The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-09-15
SOME ROADS
WONT SIGN
PEACE PACT
Northern Pacific, Great Nor
thern and Many Others
Hesitate to Accept Terms
FEW CARRIERS SIGN
Milwaukee and Northwestern
Among First to Reach
Agreement with Union
Agreement
FEW CARRIERS SIGN

HumDef OIL Lne country biggest rail-
way systems to enter into the War
field -Willard-Jewell plan for ending
theshopmen's strike on the basis of
separate and individual agreements
developed an element Of considerable
uncertainty today over the scope and
effectiveness of the peace program.
While some of the larger systems
had flatly rejected the plan, others
notably the Chicago and Northwest
ern and the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul, had virtually completed
arrangements for restoring strikers
to their former jobs under terms Of
the separate settlement plan.
Negotiations were in progress with
several roads in an effort by shop
crafts system federation official to
effect additional settlements through
I ratification of the plan.
Strike leaders were said to be in.
tent upon addressing communications
to some of. the unwilling roads ask
ing them to reconsider their rejec.
tions.
Close Door to Settlement
Among the larger systems said to
have closed the door against the
settlement plan today were Pennsyl.
vania, Union Pacific, Norfolk and
Western, Southern Pacific, Chicago
and Alton, Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific, Northern Pacific, Great Nor
thern, Chicago, Burlington & Quin-
CIV, Missouri, Kansas and Texas, and
subsidiary lines. About fifty roads
were generally understood to have
accepted the settlement proposals
: with the Baltimore and Ohio, Chesa-
peake and Ohio, New York Central
Lines, Southern, Seaboard Air Line,
Chicago and Northwestern and Chi
!, cago,- Milwaukee and ST., Paul among
the larger systems in the agreerent.
Accept Terms
W. H. Finley, president of the Chi
cago and Northwestern, and B. B.
Grere, vice president Of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul, expressed
the hope many of their shopmen
would be back on their jobs today or
tonight over the entire systems. The
Northwestern employs about $4,000
shopmen and the Chicago, Milwaukee
and St. Paul about 10000.
Meanwhile Attorney General
Daugherty's staff of lawyers in the
Injunction proceedings before Judge
Wilkerson, speeded up efforts to
complete their evidence tomorrow.
New disorders included the bomb
ing Of the home of VIM. G. BrabazoE
an assistant foreman in the Louis
Vile and Nashville railroad shops
at Boyles, Alabama, suburb OF Bir-
mingham. Five members Of the house,
hold we're at home when the house
was wrecked but all escaped injury.
% obstruction will be placed in
the way of shopmen returning TO
work on the railroads parties to The
settlement plan as fast as these
roads and their system federation
chairmen arrange for resumption, b.
Nj. Jewell, head Of the railway en-
ployes' department Of the American
Federation Of Labor, said today IN
denying statements by Fred W.
Rausch, union leader at Topeka
Kansas. Rausch said last night
letter signed by Mr.. Jewell directed
that no man would return to work
until all the roads had signed the
agreement. ,oo,
"such a letter might have been
cent out before the settlement agree
ment was reached" Mr.. jewell sald'
"but it does not apply now"
Hold Conference
A hurried conference between OIL
cials of the department and the gen,
eral ehairmen of the Brothernooo
Of Railroad Clerks, freight handlers
and ticket sellers, was held today az
the labor department in an e11ort "
avert strike among such employees
on the Pennsylvania system.