, 1922-07-13
Maintenance of Way Men Post
pone Strike and Shopmen
May Return to Work.
CHANCE FOR A COMPROMISE
President H%ardine's Utterances on the
Industrial Situation-Irlsh Repub-
Leans, Routed in Dublin, Still
Fiehting-Russia's Amaz-
ing Budget Submitted
to the Hague
Conference.
BY EDWARD W. PIcKARD.

I ABOR troubles, present and pros
IL p%ective, continue to absorb much
of the interest of the American public.
The railway shopmen are out-prac-
tically all of them, according to b. NJ.
Jewell, head of the six federated shop
crafts; not nearly all of them, accord
Ing to the railway executives. The
maintenance of way workers, who
were expected to strike last week, are
still at work. Il. +. Cradle, president
of their brotherhood, and six members
of his executive council, held an all
day conference with the members of
the railway labor board and then is
sued a statement saying they had con-
cluded at is not wise for our men,
bership to leave the service of the
carriers until every resource has been
exhausted that affords hope of "A peace
full adjustment" The chairman on
each carrier is to take up at once with
the management all grievances and
controversies and such as cannot be
adjusted are TO be taken before the
labor board. Pending these efforts at
peaceful settlement the men are to
continue work under the present wage
decision of the labor board under
protest.
Mr.. Jewell celebrated his Fourth of
July by putting forth a long statement
in which he bitterly arralgned the
labor board because 1t had 'outlawed'
the striking shopmen. He declared the
board had outlawed itself as the
friend of the unions and had adopted
a tragic attitude In attempting to COM
mel American workers to accept Il
wage scale below decent living True,
the board had in effect declared the
strikers outlawed and had invited re-
cruits to fill their places. promising
them protection and urging them to
form Il new shipments union within
the American Federation of Labor.
But In Il day or two both Mr.. Jewell
and Chairman Hooper Of the board
became milder and the peace prospects
frightened somewhat. The former
said he was not averse to dealing with
any authorized person on any reason
able basis and the latter issued "A
statement in which he undertook to
show That the board was protecting
the interests of the striking sh.pmen
by advising carriers against contract
ing ont shop work. and also wrote n
letter to Mr.. Jewell repudlatlng the
charge Of injustice on the part Of the
board and concluding;
81 am set quite hopeful that your
organization will recover their equl-
lihrlum and discern that it is vastly
better for them to go along with the
railroad labor board, patiently when IL
makes mistakes, but confidently at all.
times that IL profoundly desires to do
,ustlce TO the man, the carriers. and
the public, without fear. favor or
Affection"
Toward the end Of the week w. l..
McNcnlmnn, one OF the labor members
of the board. held conferences with
the heads Of tie railway clerks and
freight handlers. and Il was predicted
that those unions would follow the
example set by the maintenance of
way men.
Though most disorders last week
due 10 the shopmcn's strike were of
minor importance. reports rcnchcd
Washington n increasing numbers that
strikers we're Interfering with the dis
pntch of the United States mails in
various parts Of the country. The nd
min~lsiratlon is disposed and prepared
10 deal vigorously with any persons
who hamper the movement of the
mails. P~ostofice inspectors were sent