The New York herald., 1922-07-27
APPEALS TO MEN
Harding Pledges JUS
tice if Workers Will
Accept Award Of .
Labor Board.
TO SEE EXECUTIVES
President Will Confer With
L. F. Loree and Other
Heads of Roads.
JEWELL GOES TO CAPITAL
Importance Attaches to His
Conference at the White
House To-day.
JEWELL GOES TO CAPITAL
SpecicI Dispatch TO THE New YoRK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau
Washington. ID. c.. July 20 (

SpecirI Dispatch to THE New York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Washington. ID. c., July 90.
President Harding issued to-day
what practically amounted to a per-
sonal appeal, in which he suggested
in the strongest terms that regard for
the public welfare and the sanctity OF
the Government demand that the
striking railroad workmen return to
work Immediately on the basis of the
findings and decisions of the railroad
labor board.
The appeal OF the President and the
expression of his views relative to tho
coal and rail strike took the form Of
telegram he addressed to J. .Cleve
Dean of Chattanooga, chairman of the
Railway Employees Publicity Associa-
ton. who charged that the Admins
tration is discriminating against labor
in the industrial controversy.
President Harding invited Mr.. Dean
to urge the shop strikers to accept the
awards of the railroad board, giving
at the same time the assurance that
move to see that the men got fair play
and that the decisions of the board
would be reopened or any points in
controversy submitted to rehearing
where there was reasonable doubt OF
the justice of the award
Asked to Yield Point.
The call TO the shops crafts to accept
the boards award to prevent suffering
and in order that sovereignty of the
Government itself might be maintained
was made simultaneously with the
launching Of move by the President to
get recalcitrant executives to yield a
point on the seniority questions.
The two moves taken simultaneously. .
indicated that 1t was the idea of the
President that the executives should
yield on this main factor in the lockout
and that at the same time the men
should for the time being accept the
award of the board.
Gen. w. w. Atterbury, vice-president
of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was sum-
moned to the White House, where he
had two hour conference with the
President. Others of the Eastern execu-
tives that constitute the so-called "die
hard" group are to be invited. among
them L. F. Loree. president OF the Della
ware and Hudson. T. De Witt Cuyler.
chairman Of the Association OF Railway
Executives. is to confer with the Preei-
dent tomorrow.
In his message to Mr.. Dean tho
President restated the position he has
taken relative to the obligation imposed
on all concerned to accept the flats of
the railroad labor board. He virtually
asserted that to refute the board in
volved the status and the prestige Of
the Government itself.
shouId Accept Mandates.
1.-THE decisions OF the railroad labor
board" said the telegram, ARE in COM
pliance with the mandate of the law
making body OF the United States.
without discussing the decisions at
issue. 1t Is fair to assume that Gov
ernment agency is ever ready to cor
rect an error which is made. else Gov
ernment itself would be unjust More
over. II is indisputable that there can
be no government unless It's mandates
are accepted by the citizenship of the
republic. This relates more particularly
10 the railroad situation"
In answer to charges in Mr.. Deans
telegram that the Administration wes
the President declared In the strongest
terms that the Government undertakes
to represent neither class alone and dis
putes the right of any group or class.
organized or unorganized, to imperil
American welfare"
It was not the purpose Of the Ad-
ministration. the President said, to use
troops or any Of It's powers 10 the dis
advantage of any class or group whether
they were strikers or workers. 1t was
as much the Governments obligation TO
protect those who are working in the
interest OF the general welfare as Il was
to protect those who were unwilling to
work, TO the great detriment OF the ma
ton. and who have refused just offers
of arbitration. the President asserted.
Asked to Accept Award.
"y Lnvite you 10 urge the striking rail-
way workers. sSs-~ telegram added, "tn
accept the decision OF the Amsrfsan
Railway Labor Board acting under the
authority Of law until you and I an,l
every one else interested in American
welfare may join In asking the railroad
labor board to give n rehearing on any
question concerning which there Is rea-
sonable doubt about the correctness or
the Justice of the decisions made"
II became known here tonight ynar-
B. NJ. Jewell. who Is directing the strike.
and six international heads Of shop
crafts unions. together with representa-
lives OF the railroad labor board were
on their way to Washington to confer
with President Harding.
The announcement was regarded here !