New-York tribune., 1922-09-14
Harding Very Much Crat-
flied Over Outcome; /;
Davis Confident Remain
ing Carriers Will Agree
10000 Miles Are
Included i'm Pact
Opening of Trunk Sys-
tems Assured and Full
Clean-Up Is Expected

from 1he Irtoun6'5 WnShfnGfos Bureau
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.-There is
genuine jubilation tonight among Ad-
ministration officials as the result of
the announcement in Chicago that the
railroad unions policy committee has
authorized Bert M. Jewell to negotiate
individual peace agreements with the
railroads. Immediately after Secre-
tary Of Labor Davis received confden-
tial advices late this afternoon on the
developments he called at the White
House and personally notified President
Harding. 1t was said that the Presi-
dent was Every much gratifed," for it
is understood here that about sixty-fve
roads are prepared to settle with the
strikers within week.
The Labor Department was informed
that among the larger roads that will
come in Immediately are the New York
Central, Norfolk g. Western, Baltimore
& Ohio, Southern, Milwaukee & st.
Paul, Atlantic Coast Line, Wheeling &
Lake Erie, Seaboard Air Line and the
Erie.
A total mileage of between $4,000 and
$4,000 miles is represented by the roads
that are said to be ready to meet the
unions.
An early and complete cleanup of
the entire railroad labor dispute was
the general prediction of government
officials, who were almost unanimous in
declaring it "the beginning Of genu
inc settlement all along the line"
Davis Very Optimistic
"I'm very optimistic as q result of
the news from Chicago; in fact, ! might
say I'm president of the optimists' club
so far as speedy settlement Of the rail-
road strike Is concerned" said Secre-
tary Davis. =
From the information we had to-
day at the department it means, in my
opinion, that transportation will be
opened UP fullps from North to South
and from East to West By that
mean the great transcontinental and
main lines"
Secretary Davis said that he conf
IDENTIFY expected that settlements will
progress along about the same lines as
did the final successful negotiations in
ending the coal strike.
"In the coal strike important agree
ments finally we're obtained which
formed the basis on which other opera
tors subsequently came in," he ex-
of the action to-day of the policy COM
mittee we shall soon see settlements
with many roads, including some of the
larger systems, which also will form q
basis upon which the whole of the
trouble will speedily be cleared up"
Secretary Davis in formal state
ment said:
i american industry has overcome the
last obstacle in the way of the great
est economic revival the nation has
ever known. With the settlement of
the strike of 100000 railway shop
craftsmen assured, the whole industrial
machinery of the country is ready for
forward movement unprecedented in
our economic history.
Miners Already at Work
s'The disturbance in the bituminous
and anthracite coal mining industries
are in the past, and the 100000 coal
miners of the country are back at
work. Our representatives in New
England have advised me to-day that
in the textile workers strike there set
Elements are rapidly enabling the mills
to resume operations.
"These three great industrial dis
putes have been the only hindrances to
The nation in it's rapid recovery from
the industrial depression which we
faced year ago. With them out of
the way progress toward prosperity
will be swift and sure.
"To-day there are fewer strikers in
America than there have been in years.
The commissioners of conciliation of
the Department of Labor are using
their good Offices in only thirty--four
pending industrial disputes involving
some 10000 men. Of these cases strikes
have been withheld in fourteen pend
ing our mediatory efforts.
"The American workman faces q
period of plentiful employment. We
have put back to work the millions of
idle employees who were seeking jobs
year ago. We have succeeded in
avoiding drastic reduction in the
high wages which obtained before the
period Of depression and we have
kept the general wage level within a
few per cent Of what it was at it's
highest
industrial strife has been our great
est evil during the struggle for indus
trial rehabilitation and against wage
panic.