Evening star., 1922-07-09
The Story the Week Has Told

them to devise an agency for erecting So
luton Of their diniculties" Mean
while, operations ought to be resumed.
The government. however. has no desire to
participate In merely temporary make
shift. II they cannot reach, salts
factory solution with reasonable promptness
by themselves. "the servants of the American
people will be called to the task"
The Presidents guests separated into
bituminous and anthracite groups for the con-
ference, Secretaries Hoover and Davis joining
the former group and Secretary Fall the
latter. After conferring during three days
without ESQ 'tis said) getting anywhere, the
bituminous conferees adjourned to July To-
The anthracite conferees continued to confer,
but 1t is understood. with little more success.
The American people. sWeitsrins IN th,,: the July
at tsa s ana
will be called on within a day or two to report
success or failure and that: in case Of failure
called to the task" with advice as to the
manner Of its performance.
hearing before itself on June 80 Mr.. Jewell.
head Of the federation Of railroad shopcrafts;
unions and of other unions affected by the
recent wage decisions OF the board. and rep
which had farmed out shop work against de:
cisions of the board. Mr.. Jewell and the chief
executives S Of the shoperafts unions failed TO to
Mr.. Jewell evaded service of a subpoena. but
he sent statement denouncing the boards
recent decisions and defending the strike order
calling out the shopcrafts workers
One Of the main purposes Of the hearing
revocation or suspension of the strike order
calling out the shopmen on July l; but one
agmeent representatives formally announced
the Willingness of their managements to can
1y all the OFFENDING managements. under
stand. were represented Moreover. Mr.
ce-of Workers. declared that q
strike order would not be issued to his men
s On 5uS
That executive council met at Detroit
July g. It would appear that % the referendum
for a strike. While the council was debating
Mr.. Hooper invited it by telephone to con-
cepted and the upshot Of the conference was
an order issued by Mr.. Cradle to the 100000
work under the present wage decision of the
Labor Board under protest. pending efforts to
Board has since been making vigorous efforts
to persuade the union executives (of the sig
or not to issue strike orders. to follow the
lead Of the maintenance-of-wayc chiefs.
Meantime ,, the STRIKE Of the sh9pmsn n ZEN
order was not 100 per cent. as Mr. Jewell
claims , but it was large On the other hand.
tenance men. the fact that the railroads can
carry en- without them and fill their places.
these and other aspects of their situation,
even though not effective to seduce the shop
men from Loyalty to their union. may, it is
widely thought, cause overwhelming pres
sure on their executives to seek quick
commodation Perhaps it is not fantastic to
attribute tendency to violence. already dis
played at the strikers to despair of success.
On June 80 the House of Representatives
adjourned to August Is.
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Miseellaneous-Thirty thousand Hungarian
children assembled at Budapest pier July
1 to bid farewell to Capt. James A. Pedlow,
American Red Cross commissioner in Hungary,
and the remaining members of his staff
their departure from Hungary. their mission
complete.
The Japanese garrison has evacuated Han
kow. China
DR.. Serge voronoff is hampered in his work
of transplanting chimpanzee glands to human
bodies by lack of enough chimpanzees The
chimpanzee is the only animal that can be
used for that purpose. ChimpanZee farms
might be a paying proposition.