Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-08-24
RAIL NACNATES
WILL NOT BULGE
Loree Says Executives Stand
Pat on Their Priority
Contentious.
END OF STRIKE is FAR AWAY
Unrest Among Railroad Workers
Throughout Country Is Growing
Fruit and Vegetable Growers
in West Face Ruin.

New York, Aug. 22.-Even the
pressure of economic necessity" may
not settle the railroad shopmens
strike tomorrow, when the las mem
berS of the Association of Railway Elk,
ecutives meet in this city.
The end of the strike. which seemed
so imminent last Friday when the
conference between the executives of
the five transportation unions acting
as mediatorS broke up, apparently is
as far away as ever.
This became apparent when the
meeting of the Eastern presidents con-
ference ended. L. f. Loree, president
of the Delaware & Hudson railroad
and chairman of the conference, made
a statement which was anything but
c0nciliatory in its tone. He said that,
as far as his road is concerned he had
no desire to accede to any of the de-
mands of the shop crafts unions, but
was willing to take back as many of
the roads former shopmen as cared to
apply for work.
| Many of the Shopmen, Mr.. Loree
said, are returning to work and more
are anxious to do so, waving the SEMI
GRITTY question.
But the union chiefs will not and
! cannot recede from their position on
seniority" he said. ''They have good
! jobs and it would be disastrous to
| them"
| Mr.. Doree said that the other rail
way executives who attended the
meeting are firm iii their attitude that
/ they will not give in to the unions on
/ the matter of seniority rights.
Unrest Is Widespread.
! Washington, Aug. 22-Reports from
| the country at large, as received at the
| War department. indicated that there
| is growing unrest among the rail
road workers. This unrest is under
stood to have gone so far, according
to those who are peSSimistic regarding
| the final outcome of the strike, that
an agreement at New York tomorrow
may not satisfy this element
Fruit and vegetable growers in the
West face financial ruin unless the rail
strike is Immediately ended Senator
/ Borah Udaho) informed the ASsocia
ton of Railway Executives
| In telegram to T. Dewitt Cuyler,
| chairman, he urged the Importance Of
/ q settlement being reached when the
executives meet in New York Wednes-
day to take up the proposal of the rail
| brOtherhoOdS.
The telegram follows:
MAY l respectfully urge all those
who shall convene on Wednesday TO
consider means of settling the strike
because at this time, in the fruit
is a pronounced shortage of cars and
utter inability to move those perish
able products to the market
Farmers Face Ruin.
Thousands of cars of potatoes and
fruits are ready to move and the most
serious and widespread loss and dam
age must soon follow. If relief is not
had at once and cars furnished the
next 20 days will witness the ruin of
hundreds of fruit and potato raisers.
who must lose their entire years work,
to say nothing of the indirect loss to
the people who ought to have these
products.
"These things doubtless are familiar
to you, but you will pardon me for
urging it again upon your attention.
The situation is fast becoming intol.
cradle and l felt 1t my duty to accen-
tuate these conditions to those who
are to be in attendance at the confer