New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-25
Both Sides See
Folly i'm Finish
Rail Struggle
Three Weeks Strike Shows
Comparative Power and
Eventual Os1Gcorne Is Be-
coming Plain TO Leaders
Eyes Turn to Washington
Disposition Toward Settle
rnent Before Losses Are
Too Heavy Is Growing

Inc view that the stflke OF rail-
road shcpmen has gone far enough
now TO give definite idea Of the com
parative strength Of the respective
parties to the struggle was expressed
by both company executives and union
leaders yesterday afternoon, and in
consequence there seemed to be n
growing feeling that it ia foolish to
prolong the struggle to the exhaustion
point. Officers Of the railroads ex-
pressed the view Saturday that the
government should settle the dispute
before the losses become too great,
and the union chiefs joined in that
opinion yesterday.
Strikers and carriers agreed on no
point other than the folly of a fight
to the finish, but this was regarded as
the paramount issue Veterans of
former walkouts pointed out that both
sides are in possession OF the same
facts and can see practically the same
outcome looming ahead Of the strike,
and consequently they considered it of
small moment that neither side is yet
willing to admit that it will have to
make concessions. The mere fact that
their eyes are beginning TO turn
toward Washington, even though de-
began, seems to them a most encour-
aging sign that the end is in sight.
Outward Defiance Maintained
AS for the defiant attitude main
tanned in both camps yesterday, there
certainly was no doubt. The carriers
continued to talk of forming company
unions to take the place Of the organi-
cations which ""e now out, repeated
their stand IT, seniority issue, the
stumbling b Tor the Chicago CON
ferences, al 1nounced improvement
in their s..-5 The unions replied
that the roads must be hard hit If
they are unable to keep their limited
trains and perishable freight moving
on time, and gave out long list of
new delays.
1.-THE possibility of the strikers
tying up the eastern railways has
passed" was the announcement made
at the close of conference of local
company executives at the Delaware &
Hudson Offices in the afternoon.
There are now 8e,Ao4 shopmen at
work on these lines, as against 49,
e72 the day. before the strike, and at
that time the carriers were working
men on part time to furnish employ
ment for as many workers as possible.
Furthermore, one willing mechanic
now does as much work as was done bv
several shopmen under the old
routine"
The strikers came back with one of
the most imposing delay reports which
they have yet given out, report which
included the statement that the
Twentieth Century missed a. smash-un
near Harmon by twenty feet Sunday
morning, when a milk train on a
parallel track jumped the rails because
CT an alleged defective truck. The
twenty-hour train, according to the
union heads, pulled up just in time to
AVOID crashing into one of the cars
piled on its right of way.
Albany Train Three Hours Late
The report also states that local
which left Albany at $50 Sunday
morning arrived three hours late after
developing two hotboxes and having
to wait at Poughkeepsie while three
broken brake shoes were repaired.
IRAN 70 was said to have been delayed
Two hours and ten minutes by lack
of air pressure, which became so seri-
Gus that the signal engineer refused
to continue the run. Train Is was
reported as more than three hours
late here after having to wait ffty
minutes in Buffalo for a locomotive.
Delays running as high as eight
hours occurred on the New Haven YES
terday, but these, the company ey-
planned, as results of a storm near
providence, which washed seven feet
OF gravel onto the tracks at one point.
On the Long Island train from the
hockaways, due here at STA, was
stalled Tor forty minutes in the tunnel
under the East River in the morning.
piling up score of trains behind s.
John G. Walber, spokesman for the
roads, admitted that the rolling stock
all over the country was below the
usual repair standard when the strike
began, but added that this was because
at the then existing wage scale. the
carriers could not afford to make re-
pairs not Immediately necessary. He
also made guarded admissions of Grain
service dislocation, but on this point
ne declared the policy Of the roads to
be one of silence.
Machinists Loyal to Roads
From the point of view of the COM
panles the most encouraging an
nouncements were Mr.. Walbers state
menu that the machinists in the Sche-
nectady plant of the American Loco
motlVe works voted three to one last
week against refusing to handle renair
>NNN">%AJ why w sIlS S0OQnlen. and
the report in shipping circles that me-
gotiatlons are under way for having
repair work done in shipbuildine
plants, many of which are said to he
we'll equipped for this type of work
Inc New Haven already has closed a
deal which will keep 500 men busy in
the Groton Iron Works, at New Ion
don, and half dozen other concerns
are said to be ready to take on SIM
liar contracts.
The only apparent hope of rein
torcements held out by the unions was
tne announcement that strike ballots
nave been distributed to 5000 New
Haven clerks.
As for violence, Governor Miller or
dered state troopers to Hornell after
!. demonstration OF several hundred
Erie strikers before the CITY Hall
there while three railroad guards were
pelng, arraigned inside on charge of
n. aa,nsiaaghter in connection with the
Filling of striker named Ardiduini
sunday. The Court held all three men
under $4,000 bail for hearing An