The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-08
FULL SESSION OF
CONGRESS ASKED
AS STRIKE MOVE
Unions Seem UnfaVOrable 10
Labor Board as a Law.
Executives Who Have Shops
Filled May Not Like It
OTHER CRAFTS TO GO OUT?
TeIegraphers and Big -Four Are
Seething With Unrest Now.
General Conference of All Head
Officials in Unions Called.
Executives Who Have ShOps
Filled May Not Like It.
OTHER CRAFTS TO GO OUT!
TeIegraphers and Big -Four Are
Seething With Unrest Now.
General Conference of All Head
Officials in Unions Called.

WASHINGTON, Aug. s. - President
Harding was understood today to have
Informed Representative Monden OF
wyoming and other house leaders that
in view of the troubled industrial sit
uatfou il was desira be that there be
a full attendance OF members next
Tuesday when the house reconvene1
after a six weeks adjournment
The president it was learned from
house leaders, was said to feel the
house should be prepared TO enact
such legislation as the Industrial STU
alton. particularly the rail- strike
might make necessary None or the
leaders so far as il could be learned
had been informed as to whether the
president had any specific legislation
in mind and if he had what was IT'S
nature.
Spokane. Wash. Aug S--Women
pickets were on duty today at the
Great Northern railway shops at Hill
yard. three miles northeast of here
Washington. Aug. s.-President
Harding's second proposal for imme-
diate termination of the railway shop
crafts strike awaited today formal ac-
tion by both sides in the controversy
but rejection by the unions was fore
shadowed in statements by their lead
ers here.
Chier executives of the shop craft
were called to meet here "Wednesday
that the seniority issue be left to the
railroad labor board for determina-
ton.
At the same time shop crafts lead
ers who is-ued the call also sought
general conference next Friday with
ali executives of labor organiza-
tions
Engineers Called to Parley.
tBy the Associated Press.J
Cleveland, o., Aug. S--Warren s:
Stone. president of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers. this morning
telegraphed sixteen chiefs OF railroad
brotherhOods asking them to attend a
conference in Washington next Friday
TO consider the railroad situation
thruout the country and "avert the
impending calamity or a collapse in
transportation"
Pre- 1ident Stones action was taken
following receipt of a telegram this
morning from Bert NJ. Jewell. head OF
the shop crafts unions, William H
Johnston, president of the Interna-
tiOnal Association gOf MaChiniStS. and
j. f Noonan, president of the Broth
erhood of Electrical Workers. asking
him to call such a meeting. 7 called
the brotherhood chierS together, as
requested" Mr.. Stone saId, but L do
not know just what action will be
taken"
TcIcgraphcrs Voting on Strike.
Cincinnati, Aug. S.-FolIowing the
announcement that strike ballot was
being spread a strike OF telegra pliers
on the Big Four railroad was said by
members of the order of Railroad
Telegraphers in the Cincinnati ter
minal to be possibility within a
few days" For further informa ton
the local wire men referred inquirers
to Edward Whalen. Indianapolis, gem
eral chairman Big Four division o.
r. T.
1t was said the main cause for pro-
mitigating of the strike ballot was the
failure of recent conference with
the management regarding what is
known s the split trick" whereby
operators are required to work eight
hours in any twelve, in some cases
being assigned to work four hours, be
laid off four hours and then be COM
PEELED to work another four hours.
Other grievances, it was said, were
of n comparatively minor nature.
E NJ. Costin. general manager of
the Big Four, stated there are I,1OO
men in the group that is taking the
strike vote. (
Joliet Is Quiet Today.
Joliet, Ill, Aug. S.-with four COM
panies of state troops on duty in the
area of the Elgin. Joliet & Eastern
railroad shops. where serious rioting
occurred yesterday. this city was quiet
today. Crowds which gathered near
the shops were quickly dispersed
Leaders of the strikers assured the
military officers there would be no
further disorders
Executives to Answer Friday.
New York, Aug. S.-Telegrams
summoning the heads of 14s railroads
to New York Friday to frame the re-
ply of the Association OF Railway ES-
ecutives to President Harding's sec
ond plan for settlement of the shor,
craft strike were dispatched today. |
Orders for the convention were issued |
at Bar Harbor. Ne, by De Witt Guy
yer, president of the association, a |
sharp division of opinion between
eastern and western carrier chiefs
toward the president suggestion for
putting the question OF seniority for
the strikers directly up TO the rail-
road labor board, appeared in railroad
circles today
l. F. Loree, president of the Della
ware & Hudson and chairman of the
eastern presidents conference is be-
lieved to have expressed the policy of |
the 'irreconcilables" when he de-
clared the presidents proposal de-
manded "a complete surrender" of
their position.