New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-08
Roads ()fferira..ls.
Strikers L er'rrls,
IIealy Insists
Polisy Board Gathering irs
Chicago liz TO Consider
Coaaeessieaas, He ASSERTS
at Trades Cossraci1 NEeeaing
Days Wage Aid Il Voted
Harding Called ~That Golf
Ball i'm White House. by
Williams, i'm Defying Writ

Timothy Healy, international presis
dent of the National Association Of
Stationary Firernen and Oilers one of
the striking railway shopcrafts told
delegates TO the Central Trades and
Labor Council III Beethoven Hall last
night that the strikers had been offered
s concession that made settlement
possible.
"The policy committee of the shop
craft unions is going to meet IN Chi
cage on Mondas-in junction OF. no in
j1nctien," said Mr.. Healy. Something
may come out of that meeting, for we
have got concession. Mere / can't
tell you.
that, then we'll need your help. Well
need help from every friend Of organ
izcd labor in the United States and
Canada. In the mean time we're not
worried and we're not quitting The
f1ier axe net goifg back to work.
0ne@Day Assessment Approved
Mr. Healys remarks were made after
the council. which represents 100000
workers., had voted almost unanimously
III favor of resolution calling on
every trade uniouist in Greater New
York to assess himself one days pay.
This naeney is to be turned over to the
secretary Of the council and no secret
was made at the meeting of an inten-
tion to use this money for the benefit
Of the strikers regardless of the Chi
cago injunction.
Mr.. Healy said that it had been i'm
tended to keep secret the calling of the
policy committee but that this plan
had failed. The fact that the commit
tee. which numbers ninety, was to meet
had been confirmed earlier in the day
at LEGAL strike headquarters.
Abuse of Harding Voiced
The meeting of the Central Trades
siderable verbal abuse eff President
Harding and Attorney General Daugh-
erty. The President was referred to
by David Williams as "that golf ball in
the White House Mr.. Williams is
the vice-president of the Machinists'
International, and secretary of the
metropolitan shopmen's strike commit
tee. He breathed defiance at the in
Junction.
"There isn't anybody can scare US
with that kind Of injunction" he
said. "There are too many Irish,
Welsh and jews among us. We're go
ing right on with this strike. We're
going to keep on fighting and we're
Among railway executives, however,
there was an insistence that reports
of an impending settlement of the
strike by large group of railroads
were made out of whale cloth" A
meeting of the policAz omnlittee of
the shopmen does notaS eessarily in
dictate that a settlement S5in progress,
one executive said. He declared that
iinstead of heralding a finish of the
strike it indicated that the leaders had
decided to "save something from the
wreck" and were about to permit the
local unions on individual railroads to
make agreements with their employers
instead of insisting on a settlement on
national basis only.
May Retain Pension Rights
Most Of the executives were Of the
opinion that the policy committee
would grant such permission and pre-
dieted that in that event the strike
would be over by September Is. The
basis of these individual agreements,
the executives said, would be the
granting of pension rights to return
ing strikers and such seniority rights
as they can obtain, basis entirely
satisfactory to the railroads.
Strikers on many railroads have
sought permission from their organiza-
ton to make separate settlements on
the best terms that could be obtained"
said one rail president. This permits
sion has been denied up to date by MIR.
Jewell and his associates because they
had no power TO grant the request. II
now looks, on the face of the Chicago
dispatches, that in order to save the
national organization from disintegra-
tion. Mr.. Jewell is going to ask TIE
policy committee to rescind it's stand
on individual agreements. If the com
mittee does that it will mark the com-
plete collapse of the strike.
1T is significant that the reports
name the same fifty-two railroads that
took part in the negotiations at the
Yale Club here which ended in failure.
It is also significant that practically
the same terms that failed to bring
about peace at that time, because they
were unacceptable to the carriers, are
trotted out as the supposed basis for
the new peace. This was done to mis-
lead the public and does not reflect
the facts"
A. n. Smith. president of the New
York Central lines, denied the report
that his system was involved in the
supposed negotiations.
Cnmnains answers Strikers
Strike officials made public letter
received from Senator Cummins, chair
man of the Senate Committee on In
terstate Commerce, in answer TO their
! telegram. urging an investigation into
the condition of railway equipment.
Senator Camnins wrote that no inves-
tigation was needed to establish that
the number of bad order cars had in
creased greatly throughout the country,
that the job now is to repair this
equipment. IF you can help in that
direction" the letter concludes, "you
will be rendering tremendous service
to your country
! The leaders of the striking shopnlen
said they were glad to get this plain
spoken denial Of the optimistic propa-