New-York tribune., 1922-07-26

their shop strength as q Joree-Atter-
bury effort to soft pedal on the inn
portance Of the wal-out in order to
prevent government action, and cited
the carriers attempts to have repairs
made in outside plants and the alleged
impairment of transportation to sup
port the charge.
The roads came back through their
spokesman John G. Walbes, with a
reiteration of their estimates and the
announcement that they are ready
to prove that third Of their force
are made up Of strikers who have mi
grated and taken work under assumed
names. Mr.. Waiher declared a settle
ment with the strikers as an organiza-
tion unthinkable in the light Of the
present attitude of the carriers. and
the Pennsylvania issued report Of
increased shop forces, record traffic,
and almost 100 per cent con time per
formance calculated to show its i'm
munity from the difficulties caused by
the strike.
Yesterdays union report of delays
mentioned no ,ateness on the Penn
sylvania Monday greater than thirty
three minutes, hut the shopmen made
up for this by announcing that Sea-
board Air Line express arrived at the
Pennsylvania station here Monday
morning more than eighteen hours late,
Lehlgh Valley express two hours and
twentyfour minutes behind time. and
an Atlantic Coast Line train an hour
and twenty minues overdue. The de
moralizaton on the New Haven, at
tributed by the company to storm
Sunday night, was reported as continu-
ing yesterday and eight New York
Central trains Monday were said to
n o1
hour and a half. Among these were
the Twentieth Century and the VOL
VERNE.
One alleged New York Central mis-
hap blamed on defective equipment,
according to the unions, narrowly
missed causing r, serious loss Of life
Train No 40 incoming to-day"
says the strikers report, "hit an ex-
press truck on the Yonkers platform
while running fifty miles an nour TO
make UP time. The fouled truck
smashed an upright and ripped up
twenty feet Of the platform flooring.
This accident was due to some projec-
tion on the train due to inadequate
inspection. The station platform is
usually crowded with commuters at
the time al which the accident oc-
cured but local had just passed and
! taken them away"
From other labor sources came the
statement that twenty-five Erie locomo
tives have broken down within the last
few days. presumably in addition to the
siXtyone already mentioned by the
strikers. Two Of the breakdowns were
said to have derailed the locomotives,
and others were reported as almost
equally dangerous. One train delay Of
three hours in leaving Jersey City was
cited
Conditions portrayed by the strikers
as existing on the West Shore were
worse than those charged 10 other
roads. Monday afternoon, according to
the union reports, eleven Communication
trains leaving Weehawken after 2:3O
were delayed from 10 TO lis minutes
first by two breakdow of No 13, and
secondly because a short freight failed
to make the grade at Bogota. The
eleven trains. the strikers aver. finally
pulled into Dumont in continuous
STRING after twelve mile run.
-Four trains. the report adds, were
annulled for lack of engines on Mon
day and six others were an hour and q
half late in leaving Weehawken for
the same reason.