The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-07-28
Belief Is Expressed That
Railroad Workers Will
Agree To Proposals If
| Approved By r al !
J Heads At the Confer
nee In New York Next
esday

Washington, July 28-(By The AS
sociated Press. s.)-Three proposals
for the immediate ending of the rail
road strike have been submitted to
representatives of the railroad exc.
cutives and labor unions by President
Harding, according to information OBJ
tanned today from administration ad-
visers who talked with the execu-
tive.
The three proposals, all hingeing on
various plans for adjusting the EN-
ployes seniority rights, will be sub
mitted, it was said to the execu
tives meeting in New York Tuesday
and to an employees conference in
Chicago td be arranged by B. Nj. Jew
ell, the shopmen's leader.
Outside railroad contracting. It
was said, would be abandoned by the
railroads under each of the three
proposals.
One of the proposals, according to
those claiming to have information
of the Presidents suggestions. would
be for the railroads to waive the sen
iOrity question and take all strikers
back to work; another was said to
be to give loyal men who have re
manned at work prior seniority rights
over strikers, and the third was for
separate adjustment of the seniority
dispute by each road with its own
employees through joint committees
to be appointed.
viii Stay In Washington.
Washington, July 2S.-With tenta-
tive proposals for settlement of the
oh
after conferences between President
Harding and labor leaders, the situa-
ton was expected today to remain
more or less at status quo pending
the meeting of railroad executives to
be called in New York next Tues
day.
An announcement that executives of
15S major roads of the country would
be brought together on that date to
consider plan for settling the strike
was made by T. Dewitt Cuyler, chair
man of the Association of Railway Ex
ecutives, after conference with Pres
ident Harding last night, his second
visit to the White House during the
day the rest of which the President
devoted almost exclusively to confer
ences with officials of the shopmens
union, headed by B. M. Jewell.
Although union officials continued
to withhold comment today in their
White House conferences and details
Of the tentative proposals for a set
tlement of the strike had not been
revealed, indication that hopeful
progress has been made was seen to-
day in the fact that they were remain
ing here instead of returning to Chi
cago last night as originally planned
1t was believed they intended to stay
Pfh Washington pending the outcome of
the Railway Executives meeting on
Tuesday.
While Mr.. Cuyler, in announcing
that the rail head had been called to-
gether, was emphatic in the statement
that mo definite basis" for a strike
settlement was ready to be placed be-
fore them, 1t was generally understood
today that at least a tentative plan
had resulted from the conferences be-
tween the union officials and that it
had reference to the seniority issue,
now regarded as the one remaining
obstacle to a conclusion of the strike.
1t was understood also that the Presi-
dent urged in his conferences with
Mr. Cuyler that the railroads agree to
the Union demands for the restoration
OF seniority rights to strikers
Meanwhile the opposition of Mr..
Jewell to a settlement OF the strike
on the Baltimore and Ohio, at least
until the outcome of efforts at a gen.
eral settlement, is said to have ended
all prospect of settlement with for
mer employees of that road on the
pending company proposals. The pro-
posals in the meantime are being
studied by officials.
Developments here in the coal strike
situation in the last twenty-four hours
include the statement of the officers
of the National Coal Association that
they had been authorized by Alfred
M. Ogle, president of that organiza-
ton, to deny any reports that a meet
ing of operators of the Central Com
petitive Field" was in prospect to
consider a settlement In the matter
of coal supply and distribution, the
railroad reports showed a substantial
increase in coal loading at the mines
last Monday as compared with days of
the preceding week while several
promises of cooperation were received
by Secretary Hoover from state gov
ernors in response to his kilograms
asking the organization of state emer-