The Washington herald., 1922-07-21
TRAIN SERVICE
CUT AS PEACE
EFFORTS FAIL
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means that the Pennsylvania Rail-
road in fostering the open shop
movement will have to meet with
representatives of the shop crafts
In selecting employees to meet with
its officials.
The decision is not only victory
for the labor board. but Is held to
be an important victory for the
unions.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has
recently announced that it has
come to wage agreement with
its shop employees. This agreement
Is invalidated because the labor
board found that the road was
dealing with representatives of less
than Is per cent of its employees
and had not considered the senti-
ments of the, other SIS per cent.
|, C. w. Galloway. vice president of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. an
nounced that, since the peace move
ment under taken by Ben W. Hooper,
chairman Of the United States Rail-
road Labor Board. had failed. the
company is now ready to confer with
its men" on the question of settle
ment.
Superintendent over the entire sy.-
tenn promptly were instructed to not!-
fy the men the company desired to
deal with them.
While in some quarters the Balti-
more and Ohio announcement was
hailed as an important step toward
ending the strike. others were less
hopeful. The later founded their
views on the fact that the aim or the
carrier, as indicated by press di-
spatches from Pittsburgh, is to meet
a committee of its employes-not the
union representatives now directing
the strike OF 100000 shopmen.
The Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad was one of the hardest
hit by the combination Of lack of
coal and curtailed shop facilities.
This railroad pulled off fifteen
trains during the day in Wisconsin,
Iowa and northwestern States.
Expect Further Cuts.
ers indicated further curtailments
will be made tomorrow.
The Wabash took off six fast
trains, and the Pere Marquette
twenty-four. most of them locals
In the Southwest the same con-
dition prevailed.
Unoficial tabulations indicate
that there are now 400 trains with
drawn from service on railroads
running into Chicago. The major
ity of them are branch line "ac-
commodations."
The final refusal of the carriers to
restore seniority to strikers was fol-
lowed by a declaration from Presi-
dent Jewell, of the shop crafts
unions. that "the roads will yield
as soon as we bring them to their
knees" Jewell added that estab-
lishment of national boards of ad-
justment, as provided by the trans
portation act, would go far in set
Ting the strike. These boards
would be composed of officials and
employees of each road and all dis
putes would be threshed out in
dividually before they would reach
the Labor Board.
Much Hangs on Farley.
The greatest Importance is at
tached to the meeting of the main
tenance of way executive board in
Detroit tomorrow. This meeting
will determine whether the mainte-
nance men will join the walkout
Failure of the roads to accede to the
demands of the unions that seniority
rights be restored before concilia-
tion Is broached has heightened the
possibility of walkout of the
$780, 900 men in this organization. 1t
is believed President Cradle, of the
maintenance organization. has acteo
as "go-between" for the strikers and
the Labor Board aud President
Harding.