The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-06
NEGOTIATIONS GO ON
Jewell and Johnston, Repre-
senting Men, Stress Strike
Seriousness TO President
TRAIN CREWS MAY GO OFF
Representatives. of Enginemen
and Trainmen Say Workers
Jobs Are Dangerous


CINCINNATI. Aug. 5.--A confer
enco to prevent further fatalities
TO our membership on account OF de-
| fcctive equipment and with armed
guards In shops and yards" was
asked In telegram sent to prcsi-
dent Harding tonight by IL. II. Fitz'
gerald, president of the brotherhood
OF railway and steamship clerks.
freight handlers, station and express
employees.
Fitzgerald In making the tele.
gram public through the Associated
Press stated he had instructed j. J.
Forester. national legislative coun-
sci of the brotherhood In Washing
ton to arrange conference with the
president Monday to lay before him
all the details OF the situation.
CINCINNATI. Aug. 5.--Heads of
four railroad unions not on strike
were invited TO participate In con-
| ference to be arranged with presi-
| don't Harding TO protest against tho
use "of armed guards in railroad
shops and yards" In telegrams ent
out tonight by r.. II. Fitzgerald.
Railway aud steamship Clerks.
freight handlers. station and OK
press employees The five organiza.
tlons represent Approximately eight
hundred thousand. he said.
The invitations were sent to u. J.
Manion OF the telegraphers; II. +.
Cradle OF the maintenance Of way
mon; ID, w. Helt of the signalmen
of North America. and j. @. Luprsnu
OF the American Train Dispatchers
association. Fitzgerald stated that
he had already received acceptance
from Luprsen and Cradle to attend
the meeting.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 5.---Negoti-
tiations to end the strike Of Tailruad
saopmen were resumed today by
President Harding, b. NJ. Jewell,
president OF the railroad employees
department OF the American Fedora.
tion OF Labor. w. II. Johnston, pres
ident OF tho machlnists, and j. !,
Noonan, head of the electrical work
ers' brotherhood, left the White
House after an hour of conference
with the chief executive expecting to
be recalled Monday.
Presidents Last Word.
II was not disclosed whether the
president had communicated again
whh railroad heads, whose refusal
this week to grant his proposal TO
give returning strikers back senior.
ity status terminated the first settle
ment, but the strike leaders said att
cr the conference that the proposals.
as originally outlined by tho presi-
dent, constituted their "irreducible
m!nSfffyf,n seeking honorable get
H.. Is;. Wills. J, PAU stephens and
Arthur j LoVGll, representing res-
pectiYelyS the engineers. trginmen
and engfnomen aud firemen saw
the president and presented the pos
slbility that grave prospects OF fur
ther rail unsettlemcnt were In sight
unless the shop situation was
straightoned out. II was understood
that while they did not set up pos
sibility Of sympathetic strikes by
their membership. they declared
that the conditions of railroad
equipment, locomotives, particularly
on many roads, was growing to be
such that train crews might refuse
service.
One Road May Make Peacs.
The meeting between general
chairman Uf chop workers on the
Southern railway and operating Of
ficlals set for today. was postponed
until Monday because all the repre-
| seutatiyes Of the men had not ar
rived In Washington. The Southern
has acted differently from the other
roads of the country and has Of
fered n separate scttlement on the
basis Of President HardIng's pro-
posais, without reservation,
Officials OF the shop union, though
informed 90 degree concerning the
representations made by the broth
erhoOd Representatives at the White
House. declared they had no con
nection with the move, All paTtiCi
pants believe that the president, n
he intended to exercise further sup
sion on the railroad executives!
would ask no further cOncasnons
from the men other than thSt In,
volyed In his original proposal ~ct
accepting the railroad labor wage
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