The New York herald., 1922-08-17
LABOR LINES UP
Gathering of21 Unions,
16 of Them to Wait
Outside Called
Significant.
NONE PREDICTS VOTE
One Executive Says Roads
Will Stand Firm on
Seniority.
SABOTAGE is DENOUNNr
Only for Outrages the Strike
Would Fall of Own Weight,
Says Underwood.
SABOTAGE is DENOUNNr

Rail executives and chiefs ~ kaa
five train service brotherhood wt!s
meet to-day at headquarters sc tha
Association of Railway Executives. sk
Broadway. in the third attei1pt "a
settle the shopmen's strike sir ee fba
walkout July l.
The train service delegates aa afs
rival last night were found to ho &c
companied by representatives - ex-
teen other striking and mons kng
unions who win wait "outsid Tho
door" while negotiations are under
way. This assembly was characters
lied as one of the most impressiva
gestures in labor history. The peaca
parley will Immediately follow n
luncheon at the Recess Club, 50
Broadway, rendered the conferees by
T. De Witt Cuyler, chairman of thu
executives
What the outcome win be e0ithee
presidents nor labor delegates v5mi9
predict here yesterday save for one ~
ecutive.
One Of the four leading figures amvaE
tiit tAtt4NlNtS dtNlhrtu lUdr IL WIZ
s. Stone Of the engineers, head u tna
Big Four delegation, submitted oniagisw
proposals as reported-namel stet
strikers should be reinstated be'tpc 90
/ employees who had stayed at v 1rs bAN
ahead of new men taken on slq0s INlp
1--such proposals would be res led ~
Impossible" Whether this vsa EcaA
eral sen iment could not be learA
Mr.. Stone and his ASSOCIATE S0siA
not discuss the parley on thei arTfve
at the Pennsylvania Station Il nfGAa
from Washington.
mental Sabotage" N.tv
Mental sabotage was coia8a laes
night by President +. d. Unde wood
the Erie Railroad to describe Htlnis2s.
tion loyal shopmen have f3 fGse.
Physical sabotage the Err chief
blamed for most OF the train delays oc-
curing since the strike. Hot boxes
due to doping" or negligence in pack
ing were plainly malicious, he said. and
they illustrated forces at work to dis-
-upt train schedules.
Remove sabotage declared Presi-
dent Underwood. both mental and
physical. and tho public VIII never know
there is a strike. 1t will fall of it's
own weight"
Mr.. Underwood admitted the Erie was
work as charged by the district council
of the way men Sunday when they
wired r. +. Grabel. national president,
asking him to order immediate striks
on the Erie and Pennsylvania systems
request 50 far not complied with.
Way Men Not Organised.
We have been contracting this woris
for fifteen years. said the president.
our attorneys advise us II is legal. As
for the organization asking n strike be
called. the way men have no organiza.
ton at all. They're come to-day and
gone tomorrow. II would be about as
easy TO classify them as TO put ear
rings in a school Of mackerel. We ara
not much concerned"
The Erie has 2.455 open top coal cars
on hand. according TO Mr., Underwood.
Twenty-one rail unions will be on
hand when the train service men meet
the presidents to-day, Warren S. Stone
announced after his arrival Five--,hs
big Four and the swtchmen-will sit
around the table. Representatives ot
sixteen. including every organization in
the rail industry will be massei outsids
the doors. Mr. Stone indicated this ex-
hibtion of concerted rail unionism would
constitute one of the most impressiys
gestures ever recorded In labor history.
Tho union conferees. according to Mr..
stone, are himself, L. T.. Sheppard OF tho
conductors. w. NJ Doak OF the trainmcns
+. II. Robertson OF the firemen and T,
G. Cushen OF the switchmen.
The committee Of the executives In
clude r. De Witt cuyler chairmanf
Howard Elliott. chairman Of the North-
ern Pacific Railway Company; Hals
Holden. president OF the Chicago. Bur-
hngton and Quincy Railroad Company
Ita1t sNta4ea st40tff .tWw.x
Southern Pacific lines w. l.. Mapother.
president OF the Louisville and Nash-
vile Railroad Company; w. w. After
bury Of the Pennsylvania Railroad: G.
II. Markham. president Of the Illinois
Central Railroad Company. and A. IL.
Smith. president OF the New York Gems
tral lines.