New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-21

tons mentioned in the shipments give
points" standing firm on the Labor
Board ruling. and, furthermore, will
not give ZIP the farming out of repair
work to contractors not bound by the
wage scales and working agreements
decreed for the roads.
"This is finish fight" L. F. Loree,
who presided at the meeting, declared
later. "The reported withdrawal of the
Labor Board from the situation is all
for the best, for it will clear the air
and rid the strikers of false hopes of
| an early peace"
| Turning aside from all the ~ht. of a
general settlement with heare then,
according to Mr.. Walber, the Ifs will
depend upon the reported abundance of
skilled mechanics in the army of unem-
ployed, on offers of assistance from
numerous industrial plaqts, and on a
gradual disintegration Of the strike
forces, to keep their equipment in work
ing condition and maintain normal
transportation facilities.
10 this the union leaders replied con-
cisely that skilled mechanics willing to
earn living by taking the places of
strikers are as scarce as red herrings
IN the wood, that already union labor
In such plants as the American Loco
handle
repairs which ordinarily would be done
by the shopmen and that the strikers
can hold their own lines Indefinitely.
charging that the executives have de-
termined to force the open shop on the
| railroad workers and declaring that
TINS policy will mean the dislocation of
transportation and menace to the
lives of passengers, the central strike
committee here announced their read-
ness for a fight. They blamed a
Clique" designated as the "Pennsyl-
the attitude of the roads.
Both carriers and shopmen claimed
time as an ally. The roads declare
that every day sees the hole made in
their repair forces narrowed by the
taking on of large numbers of salts
factory new men, and that it will not
be long before the shop forces are re-
cruited to a strength sufficient to meet
every demand The unions reply that
the confidence Of their men is growing
daily, with the increasing signs that
the carriers are having difficulty in
maintaining normal transportation, -
cordingly.
The union hope Of reinforcement
from the maintenance of way men grew
DINNER yesterday, however, with re-
newed indications that the roads in
tend to settle with their track and ash
pit men. The strike leaders derived
what comfort they might from declar-
ing that the roads were granting terms
to the way workers through fear of q
double strike and asserted that this in
itself was an indication of their own
strength. The roads said they were we're
trying to settle in conformity with
the wishes of the Labor Board and to
reward the maintenance men for stick
ing to the regular arbitration pro
cedure.
With the apparent determining of
the position of the trackmen and the
laying aside, at least temporarily. of
talk of an early peace in the shop
strlke, the two main questions last
night were how effective the existing
waik-outs had been in disclocatinc
transportation and what signifcance
was to be attached to the summons re-
celved by the eastern presidents con-
terence to send five representatives to
Washington Immediately to meet with
Senator Cumrnins
Western Freight Delayed
AS for the transportation question.
light was shed on the movement of
freight in this section by persons not
connected with the strike for the first
time Yesterday. Inquiries at the Of
/ fees of half a dozen large concerns
receiving shipments from the Middle
West showed that delays of from TWEEN
ty-four to forty-eight hours were be-
! ing met on almost all consignments
from that region. Most of the bust
ness men questioned appeared to con-
| slider it an achievement for the roads
| to have maintained service even
near to normal, although the carriers
themselves, almost without exception,
have said that no delays whatever were
being experienced.
| Swift & Co. and Armour & Co. re-
ported that their meat shipments from
Chicago were taking four days en-
| route instead of three. The number
Of "cripples" in the railroad Yards ard
| difficulty in returning cars to the West
were blamed for the delays.
The Packard Automobile Company of
New York, reported regular forty
eight hour delays in transit from De-
troit- Ford distributors, on the other
hand, said that because Of the small
size OF their cars, shipments are arrive
ing almost on time from Michigan.
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