Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-26
RAIL MEMS FARLEY
ENDS IN NEW YORK;
STRIKE CONTINUES
BIO, Alone Continues Peace
Effort-Outbreaks of Vio-
lence Continue in Many
Quarters

Associated Press.)-Attempts to end
the rail shopmen's strike by sepa-
rate settlements with individual
roads failed today and conferences
were broken off.
: Daniel Willard, of the Baltimore
and Ohio, head of the, committee Of
executives who Wednesday decided
Ito continue negotiations with the
mediating brotherhood chiefs to see
IL separate settlements were posi-
BILE, and other rail heads, are pre-
pairing to leave town.
In announcing the breaking off of
negotiations, David Williams, head
Of the eastern strike committee, said:
Nothing else could have happened.
II they'll quit fussing around we'll
beat these fellows"
The break came after the broth.
erhood leaders, who right along
have maintained that the strike must
end because the public demanded it,
had spent two hours comforting with
executives representing about thirty
per cent of the country's mileage.
These negotiations looking toward
individual settlement began Wed
nesday night after the Association
Of Railway Executives as a whole
had rejected any proposal involving
surrender on the seniority ques
lion. After yesterdays conferences
the radiators likened their situation
to that of bats, who could not find
the way out of their difficulties.
One of the brotherhood leaders
said after the conference that the
mediators had made every possible
effort to bring about a settlement,
out that negotiations had blown ur.
He indicated there was no likeli.
mood at present that they would
De resumed.
While it was said that negotia
ions had ended ''for the present" it
aad not been officially stated whether
here was any prospects Of the con-
terence being resumed in the iu,
lure. The brotherhood men with
drew from the conference shortly
aSakfore noon to return to labor head
quarters for a conference with shop
craft heads. AS they had done this
70 frequently since the separate ne
sotiations started, it was believed
hat they would return in the after
aoon.
Strikers Called On
At labor headquarters, where it
Vas said the unions were prepared
or a fight-tothe-f finish, kilograms
we're being dispatched all over the
country, calling upon strikers to re-
1ew the struggle with redoubled
Tigor.
Eve know where we stand now"
laid one leader.
A statement by the executives
representing So main and subsidiary
ines, with $4,000 miles of trackage
WHO attended the latest conferences,
iisclaimed any desire to take advan-
,age of the strike situation to curtail
the pension or other privileges"
which had been earned by the strik-
srs before quitting, and expressed a
: willingness to restore all strikers
with pension privileges unimpaired.
fo1f of
liberty to do this, as it did not i'm
pair the rights or privileges of the
roads not participating in the con-
serences.
The roads set forth that if any
unsatisfactory disputes remained
which could not be settled by direct
conference, they were willing to sub
nit these points to a commission of
Ten, comprising the heads of the big
i've and five executives. The lines,
moreover, said they were willing to
enter upon such plan in a spirit of
7sonciliation.
The railway executives said they
regretted that the representatives
of the strikers, although definitely
assured the substance of all they
asked for, were unwilling to agree to
settle under the conditions proposed.
The roads statement added that the
lines were willing to pledge them
selves to find jobs for all strikers in
the same places of employment at
The rate of pay fixed by the railroad
labor board.
The executives statement, issued
IIr:11auI koo1l -
more and Ohio, added that the
rights of loyal employees would be
protected.
A statement issued at labor head.
quarters said that, while not queS-
tioning the integrity of the execu'
lives in making their latest proposal
the unions could not accept it.
Jewell Answers
The shop craft leaders, in their
reply to the executives said that to
accept the proposition Of the minori
ty of railroads would destroy the eff
fectiveness of the strike and that
thew would consider it a desertion OF
the other men.
In making public the shop crafts
reply to the executives, Bert M
Jewell, spokesman for the strikers,
issued a short statement in which
he said: 1--WE do not blame the more
reasonable executives who have evi
IDENTIFY yielGed to pressure. We be-
lieye the next few weeks will enable
them to bring home to their hard
shell colleagues the railroad situa-
lion in it's grim reality
Mr.. Jewell added that the strikers
could and would fight for their mini
mum terms and for a nationwide
settlement as long as could the road
arrangements.
"Now that we are compelled tc
Hght,". said Mr.. Jewell, "our victory
will bring with it victory on all the
issues for which the strike was