Evening star., 1922-09-15
Separate Agreement Pro.
gram Fails to Appeal to
Some Roads.
OTHERS ARRANGE
TO RESTORE MEN
Conferences Continue, as so Lines
Are Said to Have Ac-
scepted Terms.


NEW YORK, September 1S.-The
entire New York Central railroad
system today signed nm agreement
with its conductors and trainlnen
covering working conditions, wages
and rules for one year, beginning
September 80.
CHICAGO, September l5.-Refusal by
number Of the country's biggest rail-
way systems to enter into the Warfield
Willard-Jewell plan for ending the shop
mems strike on the basis Of separate
and individual agreements developed an
element Of considerable uncertainty to-
day over the scope and effectiveness of
the peace program.
While some Of the larger systems had
fatty rejected the plan. others. how
ever, notably the Chicago and North
western, Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul. had virtually completed arrange
ments for restoring strikers at once to
their former Jobs under terms Of the
separate settlement plan.
Negotiations were in progress with
several roads in an effort by shop craft
officials to effect additional settlements
Address Unwilling Roads.
Strike leaders were said to be ad-
dressing communications to some Of the
unwilling roads asking them to recon-
slider their rejections
Among the larger systems said to
have closed the door against the set
tlement plan today were: Pennsyl-
vania, Union Pacific, Norfolk and
Western. Southern Pacific. Chicago
and Alton; Chicago. Rock Island and
Pacific: Northern Pacific; Great
Northern: Chicago. Burlington and
Quincy; Missouri, Kansas and Texas,
and subsidiary lines.
Other roads still outside the agree
ment today. included: Central of
Georgia; Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western; Erie; Illinois Central: Louis-
Vile and Nashville; Missouri Pacific;
Frisco; Wabash; Santa Fe; Chicago
Accept PROPOSAL.
About fifty roads were generally
understood to have accepted the set
tlement proposals. with the Balti-
more and Ohio; Chesapeake and Ohio
New York Central lines; Southern
Seaboard air line; Chicago and North
western and Chicago. Milwaukee and
st. Paul, among the larger systems
in the agreement.
w. H. Finley. president of the
Northwestern, and B. B. Green, vice
president of the Milwaukee, ex-
pressed the hope that many of their
shopmen would be back on their jobs
today over the entire systems. The
Northwestern employees. about 10000
shopmen, and the Chicago. Milwaukee
and st. Paul. about $4,000.
FULLEST and fairest consideration"
by the United States Labor Board of
any issues on which the strike was
based was promised by Ben w. Hooper.
chairman of the board, who asserted
the settlement plan was in strict con-
formity with the transportation act.
Speed Up on Injunction.
Meanwhile Attorney General Daugh.
erty's staff of lawyers in the injunc-
tion proceedings before Judge Will
kerson speeded up efforts to complete
their evidence tomorrow.
Samuel Gompers and the executive
council Of the American Federation
Of Labor. at Atlantic City, N. j.,
launched plans for demanding the
impeachment of Attorney General
Dausherty and Judge Wilkerson be-
cause OF the Injunction proceedings.
No objection will be placed in the
way of shoDmen returning to work on
the railroads parties to the settle
ment plan. B. M. Jewell, head of the
railway employees department Of the
american Federation Of Labor. said
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