The New York herald., 1922-07-19
STRIKE SETTLEMENT
/ SEEMS NEARER HERE
Agreement With 100000
Employees Is on Basis
Favorable to Them.
MARINE WORKERS OUT
Labor Committee Says 1t
Will Tie Up LOc0m0- J
tive Repairs.
EXECUTIVES TO CONFER
Men Laid Off at Navy Yard Go
in Body to Work in Rail-
road Shops.
EXECUTIVES TO CONFER

Leaders In the railroad shopmen's
strike contended yesterday that the
strike had extended to the marine
workers in the repair yards Of the
Central Railroad of New Jersey at
Communipaw. thus Gripping the roads
tugs and lighters and ferry service.
and that it gave evidence Of spreading
to the locomotive shops doing rail-
way repair work. There were. how
ever, indications Of a settlement.
The Pennsylvania Railroad an
nounced that it had signed an agree
ment with its 100000 employees-shop
crafts. maintenance Of way men. sig
nalmen, clerks and miscellaneous
workers-covering an entirely new
wage scale, and that all men returning
to work would come under the new
| agreement.
| The agreement Is said to be more
advantageous to the men than the
wage scale set by the United States
Railroad Labor Board. The workers
are to have voice in the manage
ment Of the road and a permanent
| method of settling controversies by
arbitration is agreed on. Road officials
said all jobs would be filed in two or
three days.
New York Central Men Wait.
Other DEVELOPMENTS foreshadowing a
| possible settlement Included acceptance
ty the New York Central OF the sugges-
ticn Of William Parker. head Of the sys-
| TENS maintenance of way men. for a
conference with road officials. w. J..
Fripp, general manager of the New York
Central lines east Of Buffalo, notifie ed
Mr.. Parker that a conference would be
| fixed at an early date.
This practically removes the possibil-
ity OF any concerted action by the New
York Central men In advance OF a gen.
| erAl strike order which e. F. Cradle, ma
ticnal head Of the maintenance of way
men. SO far has refused to issue. Mr.
Cradle Is to address the Grand Lodge
! Of the Maintenance of Way Brotherhood
tomorrow. when he Is expected, to ad
wise against a countrywide walkout il
conjunction with the shopmen.
The third important road in the loca
district on which the way men have re
fused to Join an outlaw walkout Is tn,
Long Island. James II. Kinney, genera
chairman Of the Long Island way men
refused to attend conference of genera
chairmen at Philadelphia called by T. C
Carroll, president of the association O
chairmen. Mr.. Kinney said he regarded
the present shopmen's strike as bein,
cnly a contest between railroad presi
cents and union bosses.
"May BE Settlement This week.
A statement issued at strike head
quarters contained this sentence:
|, I'VE believe the strike can be settle,
ffis week. but We can hold and exten
our lines indefinitely"
Observers regarded It as a beginnin
. CT the jockeying for position that usual
precedes conference in which strik
leaders seek to get as much as they ca
of their original demands.
: A committee headed by William r
Kehoe, secretary OF the Central Trade
end Labor Council, will call on Mayo
Ilyian to-day and present evidence of al
e legged violations Of city ordinances by tn
railroads in the housing of strikebreak
4 ers. They say unsanitary and dangerou
! conditions exist and VIII ask the Mayo
] 70 exercise bis power through the Healt
\ Department. Last week when Mayo
. Frank Hague OF Jersey City caused th
: police to eject Erie strikebreakers fror
: cars the road got a Federal injunctio
: Restraining the officials
e The central strike committee said
will call out the shopmen of the Ameri
: can Locomotive Company at Paterson
: Schenectady. Dunkirk and Richmond
I Both the New York Central and tn
Z Erie have sent locomotives to thes
e shops for repair.
al Train Service Improves.
Train service at the Grand Contra
Terminal and Pennsylvania Static
= showed Improvement. Both sections O
the Twentieth Century Limited fror
Chicago arrived on time and the VOL
I VERNE of the Michigan Central also wa
L punctual.
Officials of the Lackawanna said tn
road was experiencing some engin
0 trouble---due to the coal strike rathe
> than the shopmen's. The soft coal an
coke they are using are clogging tn
? engines. Strike leaders saYd the troubl
was that the cleaners had quit thei
7 jobs.
Federal authorities continued thei
preparations to meet an emergenc,
2 More special deputy mashals were swor
! in the office Of William c. Hecht. Unite
States Marshal for southern New Yori
e and a special force Of deputies organize
some months ago was mobilized b.
Sheriff Kingley of Bergen county. N. .
The latter we're armed with tear ga
bombs and were instructed in a fiel
near Hackensack
Executive heads Of most Of the East
ern roads will confer tomorrow, eithe
: at the Metropolitan Club or at tn
Bankers Club. They are expected {
reiterate their contention that the strils
Is not one against the roads. but agains
the Government as represented by tn
, labor board.
; Fifty machinists. civilian employee
of the New York Navy Yard in Brook
, lyn. who we're laid off, were reported
have gone in a body to the Meado'
shops of the Pennsylyania