The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-09-20
END OF RAIL
STRIKE IS NOT.
YET IN SIGHT
Strikers Demanding Condi-
tions Not Specified in the
Baltimore Agreement

!
tions Not Specified in the
Baltimore Agreement
! Chicago. Sept. II (By the As
ciated Press) With the shopmen's
| peace plan threatened by outbreaks
5due apparently to n1isunderstand-
| ings and with the New York Cen
| trail and the Southern, railway an
lnouncing their failure to reach
agreements with the strikers, roads
not participating in Baltimore ne
gotiations reported a return to
normal operation Of their shops
tonight.
/ One of the larger lines mentioned
lin connection with memorandum
OF agreement adopted by the shop
crafts general policy committee
! of. SO here Wednesday with the OBJ
iject Of ending the countrywide
strike through separate agreements
with individual roads, the Rock
Island and the New York Central
il1ad definitely announced a failure
to reach an agreement and con-
Iferences of the Southern with un-
! ion leaders had been no more sue
cessfuI as the strik- uttered on it's
I12th week.
! In the case Of the New York
fCentral, statement was issued by
| the road expressing willingness
i:to fulfill the memorandum Of
agreement reached at Baltimore at
conferences between 8. NJ. jewell,
head of the strikers. and represent
atives of certain of the carriers.
but it was asserted that represent
Eatives of the shop crafts attempted
to interjeet questions not mention
led in. the text and clearly outside
Ethe agreement insisting that these
inatters be included. The road
Ealso announced it would continue
Ito employ men to fill existing va
I.cancies in it's shop force, adding
that at present 1t had 32,951 men
at work compared with normal
of .35,1s2.
The same misunderstanding
resulted in disturbances yesterday
when strikers begen to work here
! in, the shops at the Northwestern
and the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul. In some cases the men We're
reported to Lave demanded that
non-union workers be dismissed
land in others that their striking
lforemen be reinstated. Today Of
.fcials Of the Northwestern an
lnounced that they expected 1900
lof the strikers to return to work
tomorrow morning. This number
would be in addition to the non
union men, estimated to number
about 60 per cent. of the normal
force. More than 15,80e men were
expected back on the Chicago, Mil
iwaukee & st. Paul. AT the same
time railway executives who have
refused to come in under the Bal
tinaore plan reiterated that they are
lin way of recruiting full shop
forces, and that the settlement talk
had resulted in large numbers OF
men returning to work independ-
emily of any action taken by the
Iunion leaders. Many of non-set-
tfennent roads were said to have
forces ranging from IS to 100 per
cent. normal. These roads have
formed new organizations to sup
plant the striking shop crafts.
Among the roads which have an
nounced agreements with their
Ishopmcn Independently of the un-
ion are the Santa Fe, PennsyIya-
MIA, Union Pacific, the Burlington,
the Illinois Central and the Chiea-
go, & Alton. W. G. Bierd, one of
the two receivers for the Alton, is
sued statement formally an
nouncing terms under which strik-
ing employees had been invited to
return to work. 1t expressly stip-
uIates that they shall return as
new employees"
The invitation is extended to the
former shopmen with the excep-
ton of those barred from reem-
ployment by their direct violation
Of rules or fragrant insubordina-
ton and such men as have been
guilty Of extreme violence during
the period of the strike
The strikers were offered their
former standing as between them
selves" That is. they were to take
seniority rank beneath new men
and those who refused to join the
walkout.
Mr.. Jewell departed early tonight
for New York, where he said he
would enter into conferences with
the New York Central officials on
Tuesday in the expectation OF
reaching a speedy agreement un-
der the terms of the Baltimore
plan. At union headquarters it
was said only trivial differences
prevented the signing of a sepa-
rate peace with that road on Sat
urday. These differences, it was
said. would be cleared away by
submitting them to the arbitration
board provided for in the Baiti-
more plan.
Accordino To tho ,1nion leaders