The New York herald., 1922-09-29
ERIE STRIKE ENDED;
MINERS ENTER FIGHT
Pennsylvania Puts On En-
barge but Expects to Lift 1t
in Two Weeks.

Peace on the Erie. capitulation of the
Pennsylvania to joining the embargo
movement and a significant new alliance
between striking shopmen and dissatis-
fled coal miners brought tagging rail
developments UP with a sharp turn yes
terday.
The Erie had hardly settled with its
10000 striking shopworkers on the
nlnety-first day of the walkout when
local strike leaders announced joint
drive with the United Mine Workers In
Pennsylvania TO compel similar settle
ment by the remaining hard coal car
riers still holding out.
The Pennsylvania Railroad late at
night announced an embargo beginning
Monday against all but priority"
freight to permit a cleanup of traffic
congestion and to facilitate movement
OF coal and other privileged commodi-
ties
Strikers Plead for Public's Rights.
The strike offensive against the roads
In the anthracite group will be started
tomorrow at Scranton. according to the
Central Strike Committee here. Shop
crafts and mine workers leaders will
confer with Pennsylvania Mayors from
taken. the committee announced in re-
gard to alleged inability OF these "die
hard" roads to move coal.
Failure to ship coal on an adequate
scale was charged by the labor council
to the refusal of the roads to agree
with the strikers Such settlement would
mean reJuvenation of run down shop
forces so the roads might salvage the
bad order" equipment necessary to ef-
feet such movement
The committee said a further effect
or this refusal. which amounted TO "or-
ganized conspiracy" to thwart peace set
tlement with the men on any basis short
OF absolute surrender was seen in the
recent temporary shutdown or collieries
This had caused unrest among coal
miners thrown out Of work and consti-
tuted a menace to the continuous mining
Of the coal of which the public stands
ir pressing need. Because of com
Dunity of interests" it was stated,
shopmen and miners had now pooled
forces.
Erie Men Lose Seniority.
The Erie agreement was reached at
youngstown after a series of meetings
OF regional managers and system chair
men of the shop crafts. r. S. Parsons,
yice-president in charge of operations,
announced tnat Shopmen VIII return to
work at once ION conditions satisfactory
ITO both parties" Mutual concessions on
contract labor and wages it was
learned, paved the way. No official di-
gest of terms was given out. but 1t was
reliably ascertained that the returning
strikers waived seniority.
Nobody won the strike" said one of
the active figures in the negotiations,
who added that the harmony now pre-
vailing was largely due TO the fact that
the controversy was settled "in the
family"
The Pennsylvania embargo has two
Phases. Connections east and west of
Altoona, Pa. and Remove. Pa, will be
limited indefinitely to priority freight
such as coal, food. perishables, &c.
From october for ten days q similar
embargo will apply In the central,
southwestern and northwestern regions
of the system and in the eastern re-
gion on freight destined to the other
three. The management hoped that two
weeks would be enough for the restric-
tons.
e. Z. Loomis. president OF the Lehigh
Valley Railroad, denied that the four
Gay freight embargo announced on
Wednesday was "the most drastic ever
put into operation" as. he said. 1t was
described in the press. This description
originated in Lehigh Valley freight cir
cles. 1t was qualified in press reports
in recognition of the fact that the road
had sacrificed itself to move coal.