New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
Bolt Only Can
Halt Slnoprnneln
LIN Settlement
President of c., NJ. & St. p
Railroad Predicts That
Workers Will BE Back
i'm Twenty-four Hours
Terms Are Still Indefinite
Separate Agreements Will
Be Made ON Both Wages
and Seniority, Is Rumor
seeelal Dispatch to, The rrihuna


CHICAGO, Sept. s.--That the shou
crafts strike is settled unless the un-
ions make an unexpected "bolt" from
the leadership of B. M. Jewell, head of
the galway employees in the A. r. of L..
was the prediction to-day of III. E.
Byrams president of the Chicago, Mil
waukee q st. Paul Railway.
speaking for the st. Paul, can saw
that should the plan submitted by us
to Mr.. Jewell be accepted the majority
OF our employees win be back at work
IN twenty-four hours. There will be
no more meetings of the railroad ex-
eeutives. Daniel willard, president of
the Baltimore & Ohio, went back home
last night. He may return early in the
week.
"lt only needed some one trusted by
both sides to act as mediator, and Mr..
Willard very generously gave his time
and ability to the matter He not only
deserves the thanks of the roads and
the men, but of the general public as
we'll.
This separate agreement plan is al
ready IN practice by the railroad broth
erhoods, each road having it's separate
agreement with the brotherhoods. 1t
VIII be new policy fer these particu-
lar unions however.
THE reealcitrant roads did not in
any way object to the rest of Ais set
ting the strike separately with the
unions, because their attitude is that
Inc strike is no longer of any interest
to them"
Settlement Terms Vague
Mr.. Byram said that Mr.. Willard had
conferred with MIR, Jewell and that the
pIan Tor settlement was mutually salts
factory. 1t was intimated that the
friction which disturbed yesterdays
meeting of the executives at the Chi
cage Club was not due to the "oppos-
ing" group objecting to a settlement
with the unions, but was rather caused
by some feeling shown by Mr.. Willard
that these railroads would not meet the
unions half way,
While some of the big Western sys-
TENS, like the Burlington and Northern
Paclfic systems, which originally fol-
lowed Mr.. Willard's leadership, have
apparently broken away since the arac-
ture of the negotiations in New York
more than two weeks ago, and refuse
to negotiate with the strikers, some
smaller roads not represented at the
New York conference, according to a
RAN executive, have joined the Willard
group.
|, While neither side is willing to
oreak its silence, one Of the rail ex-
ecutlves admitted the question of
wages does not enter into Mr.. Will
lards latest proposal, and that the
question of seniority is not entirely
cleared up. 1t is intimated that the
proposal Is really nothing more than a
poilcy of settlement rather than a
statement of terms, and that whatever
separate agreements, based ON the
plan, are made by the individual roads
need not necessarily be uniform. some
roads agreeing to yield more ground
than others.
To Quit Farming Out"
The Railroad Labor BOARD to-day, on
the basis of a decision some time ago
against the Indiana Harbor Belt Rail
road, handed down decisions against
five roads in fifteen cases of old com
plants by labor organizations that the
roads had been letting out work on
contracts. The roads, except in one or
TWO instances, gave up farming out'
OF WORK pIlor to the shopmen's strike,
July l. The Labor Board in the Indi-
ana Harbor case set precedent by
holding that contracting of work
should be abandoned.
The first two days of next week are
expected to be notable so far as the
railroad situation is concerned. Mon
day will witness the hearing of the
Daugherty writ of injunction, which
the Attorney General will endeavor to
have made permanent, when Federal
Judge James II. Wikerson hears the
case.
A vigorous fight on the part of the
government to make permanent the
Daugherty injunction was indicated to-
day. Five truck loads of evidence, CON
sisting of kilograms, photographs, let
ters, statement from 1900 persons
and countless documents were brouebt +
| quietly to Chicago and moved to 4
/ building near the Federal building
where thirty-fve guards are protecting
the material that will be used when
Judge Wilkerson hears the government
| motion. Another half carload of
! similar evidence is said to be on the
way to Chicago
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