Evening star., 1922-07-19
RAIL PEACE HOPES
bob Up AGAIN WITH
GREATER PROMISE
Labor Boards Granting Of
Wage Rehearing Ends
Trackmen's Threat.
ISSUES IN SHOP STRIKE
NARROWED BY SENATOR
Intention to Seek Amendment to
transportation Act, Defining
Living Pay, Clears Air.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. July 19.-Railway strike
peace parleys assumed new and more
important proportions today. with pos
sibility Of the walkout Of 40O,00 main
tenance Of way men virtually removed
by the action Of the Railroad Labor
Board in indicating that 1t would grant
new hearings on the wage question.
It was pointed out that the boards
action in promising rehearings com.
mits the board to nothing it had not
already indicated might reasonably be
expected under the transportation act.
and that although definite assurance
of rehearings was generally received
as a concession to the union men, this
was not to be interpreted as weaken
ing the stand the board has taken from
the outset.
Hope In Senator's Staud.
Senator Cummins' announcement that
he would hold hearings on the trans
portation act. to ascertain how the law
may be amended SO that the living
wage principle would be made clear,
was received as decidedly favorable to
peace. both by rail heads and strike
leaderE Regarding this as one Of the
most important concessions yet offered
the unions. the strike leaders pointed
out that a clear definition of what con-
stitutes living wage seemed in pros
pect. This has been the outstanding
question in wage disputes brought be-
fore the Railroad Labor Board. The
portation act and since frequently
have disputed many of its provisions.
With the wage question thus elm
mated from the dispute, certain rules
affecting overtime pay of the shop
men, and the question of restoration
of seniority rights to men now on
strike were left as about the only
Issues. 1t was not believed that the
latter question would prove a STUN
bling block IN the way Of settlement
OF tho strike. - - -
The Railroad Labor Board was ex-
pected~to give Immediate attention
to the petition of maintenance of
and st. Paul railway for q revision
OF wage scales, the company having
waived its right to thirty-day no.
tice.
Cradle Predicts Peace.
E. F. Cradle, president of the
Maintenance of Way Brotherhood,
was back in Detroit, preparing for
the meeting of the Grand Lodge of
the brotherhood on Friday. He will
report on his meeting here with the
Labor Board and on his conference
Saturday with President Harding.
Before leaving Chicago. Mr. Cradle
80 hA% ,f
his men could be averted and that
the shopmen's strike soon would be
settled.
Only isolated Instances of disorders
marked the strike yesterday. nom
union employe of the Texas and Pa
Shreveport. La, by ten men. An
Atlantic Coast Line engineer was shot
and killed by a guard to whom he had
referred as "scab," at Whining
ton. ". c. Additional troops were
sent from Chicago to relieve those
Denison, Tex. in a message to Gov.
Neff, asked that 2 company Of rangers
be sent to Denison. Three alleged
strike sympathizers were arrested at
Taylor, Tex. on contempt charges.
At Muakogee. Okla, all available po-
two disturbances.
Masked Men Capture Two.
At Superior, Wis, fifty masked men
made captive two foremen Of the
Great Northern railroad shops. The
masked men continued on their ram
page and plot to raid the round
touse at A1louez was feared.
After a meeting at Waco, Tex, rep
resentatives of sixteen unions sent
messages to President Harding, Gov.
Nen and heads of their national
unions, asking that conditions pre-
yailing prior to the strike be restored
Four passenger trains of the Kan
sas City Southern railway were an
nulled. Two of the trains were
operated between Shreveport and
Lake Charles, La, and two between
Shreveport and Texarkana, Ark.
Omcials at Dallas, Tex, said that
an acute shortage Of fuel oil and coal
was likely to develop in Texas within
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