Evening star., 1922-07-24
STATION AGENTS
TO STAY ON lob
Instructions to Be Sent, Says
Union Chief After Confer
ring With McMenimen.
B. & O. FARLEY IMPORTANT
Successful Outcome Would Lead
Other Reads to Negotiate
Direct With Strikers.
B. & O. PARLEY IMPORTANT
Ey the Assorist-i Press.

Ey the Associate, Press.
CHICAGO. July % = The 10000
unioniZed railroad station agents will
not be called out on strike. W. j.
Noone, president; of the organiZa ion.
announced today after a conference
with W. l.. McMenimen, labor mem
ber of the United States Railroad d
Labor Board.
Il viii instruct my men 10 remain at
work and order that committees con-
fer with the road managements over
all points at issue" he said
With government officials mainta q in
Ing silence in regard to the railroad
of Ben w. Hooper. chairman, that the
Railroad Labor Board would make no
further move at present. interest to-
day turned to separate peace efforts
OF railroads and strikers. Officials Of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad had
q mesting at Baltimore with repre-
sentatiVes of the striking shoptn en-.
and despite the failure last week Of
similar efforts made at st. Paul by
northwest roads. it was confidently
predicted that the Baltimore confer
ence would obtain favorable results
should the meeting result in an
adjustment it was expected other
railroads would follow the same
course. C. b. NJ. Jewell. head of the
shopmens union. refused 10 comment
ON the Baltimore parley. but pre-
viously hsd acknowledged receiving
offers of settlement from number
of roads.
Some Action Indicated.
The silence of federal officials was
it,f tod
dent Harding was inclined to let the
situation drift for few days while
he received the report of Secretary of
Labor Davis and further inquired
into facts. However. that the Presl-
dent might take some action soon
was indicated in his efforts to obtain
the facts from all angles. The con-
ference Friday between members of
the Senate Interstate Commerce Com
mission and eastern rail chiefs, the
conference with Chairman Hooper
and Secretary Davis. meeting ut
Moseheart, ILL.,. with strike leaders,
q member of the labor board and q
commissioner Of conciliation Of the
Department of Labor. seemed to
strengthen the belief that definite
plan was being made.
Possible action BY the Interstate
Commerce Commission was seen in
the statement of Attorney General
Daugherty that the commission could
exercise a supervisory power over
carriers But this would probably
rect distribution of coal under a sys-
tenn Of rationing. sending it first to
points in greatest need.
Few disturbances were reported
over Sunday.
Freight EmbarEOes Continue.
Gov. Neff of Texas announced Ne
was ready to send aid to any points
~
violence or inability OF railroads to
obtain men, but said that ample pro-
lection could be given by state rang
ers and that none of the Texas Ma,
tional Guard would be sent for the
time. Guardsmen have been called
out in nine states.
Railroads which had declared en-
bargoes on perishab1e freight con-
tinued to enforce the ban, and motor
trucks were pressed into service in
several instances. At Boone. Iowa,
motor trucks were being used to carry
mails to and from the town Of Moin-
gona.
Authorities at Lynndyl. Utah., were
searching for an unidentified nom
union worker who was said to have
caused the death of striker by push
ing him in front of a moving train.
resulted in the injury of guard and
non-union shop worker.
The Big Four railroad today notified
the United States Railroad Labor Board
that it would comply with the boards
request that work at its freight termi-
nails should not be let out to contract
ing firms. The road was one of those
which had been letting out work to
private firms. There were small out
breaks in Chicago this morning and
one striker was arrested.
Frank Sarwas. a shopman en-
ployed by the Chicago and North
western railroad, was stabbed in tho
hip and cheek. George Ssatko IN
held by the police. The stabbing fol-
lowed the strikers demand that Sar-
was join the strike.
John Killoris, Q non-union work
man employed by the Illinois Central
railroad, was slugged by three men
while on his way to work.
The Rock Island shops at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, opened this morning
with twenty new men.
There was no disorder, though
pickets asked the men not to 20 in
aide the shops.