The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-09-27
SH0PMEN WILL
RETURN TO WORK
SENIORITY QUESTION is NOT
MENTIONED IN AGREEMENT
REACHED AT MEETING
Dispute Over Standing of Men Will
Be Settled by Adjustment Board
Made up Of Workers
And Executives

Members Of the shop
crafts policy committee, who Wednes-
day approved peace plans for ending
the railroad strike, through separate
Thursday began separate settlement
negotiations under terms of the agree.
nent.
Instructions to various system fed.
Grafton officials to enter signatory
negotiations and arrange agreements
with their roads, were sent out from
union headquarters by b. M. Jewell,
chief strikeleader, and head of the
railway employees department of the
American Federation of Labor.
Policy committee members scatter.
ed to their respective baliwicks soon
after the settlement plan was adopted.
Railroad systems counted among
| those expected to sign the agreement
| Immediately or soon were said to num-
Der between 80 and 60 of the 2O2
class ! roads of the country.
The mileage affected Thursday was
estimated at about $4,000 Of the $780,
900 miles of trackage in the United
States.
The text of instructions to Off
Gals of system declarations would re-
main confidential, Mr.. Jewell said. He
said also that union leaders would not
make public at this time list of the
roads which agreed because it will
probably be augmented by new sign
ers as the result of continuous SER
les of conferences with roads not al
ready in the agreement.
Under the terms of the peace plan,
shopmen are to return to work under
wage scales prescribed by the United
States railroad labor board effective
July 1, the date the strike began in
protest against the boards decisions.
The question of seniority which
proved to be the chief barrier to an
earlier settlement, was not specifical-
ly mentioned in the agreement. The
agreement made no mention either
Of working system or the contract
system for farming out" shop work
which with the wage controversy were
the original issues in the strike.
Disputes over the relative standing,
Of employees, and new disputes which
might arise as outgrowths of the
strike, shall under the peace terms,
are referred to adjustment boards COM
posed Of representatives of the car
riers and their employees if the dis
putes can not be settled as an in
dividual matter between an employee
and his road.
The agreement requires the sigma
tory roads to find places for all re-
turned strikers within 80 days after it
becomes available. Strikers who have
committed acts of violence are not
protected in the agreement to restore
former jobs to employees.
Much of the credit for effecting sep.
arate settlements was given by the
shop crafts executive council to S.
Davies Warfield, president of the Sea-
board Air Line and head of rail-
road securities company, said to con.
troll $4,000, 100000 of stock. Confer
ences between Mr.. Warfield, Mr.. Jew
ell and Daniel Willard, president of
the Baltimore and Ohio, in Baltimore,
early this month, opened the way to
the agreement. 1t was Mr.. Warfield
who stuck to the finish for virtually
this kind Of settlement in the con-
ferences at New York last month be-
tween railway executives and chiefs
of the transportation brotherhoods,
the latter acting as meditators for the
shopcrafts.
Among the larger systems said to
be included in the rail peace agree
ment ut the start were:
The New York Central lines and
subsidiaries, including the Michigan
Central and Big Four: Chicago ans.
and subsidiaries; Balti.
more and Ohio; Seaboard Air Line
Southern railway Chesapeake and
Ohio, and the Monon.