Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-08-23
PREDICTIONS Of
RAIL PEACE: ARE
ALL BUNk-L0REE
Unexpected Arrival of Three
Executives From Europe
May Influence the Action
at Conference.

New York, Aug. 22.-Four sur
prise factors entered into the rail
strike situation today, any one of
which. according to representa-
tives of roads and brotherhood
officials may vitality influence the
action of the Association of Rail-
way Executives, when it meets to-
morrow to consider peace pro-
posals or mediation with the big
five brotherhoods. They were:
/. The announcement that
presidents of three eastern west
ern roads, Samuel Rea of the
Pennsylvania; E. e. LOOMS of
the Lehigh Valley, and William
Bester, of the Jersey Central,
were expected to arrive from Eu-
rope on the Majestic in time to
participate in the conference of
the Association of Railway Exec
utives.
2. The granting by three large
steel corporations of 20 per cent
increased wage to their several
hundred thousand day laborers.
3. Assertion by l.. +. Loree,
president of the Delaware and
Hudson, and chairman of the
eastern presidents conference,
that predictions of a strike set
Element and peace in the industry
were "all bunk"
4. Announcement that several
brotherhood chiefs are en- route
from the west with practical pro-
posals for settlement of the shop
crafts strike, which they will sub
NIT to rail executives if all other
peace advances fail.
Comment Is Withheld
Heads of the railway executives
refused to comment on the uneX-
pected arrival of the three eastern
Their return on the
same boat, and in the midst of
the present crisis, was admittedly
however especially
since their respective vice presi-
dents have been the nucleus of
the group which, in conferences
Of the national association, has
fought against any
peace plan which included rein
statement of strikers with senior
lty rights unimpaired.
The decision of the steel cor
porations to raise the wages OF
laborers, announced just "a hours
prior to the scheduled meeting of
the executives, was hailed by the
strikers as a point in their favor
1t not only justified their refusal
TO accept wage cuts fixed by the
railroad labor board. they said
but was ample proof of an i'm
pending industrial boom which
would put the railroads, with
their thousands of bad order cars,
more than ever in need of their
Did repair forces.
This wage increase will put
considerable fire into the veins
OF railroad labor" declared
David Williams, secretary of
the eastern strike committee.
The railroad men will find il
hard to understand why he
gets $2.75 n day when he could
get $500 for the same work
I'm the steel mills.
IF the railroads don't settle
With the shopmen, it will be doubly
difficult for them to hold the un-
skilled crafts in line
Offer Numerous Reasons.
Rail heads refrained from dis
,ussion of the possible effects of |
he steel companies move on rail
Itrike negotiations. They were,
nevertheless, quick to offer numer- |
'us reasons why the steel industry |
hould grant their men a raise at |
his critical stage.
One was that some of the steel
bankers who also are |
arge investors in the railroads took
uch means of making untenable |
he position steadfastly maintained |
" the eastern "die hards," headed |
" l.. f. Loree. that the strike be
flowed to continue "as a finish |
light" rather than II be settled by I
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