Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-07-13
CHAIRMAN HO0PER'S
SUGGESTION GIVEN
NE EGAT|VE REPLY
Executives Assert They
Will Act Only Through
Labor Board.
REACH AGREEMENT
WITH BIG FOUR CHIEFS
Railroads Will Not Require
Other Crafts TO Do
Shop Work.
OUTBREAKS ARE NUMEROUS
CIanhes Between Strike Sympathixerrs.
Guards and Murshnis on
Increase.
REACH AGREEMENT
WITH BIG FOUR CHIEFS
OUTBREAKS ARE NUMEROUS
CIaBhcs Between Strike Sympathixerr..
Guards md Mnrshnis on
Increase.
tBy Associated Presu.l


CHICAGO. July l2-while nAtiy
refusing to meet the leaders Of 4oo,-
600 striking shopmen to discuss
peace proposals, railway executives
tonight left open tho door for a set-
Element Of the strike through thsi
United States Railroad Labor Board
Immediately after reaching an
agreement with tho heads of tho -b!S
four" brotherhoods not to require
their members to do any Of a peace
program submitted to them hy Ben
w. Hooper, chairman OF the Labor
Board. after conference with q. sI.
Jewell. head OF tho striking shopDen~t
To Stop Objectionable Practices.
The agreement was reached at Il
conference of Representatives OF tho
brotherhoods at the ofiaoe OF Sam
uel NJ. FELTON,. president OF the CHS
caso. and Great Western Railway. He
said the roads would be notified to
stop the practices to which the
brotherhoods objected
The executives answer to Chair
man Hooper asserted that the strike
was called In defiance OF tho board.
and that therefore any conference DO.
tweenn the executives and the
strikers would not be permissible or
permissible or tolerable."
The prompt recall OF the strike
order" the letter added, however,
would permit the resumption OF for
mer methods of conference and per-
NIT the consideration of any matters
which representatives OF employees
might desire to submit"
''It Means FIatIy, No"
1T means flatly. no." declared Mr..
FELTON, when asked regarding. the
decision reached by the executives
as he left the conference room.
1T may be final. but It's only hnal
today" declared Mr.. Jewell when the
text OF the letter was read to hom
over the telephone. He refused fur
ther comment. dclaring that could
not speak until he had heard from.
Mr.. Hooper. who had opened nego-
tiations with him.
In railway circles the belief was
expressed that the mere opening of
negotiations was long step toward
a peaceful settlement and hat the
moves OF the day resulted in throw
Ing the case back into the lap o- the
labor board In the exact position in
which It had rested when Mr.. Jewell
had allowed a strike order - go
Ito effect July 1. after ignoring a
summons TO appear before tho board
with tho railway executives and ex-
plain his action. He later declared.
however. action was due TO the fac.
that the meeting was held too lats
to allow him to withdraw his strike
order and that to have attempted to
do so would have resulted IN chaos
and possible bloodshed
Shipments Program Outlined.
Authoritative reports declare that
tho shipments program for settlement
of the strike include an agreement to
abolish the farming out OF snop work
to contractors. the revision OF pay
schedules In respect to overtime, per-
mission for rehearinE Of tho whole
wage controversy by the labor board
and the creation by the railways OF
boards OF adjustment provided for In
the transportation act.
Railway men asserted that the
roads practically had all agreed to
stop the practice OF outside contracts
ms on orders from the labor board,
and tho belief also was expressed
that the question OF overtime would
mot be permitted to stand in tho way
sof settlement when the conferences
stage was reached.
Outbreaks on Incrense.
Meanwhile outbreaks betwso
strike sympathizers. railway guards
and Federal marshals were reported
in increasing numbers and snnuI-
ment OF trains continued in many
sections OF the country.