Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-09-07

,re today as saying that a
majority of the railroads
h a d submitted peace
propositions to the shop
men which would be voted on at
Chicago next Monday. The call for
the shipments meeting at Chicago
was received here today
Would Enjon Enjoiners.
Washington, Sept. with every
public statement from official and la
Dor circles tending to cast doubt up
on reports of negotiations between
railway strikers and executives look
ing to separate settlement of the shop.
mems strike, one important group of
the strikers today struck to prevent
enforcement of the governments
sweeping restraining order issued in
Chicago last Saturday.
The International Brotherhood OF
Electrical Workers, through its pres
ident, filed a petition in the supreme
court in the district of Columbia, for
permanent injunction restraining
local officials from proceedings under
the Chicago order
Policy Committee to Meet.
Chicago, Sept. with the railway
'shopcrafts policy committee of 80
summoned to meet in Chicago next
Monday hope of settlement of the
rail strike was renewed today for the
first time since peace negotiations
were broken off in New York three
weeks ago. Those hopes were found
ed principally on the call for the uh-
ions policy committee meeting and
statements by strike leaders ON the
possibility OF separate agreements
with fifty-two or the class one roads
representing an approximate trackage
of $4,000 miles.
Railroad executives generally Ell
ther denied that peace overtures had
union leaders or declined to COM
ment on rumors of an impending set
tlement. Some insisted the strike
was broken and that peace parleys had
ended with the breakup of the New
York conferences.
The call for the policy committee
meeting issued at Chicago strike head
quarters by John L. Scott secretary
of the railway employees department
OF the American Federation of Labor,
went to the general chairmen of the
shopcrafts organization over the
name of b. NJ. Jewell, head of the
department, whose whereabouts have
remained unknown since the govern
ments strike injunction was granted
to Attorney General Daugherty by
Wilkerson last Friday.
Mr.. Jewell was variously reported
to have been in several eastern cit
les secretly comforting on plans for
settlement of the strike. 1t became
known that he as we'll as other lead
ers Of the shopmens unions had been
in Baltimore.
Officials of the Baltimore & Ohio
road denied knowledge of any con-
ference with Mr.. Jewell or his asso-
ciates.
With the issuance of the call for
the policy committee meeting, Mr..
Jewell was reported to be en- route
to Chicago. The call declared the
meeting was very important.
Denies Conferences.
Washington Sept. There are no
conferences now in progress between
lcders of the railroad strikers and
railroad presidents, and none have
been held since the formal GATHERINGS
in New York last month, it was as
eerted today by J. P. Noonan. chief
of the Brosherhood Of Electrical Work
crs, which is one of the seven rail
unions on national strike.
Washington, Sept. 7,-Attorney-
General Daugherty said today after a
conference with Senator Borah Re-
publican, Idaho, chairman of the SEN
ate labor committee, that the govern
ment would not insist on the clauses
of the Chicago injunction which are
said to curb freedom of speech being
made permanent at the hearing next
| Monday