Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-09-15
SEPARATE PEACE
ON SIXTY ROADS,
SAY NEWSPAPERS

Authentic news of the shopmen' 5
strike was not to be had Thursday,
and although the strike was reported
so,.led on 30 or go railroads, the
newsnapers carried stories of the set
iement varying according to extent
of their willingness to tell the truth.
Local shopmen are inclined to be-
Tave the report to be greatly exag-
gerated. and that 1t is propaganda on
fbe part of the railroads to entlee GER
tain weaklings back to work in last
desDerate attempt to break the strike.
Ma word from headquarters has
baen received by Big Four shop Off
cials indicating a change in the strike
situation, and as that road is ineiud-
ed in the list of those reported IN
yolved in the settlement, little cred
ence is given the alleger settlement.
Strikers locally will await the news
from the proper source before re-
turning to work.
AT the Joint meeting of Champaign
and Urbana Federated Shop Crafts
held Thursday morning, the report
was characterized as false, such be-
lief being based upon the oft-repeat-
ed assertion of B. M. Jewell and 9TH
ers that there could be no separate
peace. The strikers were cautioned to
tsit tight" and await developments.
The Illinois Central railroad is not
included in the reported settlement.
The report as printed in the kept
press is substantially as follows:
Railway strike peace virtually has
been declared on approximately one
fourth of the country's 201 class one
roads.
This announcement was made late
yesterday By the railroad shop crafts
general conference committee of nine
ty, which, conyening in the Masonic
temple Monday morning, had been
considering a separate settlement
plan drawn up at secret conferences
held in Baltimore ten days ago.
The strike, presumably, will con-
tinue on other lines.
Old Wages Stipulated.
The agreement, which is yet to be
formally signed by representatives of
the carriers, who have indicated will
ingness to become parties to it, makes
no specific reference to seniority
rights, but expressly stipulates that
all shopmen on these lines shall re-
turn to work at the wages against
which they struck July l, not later
than thirty days after the signing of
this agreement, and it also provides
that the relative standing as between
themselves of men returning to work
and men laid off, furloughed, or on
leave of absence, including general
ehairmen and others who were as of
June 80, 1922, properly on leave OF
absence, will be restored as of June
80, 1922, and they will be called back
to work in that order.
The railroads signing the agree
ment, and their mileage, follow:
Alabama and Vicksburg, l41.5
miles; Baltimore and Ohio, 5,155;
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg,
9S9.7i Chesapeake and Ohio, 2,539;
Chicago and North Western, s,402;
Colorado and Southern, 1,099; Wichi-
ia Valley railway, 1860; Fort Worth
and Denver City, 454; Chicago, In
dianapolis and Louisville, 618; Chi
eaigo' Milwaukee and st. Paul, 1868;
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific,
e'l23; Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis
and Omaha, 1,749; Ell Paso and South
western, 4568; Erie, 2,404; Hooking
valley, $50; Lake Erie and Western,
,,5S; Louisville and Arkansas, 302;
minneapolis and st. Louis, 1850.
-. New York Central lines; Cleveland,
Cincinnati, Chicago and st. Louis;
Michigan Central; New York Central,
Including Boston and Albany; Pitts
0uI[gh and Lake Erie, 1852.
New York, Chicago and st. Louis,
20; Norfolk and Western, 2,19S.S;
Norfolk and Southern, 944; Seabeard
Air line, 1868; Trinity and Brazos
valley, 324; Virginian, 523.5: Wheel
ing and Lake Erie. 511.6; Winston
Salem Southbound, 1907.