Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-07-28

Outside railroad contracting, 1t
was said, will be abandoned by the
railroads under each of the three
proposls.
One of the proposals. according to
those claiming to have information
of the Presidents suggestion would
be for the railroads to waive the
seniority question and take all strik-
ers back to work.
Another was said to be to give
loyal men who have remained at
work prior seniority rights over
strikers and the third was for a sep-
arate adjustment of the seniority
dispute by each road with its own
employees ny joint committees to be
appointed.
| The President was said by his adj
| visors to believe that the three pro-
posals promised considerable hops
| of a strike settlement and to have
| declared that more clouds had
| passed away" in the rail situa-
| ton within the past few hours
| than for several weeks.
Rehearsing by the Railroad Labor
Board of the shopmen's wage ques.
ton was said to be embraced in al
three of the proposals. One propos-
al, it was said, also contemplated
that both employers and employees
agree that hereafter the boards
rulings be observed without question.
The President has suggested with
reference to seniority, it was assert.
ed, that as an initial step under one
proposal the labor board be given
complete jurisdiction over the SEN
iority controversy.
All administration officials ac-
quainted with the proposals appear.
ed to share the Presidents view thai
basis upon which the strikers
might return to work had been
worked out.
The situation is described by
high administration official as inn
proved and showing tendency 10
soften down. He said, however.
that some of the rail executives still
were insistent that the new men they
had taken on to replace the striking
shopmen be retained. 1t was learns
ed that some of the officers who are
amenable to making terms assert
they have work for both the strikers
and all the new men who are COM
petent.
Delay was seen in the announces
ment by T. De Witt Cuyler that a
meeting of the Presidents of 14S
railroads will be called for New
York Tuesday to consider the entire
situation as it now stands. Mr..
CuyIer said that no definite plan for
ending the strike had been drawn up
for submission to the meeting.
Pending Tuesdays meeting of the
railroad presidents, Mr.. Jewell and
his associates will hold a series of
conferences leading to a decision
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They expect today to go to Baltimore
and get in touch with the heads OF
the shop crafts unions of the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad, who have
been carrying on independent nego-
tiations with officials of that railway
system.
When the labor board leaders will
return to Chicago is not known, but
the indications are that they will re-
main in the vicinity of Washington
until after the railroad executives
have communicated their decision to
the President.
The fact that the railroad labor
heads have postponed. their return to
Chicago, the continued presence here
of Mr.. Cuyler and w. w. Atterbury,
vice president of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, and the arrival late last
night of l.. f. Loree, president of the
Delaware & Hudson and Chairman
of the Eastern Presidents Confer
ence, was accepted here as evidence
that the way still lies open to Presi-
dent Harding's efforts to end the
strike.
Upon leaving the White House
late last night, Mr.. Cuyler said:
MY conference with the PRESS
dent was a continuation of the con-
ference with him earlier in the day.
We again went over the situation IN
the light OF the Presidents confer
ence with the union leaders. cam
not, under the circumstances. state
the nature of our decision.
IT can say that I will lay before
the 14S railway Presidents at the
conference to be held in New York
Tuesday the subjects coming up a.
the conference here"
Asked directly if the President
had requested the railroads to con-
cede the question of seniority in taxi
ing the strikers back to work, Guy
ler replied "the President made no
request whatever"
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