Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-09-08
STRIKE LEADERS
ARE FASTENING
To CHICAGO To.
ATTEND PARLEY
Today There viii Be a
Meeting of the Executive
Council; Committee Of
90 viii Meet on Monday
OBJECT OF SESSIONS
is NOT MADE PUBLIC
President Gray Of the Un-
ion Pacific Declares the
Wa|kout ''lrrevoCably
Lost" " in a Statement
BY the Associated Press.

Chicago, Sept. 7,-tBy The AS
sociated Press) Rail strike lead
ers from every section of the coun-
try were hurrying to Chicago to-
night in response to the summons
Of B. NJ. Jewell, president of the
railway employees department OF
the American Federation of Labor
Tomorrow there will be a meet
ing of the executive council, con-
sisting of the shopcrafts, and Mr..
Jewell. and on Monday there Will
be a meeting of the policy COM
mittee of ninety. The object of the
sessions was not stated in the call
for the sessions which was sent out
last night over the signature of Mr..
Jewell.
Veil of Secrecy.
At union headquarters a veil OF
secrecy was thrown over both
meetings, although it was said that
the meeting of the executive coun-
ell would be secret and that no
announcements of any kind would
be made regarding any possible
action it might take. Mr.. Jewell,
who dropped from sight following
the granting of a temporary in
junction against the strikers last
Friday was still absent from head
quarters todav. 1t was said at his
home that he would return from
New York earlv tomorrow morn
ing
In the absence of Mr.. Jewell and
other members of the executive
council, several Of whom were said
to have been in the east with him,
union officials refused to comment
on widely printed rumors that Mr..
Jewell was planning to submit a
proposal for a settlement with in
dividual roads to the full council.
1t was pointed out that the meet
ing Monday would take place sim
ultaneously with the hearing be-
fore Federal Judge Wilkerson, of
the action by the government seek
ing to make permanent the tenn
porary Injunction granted last Fri
day against the strikers. ]. p.
Noonan, chief of the brotherhood
of electrical workers one of the
seven unions on strike. said in
Washington today That at this
stage there are no settlement dis
cussions proceeding with any Of
the railroads. although. of course,
there might be some in the
future" He added that Mondays
meeting in Chicago was called to
consider what should be done in
view of the Injunction application.
Strike is lost?
Western railway executives were
almost a unit in declaring that
they knew of no negotiations look
ing toward separate settlements
with individual roads. Strike set
tlement with tho American Fed
Grafton of Labor is now an impos-
sibility." said a. G. Wells. vice.
president of the Santa Fe at Tope-
ka, Kansas. He added that reports
of the willingness Of the shop
crafts to make settlements on in
dividual roads. "as stated in press
reports, indicates that there is
realization among the leaders that
the strike of the shopmen is lost"
At the same time. Carl Gray,
president of the Union Pacific, de-
clared the strike "irrevocably
lost" in statement issued at
Omaha. He added that the Union
Pacific had 80 per cent of a nor
NAL force now at work and there
was no disgrace in defeat" for the
shopmen.