Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-09-07
Shop War Clouds Split By
Rift OF Peace--Jewell Calls
For Chicago Meeting Monday
(ey International News service)

Chicago, Sept. = The dark
clouds of destructive labor-capital
war OF shopmen and railroads
which threatened TO involve all
road brotherhoods and even go as
far as to bring about a general Ia.
Dor strike were split with widen
ing rift OF peace today.
OfAeial call for a meeting Of
shop crafts policy committee OF 80
to vote on the proposed plan Of
settlement had gone to the mem
bers and decks were being cleared
for action The meeting will be
held Monday morning at ten
O'Clock at the Sheridan-Plaza hotel
here.
The order signed by B. N. Jew
ell. president Of the shipments
organization and sent out by John
Scott. secretary, read;
BY authority vested in me as
President of the railway employees
department. American Federation
Of Labor. ! hereby call a meeting
of the policy committee for ten
o'clock Monday morning at the
sheridan-Plaza hotel, Chicago. and
request that you attend"
Three Divisions Represented
The policy committee. which
consists Of 90 men representing
three divisions throughout the Uni
ted States has the power to &C
cept propositions which will end
the national strike.
The kilograms were sent out
after a long distance conversation
between B. NJ. Jewell and John
Scott. Jewell, somewhere in the
east, ordered Scott to summon
three divisional committees to re-
port in Chicago without fail.
The exact details Of the propo-
sition the leader of the striking
shopmen will submit were I'M
known here for since JEWELS trip
to the east there has been no com
munication with his officials and
they are in the dark as to peace
plans.
Meeting Very Important
That the meeting on Monday will
be OF the greatest moment in the
industrial crisis that now con
fronts not only the nation but all
organized labor, is known from the
fact that Jewell has cut short his
stay in the east and will return to
Chicago promptly, to confer with
his executive council.
Jewell was due to arrive in Chi
cago on Monday. Instead, simultan-
eously with the kilograms to the
divisional committees. kilograms
were also sent out to his executive
council, ordering them to be in
Chicago tomorrow to meet Jewell
The council will 60 into execu-
tive session on Saturday TO con-
slider the results of JEWELS nego-
tiations in the east, and lay plans
for the meeting on Monday.
May End Strike
The meeting which will deter
mine what is believed TO be the
end Of the strike, is scheduled to
take place at almost the same hour
that Attorney General Daugherty
will plead before Judge Wilkerson
for making the injunction against
the strikers permanent.
EGNOI Sb!t dCllJG W tIC PC--N@
committee on Mr.. JEWELS propos-
ais would mean an almost immedi
ate end Of the strike, for no vote
OF the strikers is necessary and
Jewell S understood to have ar
ranged most Of the important de-
tails of a settlement during his
trip in the east.
Secretary Scott, after his tele-
phone talk with Jewell over the
meeting to be held Monday said
the shop craft leaders were in
censed over reports that they had
attempted to dodge service of the
Daugherty injunction.
Formal publication in newspap-
ers of the injunction constitutes
legal service" Scott said The
plans will go right ahead without
any one paying any attention to
tie injunction"