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lows:
First. That the railroads instead
Of being bound by the majority action
Of the Association of Railway Ex-
ecutives be permitted to take back
as many Of the strikers as needs of
individual roads dictated. This
would assure jobs to all the strikers
on most of the roads in the country,
particularly in the Southeast and
throughout the West.
Second That the roads ana unions
agree to recognize the seniority rights
Of loyal employees who refused to
strike.
Third. That the seniority status
or returning strikers and so-called
new men, be fixed through agree
ments between unions and manage
ments of individual roads, governed
partly by standards of efficiency of
individual employees in both classes.
Fourth, That all pension rights be
restored to the pre- strike status.
NO official sponsor appeared for this
plan, however. Members of the execu-
tives' committee declined to discuss its
merits and the big four representatives
took a similar attitude.
Washington. Aug. Il. - President
Harding today decided to defer his ad-
dress to Congress on the industrial sit =
uation until tomorrow or n later date
The House. as result Of the President s
decision. adjourned Immediately after
cOnvening.
Word of the Presidents 3 decision was
received by Senator Watson, Of Indiana
member Of the Interstate Commerce
Committee. and one Of the Executive 3
advisers in the rail situation, shortly
before the Senate convened. Similar
information, although not definite, had
been received earlier by other congress
sional leaders. including Representative
Mondell, Of Wyoming, who called at the
White House early in the day.
The President was represented by
those who talked with him to feel that
every effort toward settlement of the
rail strike should be allowed to take
its course before he went before Con :
gress to deliver a report on the Govern
ment's interests in the matter and to
present an outline of the policy decided
upon by the Administration. The effort
toward settlement which the President
was said to have particularly in mind
was the conference in New York today
between representatives of the railroad
executives and chiefs cf the train scrv.
ice employees brothcrhoods.
| Work on the message was continued
| by the President during the morning,
! and IT was said he desired to have /,
in completed form so that he nigh,
present 1t to Congress as soon as he
was convinced an appropriate time had
come.
One of the developments in today,
strike situation was an announcement
| by II. W. Miller. operating vice prcsi
! dent of the Southern Railway, which
has its general headquarters here, that
contingents of workers hired to replace
striking shopmen had begun to arrive at
various points along the Southrrn's
lines. Mr.. Miller said no dilscultics
were being encountered in obtaining
men.
notwithstanding the company $ de.
termination to recruit up our shor
forces" he said, I'VE still are willing
| they get tired of striking they can com,
back to their places just as If they ha,
been on vacation
Disorders at the Southern's shops al
Spencer, y. G., had practically ceased
Mr.. Miller said.
Chicago. Aug. 17.--(By 4. PD-Ar
end TO the strike OF Big -Four trans
portation brotherhoodS on Western
Railroads, an improved outlook foi
day, shootings, bombingS and burning
were high lights in the Nations railway
crisis during the last twenty foul
hours.
Blockadps and tie-ups on the Atchi
son Topekn and Santa Fe, the tnior
Pacific, Western Pacific and Southern
Pacific cleared up when striking train
crews called off their walkont anl
opened the way to immediate rcstora'
tion of traffic on lines which were par
alyzcd by the strike of the Big Four
| brOtherhoOdS.
stranded Santa Fe trains were move,
out of Albuquerque. y. NJ. and train
men at Prescott. Ari2.. notified Santa
Fe officials that strikers would return t.
work. These moves followed earlier
| deyrlopmcntS toward ending the ti"-uI
on the Santa Fr. The Union Pucifir's
traffic knot unravclrd rapidly after
troinmen on the Las Vegas division
called off their strike. Other Western
roads restored transportation activities
TO the basis which had been in effect
since the shopmens strike begun
July |.
with the tram serNlc" S'rlk" bfPHk
ing up In other sections of the coun-
try, tranmen who interrupted traffic
on the Missouri Pacific at Van Buren,
Ark. refused to return to work while
guards remained on duty in the yards
Only trains which wcr" mad" up and
delivered to crews outside the railroad
wards were moved.
Settlement OF the trouble with the
trainmcu resulted in an immediate
movement eastward of fruit shipments
and other pcrishable freight marooncd
In California.
Bombs were thrown at Santa Re
train which left San Bernardino for the
first time in six days, The first bomb
exploded in the railroad yards and two
more were hurled at the passenger %
| the engine wheels spun over oiled rails
in nuliinR out 0f the ~cikyA