Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-02
RAILlEXECUTIvEs REFUSE
 TO ACCEPT PRESIDENTS PLAN

New York. Aug. 1.-(By the A P.)-- The unanimous refusal of the American Association of Railway Executives to accept President aHrding's plan for set tlement of the rail shop crafts strike was contained in the following message, telegraphed to the White House tonight:
 Resolved Q)-That we accept recom- mendation of the president, reading as follows:
 |" First, railway managers and work men are to agree to recognize the valid- ity of all decisions of the railroad labor board, and to faithfully carry out such decisions as contemplated by the law with the understanding that this Is not intended to preclude any party to a controvsrsy from proceeding by legal action to question the validity of any order of the board on the ground that Jurisdiction and authority to make the order was not conferred by the statutes creating the board and defining it's au thority.
 -"t2)-That we accept the second pro posa1 or e.-, resident, reading as fol- lows
 Second. the carriers will withdraw all law suits growing out of the strike i and railroad labor board decisions which have been involved in the strike may be taken in the exercise of recognized rights by either party. to the railroad labor board for re-hearing,' with the understanding that the strike is first called of, and the representatives of the strikers pledge themselves and the strik- CTS against violence in any form against the men now at work and the property of the carriers, since otherwise it would | be impossible to consider the dismissal of iniunctions and other legal measures necessary to protect such presons and l'property from the violence and intimi- dation of the character restorted to in many localities since the strike was call ed.
 Reject Third Proposal
 "(3)-That 1t is impossible tc agree tc
 the first sentence of the third proposal oi
 the president, the whole of which read.
 as follows:
 |" Third, all employees now on strike
 to be returned to work and to their form
 CT positions with seniority and othel
 rights unimpaired. The representative
 of the carriers and the representative
 of the organizations especially agree
 that there will be no discrimination b.
 either party against the employees wh' did or did not strike.
 The railroad executives and manag CTS agree entirely with the president
 statement in his letter that it is who'll! unthinkable that the railroad labor boar
 can be made a useful agency of tn
 government in maintaining industria
 peace in the railway service, unless em ployers and workers are both promp
 and unquestioning in in their acceptanc
 of it's decisions. I think it is more de
 sirable than know how to express t
 have established the .unchallenged au ! Il Of he Hal rd h. cause we must do things which are nee . essary to bring about the recognition c , suitable authority to decide and en such disputes as menace the continuit of transportation By this language the president ha ] expressed with great force and clearnes
 the policy which we advocate. But. tn . decisions of the railroad labor boar , were f1outed and deied by the six or ganizations comprising the Federate . Shop Crafts; the strike was called t take effect July 1, 1922, and even tn : ! summons of the board to appear with tn U railroad executives before the -labc board, after the strike was called an | befort it took effect, was contemptl ' ously ignored by the leaders of tt , strikers, who refused to attend the heal . ing. Thereupon it became the plain dut :, of the railroads actively and vigorousl II to undertake to uphold the orderly pro cesses for the adjustment of industri;
 disputes contemplated by the statute CT, v ating the board and represented by u
 decisions of that board against which u
 strike in question was directed, and . the same time continue to be the be S of their ability to discharge their duty
 the public as common carriers
 Many men in the service refused z join the strike and in so doing were a
 sured of the seniority rights accruing s them and of the pefSnanence of their D V sitions On some important lines if
 per cent. or more, refused to join Il - strike. To these old loyal employ
 have been added thousands of new me = who were employed and could be secu
 cd only upon a definite promise tn :. their services would be retained regar
 less of the settlement of the strike, wi l. all the rights appertafning to such CT "a ployment, including that of seniori ,- under the working rules and regulatio r previously approved by the railro .e labor board. We especially point 0
 that refusal to the old men who T E. mained in the service and to the nc In men who accepted service of the righ ,o of seniority incident to their emplo ,e ment would have just the opposite il feet to that desired by the presidel le ana would most seriously dlscredlt t C. labor board The board itself prescri th ed the rules of seniority under which t If men referred to have secured their -se to iority rights, and the railroad compani toll have neither the legal nor moral rig
 to deprive these men of those rights ln public utterances. since the strike beg re the board has recognized and emphaslz -d these rights, and to deny them nj ly would. instead Of upholding the authc