiy up to the men," and that the general policy committee of tho shopcrafts fedora ton had instructed general chairnnsr 10 meet officials of single railroads whenever such a meeting was de- sired.
 Repeat C1a4ws
 Officials of the shop union. though informed to . degree concerning rep resentations made by the brother hood representa- lives 1t the White House. declared they had no connec- tor with the move Claims that To- ecmotives and rolling stock were de- teriorating was repeated by the influsues which would .deterrnine the belief that President harding. if he intended to exercise further suasion on the railroad executives would ask no further concessions from the men other than that involved in his orig inal proposal of accepting. the rail road labor board wage awards and return to work pending rehearings
 Mir. Jewell and Nr. Johnston called on Samuel Gompers after the White House visit and some of the repre- sentatives of shopmen on strike fn eastern territory were called here for the weekend to discuss the strike with national officers. Mir. Gompers rave out a statement which charged that '.organixed employing and finan- ciaI interests were raliying to the support Of labor arrangements in or der to make the railway. strike un- flied union -sn shins campaign"
 Mr: Gompers presented telegram which he declared the National In- dustrial Council of New York had jrst sent out, urging it's membership to send "a volume of expressions of associations, but particularly indi- vlduals, to the President, sustaining tho position of railroads on seniority to assist railway officials to man shops, and to bring pressure on pres idents of roads, your territory, to stand firm in their position to date.~
 Secretary Davis attended tho Press- q ent's conference and also discussed the situation with the brotherhood at . separate meet ing.