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HOPE ABANDONED
BY RAIL HEADS.
Prepare to Run Roads With
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Non-Union Help. 49,
WESTERN ROADS DEFIANT
Warn Workers They Will Not Meet
Unions While Walkout Continues.
Other WaIkouts Impending.

Chicago. July 1.-THE third week of
the railway shipments strike opened
with peace negotiations virtually ar a
standstill, following separate confer.
enceS between rail executives. union
heads and railroad board members,
when the differences were described as
Fundamental.
Western carriers issued a virtual
ultimatum to the strikers, asserting
that they will not agree to any plan
inconsistent with decisions of the la.
Dor board, and will not confer with
the strikers while the walkOut cOntin-
ues. The statement, issued by the
western presidents committee on pub
lie relations, placed responsibility fOl
the continuance of the strike on strike
leaders. and apparently left but one
course open for u settlement.
The executives, the statement said
"are perfectly willing to attend an!
meeting. or participate in any hearing
called by the labor board with view
to effecting settlement that would
not nullify, but uphold and carry Out
the boards decisions.
b. NJ. Jewell. head Of the shopmen
indicated that working rules and wag
eS. both based on the boards decisions
must be settled satisfactorily before
he will consent to call off the strike
and take the matter before the labor
board.
Virtually abandoning hope If al
early settlement. many roads. accord
ing to labor board official, are pre-
pared 10 make determined effort Il
reopen their shops with nOn-union EN-
pioyes.
With the carriers apparently deter
mined TO maintain traffic as nearl!
normal as possible, the ranks OF the
strikers were expected to be ugment
ed by walkout of firemen and oilers
while at Cleveland the American Fed
GRAFTON of Railroad Workers have vot
ed to walk out
After conference with Presiden
Harding, E. F. Cradle, head of the
maintenance of way organization, sale
there was no prospect of an immedi
ate authorization of strike of hi:
100000 men. but added that fOrty-eigh
hours might change the situation.
Chicago. the hub of the strike, was
quiet. Jewell announced he would
have nothing to say over the week
end, while labor board mediators ap
parently We're nonplussed by the fun
damental differences"
Federal court orders restraining
strikers from interfering with the peti
riOners continued TO be granted. Tn,
Virginian railroad secured a restrain
ing order at Roanoke, while the Erie
obtained an injunction at Cleveland
and the Pennsylvania railroad obtain
ed an injunction there to cover it:
shops at Toledo. The Baltimore an(
Ohio railroad applied for an injunc
ton at Cleveland, and the Cincinnati
Indianapolis and Western road asked
Il court der at Indianapolis.
Troops were requested at San Der
nardinO, Cal, to protect railroad prop
erty. Disorders occurred at Scranton
Pa, where one man was shot, and a.
Ennis, Texas.
Indication that the strike would
have an early effect on crops was seer
in statements from Fresno, Cal, tina
$500, 100000 worth Of fruit Is endan
gered and from Macon, Ca, that rail
roads have begun to withdraw theil
solicitations from the peach and mel
on districts.
The statement by rail executive:
here said that reports from railway:
in all parts of the country showed
gains in a number Of men in the shop.
since the strike started. The situation
the statement said, was better in east
ern territory than elsewhere.
Strike reports indicated that the ma
tional situation was gradually growing
more serious.
Jewell issued a statement charging
that the labor board 'has been per
suaded to reduce labor costs, on s
theory that the cost of living would
then fall to the new wage level"
This action was actuated, the state
ment continued, by "25 interlockins
railroad and bank directors-the gen
.sal staff of the American junkers-
VINO have been campaigning ever since
che war to put labor in Its place, OF
IN still palmer language, to establish
a system of industrial feudalism."