New-York tribune., 1922-09-14
3 335,OOOSlnopr,nern
In East Not to
Profit by Peace
Continued from paas enel

| be forced to accept re-enpIoymefit as
new men and enroll in the company
unions, which, of course, will have no
American Federation Of Labor affilia-
tions
| In the absence Of detailed fnforma-
| tion as TO the terms of the agreement
on which the settlements are to be per-
mitted, neither railroad executives nor
| leaders of the striking shopmen were
| disposed to give an expression of opin-
| ion last night. This was the reason
given by David Williams, secretary Of
the central strike committee, for de-
clining to discuss the action taken in
Chicago. Mr.. Williams announced that
on advices received from Chicago a
telegram had been sent to all of the
local strikers informing them that the
adoption Of settlement program IN
Chicago gave them no authorization
to return to work until advised to do
SO by the union federation of each in
diyidual railroad. This rule is applied
to every railroad in the district, Mr..
Williams informed the strikers, "even
those which may be reported as agree
ing with the settlement program"
Railroad executives were equally
loath to comment on the Chicago set
tlement plan in the absence of details.
They reiterated their determination to
stand by their agreements with the
men hired to replace the strikers and
who are now practically al enrolled in
company unions with which the rail-
roads are pledged to deal to the ex-
clusion Of all other labor organizations.
1t would seem from this that the
company union will prove practically
of any new agreements with the
American Federation of Labor unions
on the basis of the Chicago program,
or any other program. Mr.. Bessler,
in announcing the formation of the
guilds among the shop workers at
Elizabethport, stated definitely that his
road would not take back any strikers
except as members of the guilds, and
that so far as it is concerned the
strike is ended. A recent announce
ment of the New Haven stated that its
men were enrolled in the company
| union 100 per cent and on the Della
ware & Hudson and Pennsylvania the
company unions are said to be almost
! as strong.
| Local strike leaders were led to be-
! lieve by the first news coming from
Chicago that the New York Central
and the Erie were parties to the agree
ment on the basis adopted by the poli-
cies committee. r. D. Underwood,
president of the Erie, denied that his
road was among those lined up behind
the plan, and later adyices received at
strike headquarters corroborated this
statement by eliminating both the Erie
and the Central from among the roads
concerned in the negotiations. This
leaves the Baltimore & Ohio as the
only Eastern road involved in the
peace pact.
"This marks the beginning of the
end of the strike" was Mr.. Under
woods only comment.
The conference yesterday between
| officials Of the Pennsylvania and a
committee of the Fruit and Produce
Trade Association to devise some
means of getting California fruit into
New York, now that the Erie Railroad
has placed an embargo on ali freight
shipments from the West, will be con-
tinued tomorrow morning. After i
session of several hours it was an
nounced that the Pennsylvania will
make survey of available facilities
for handling this added traffic and
will make it's decision known at tho
meeting tomorrow.
Mayor Hylan has appointed Corpora
tion Counsel John P. -O'Brien, Commits
sioner Edwin j. O'Malley of the De-
partment of Markets and Commissioner
John H. Delaney of the Department of
Docks to aid in finding some solution
of the problem created by the mbargo.
The fruit dealers, of whom there are
about 200, representing 10000 Cali
fornia shippers, asked the railroad Of
ficials to handle 800 cars of fruit daily.
The survey Of facilities to handle this
added business will include check of
icing equipment which, they said, is
now heavily taxed in the handling of
other perishable foods.