New-York tribune., 1922-08-28
sIoprnern Deny
Train Service
Is at Normal
Schedules Delayed on
All Lines, Say Strikers,
Replying 10 Officials;
Soanc l5 Hours Behind
u. s. Inquiry Requested
Half Dozen Rail Heads
Prevent Settlement of
Strike, Leader Asserts

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Strike leaders who have been rally
M their men under the slogan De
fective equipment will stop operations
Of the trains in a month yesterday at
tackled the rail heads statement that
there was no slowing up of service be-
cause Of defective equipment.
There would be almost no move
ment OF trains if the Interstate Com
merce Commission would hold the roads
to the legal equipment standards, and
that defective equipment is the one and
only reason for late trains," an official
at the local strike headquarters said
yesterday.
"Only those trains pulled by electric
engines, which require little mechanical
attention, are running on time every
day. Defective steam locomotives and
cars are making it impossible for any
Of the roads to maintain their schcd-
ules. The railroad time boards will
show this is true--that the trains are
not running on time"
U. s. Inquiry Is Asked
In telegram sent yesterday to
Senator Cummins, chairman of the
Senate Interstate Commerce Commit
tee, J ohm j. Dowd, strike chairman for
this district, urges an investigation of
the conduct Of the Association Of Rail-
way Executives. He alleges that the
association has effectually prevented a
settlement of the strike despite con-
ditions, which daily are growing more
desperate.
'The proceedings of this association
have, for the past year, been manipu-
lated and controlled by a small minor
ity Of the membership controlled by
T. Dewitt Cuyler and L. F. Loree,"
the telegram reads. IAN examination
OF individual members of this associa-
tion on the witness stand would reveal
a situation that would startle the
fit both to the American railroad in
dustry and to the public at large"
Elaborating on his. telegram, Mr..
Dowd, in statement made public last
night said that there never can be
peace in the railroad industry while
the Association of Railway Executives
continues to exist.
Says Half Dozen Control
Here Is a union more dangerous
than any labor union ever could be-"
he declared. "This association is a
union of hundred or so men, clothed
with prodigious power and absolutely
controlled by small inner circle of
half dozen men more powerful than
all the other members put together.
"The members af this inner circle
American railroads. They will sacri-
fee shippers and the public; they
will even sacrifice the interests of the
majority Of their fellow members to
gain their nefarious ends. Is this the
one union that is beyond all public
control?"
The majority of commuters trains
those electrically operated-a are main
tanning their schedules, but the steam
hauled trains are making no such rec
ord and are falling as much as fifteen
minutes behind time, according to In
coming train figures on local train
boards.
Banner Trains Delayed
The Twentieth Century, Broadway
Limited and Colonial Express, banner
trains Of the New York Central, Penn
sylvania and New Haven, were all late
yesterday, and have been consistently
failing to maintain their schedules,
The Century has been running about
two hours late, and showed no change
yesterday the Broadway Limited was
more than three hours behind time.
and the Colonial Express about an
hour and quarter.
Southern trNns turned in the worst
record, and New Orleans train due
here at lao yesterday was scheduled
Eastern roads are trying to hold ther
schedules by failing to wait for all
Western and Southern connecting
trains, that are much behind time.
Yesterday Southern connecting trains
81 and 1873, Chesapeake & Ohio train
2, Atlantic Coast Line train So and Sea
board Air Line train 90 were SO far
behind time that Eastern connecting
trains did not wait for them and came
in short.
Western Roads in Trouble, Too
Western roads, although running
much closer to schedules, are also ex-
periencing difficulty III making connec-
tions. The Baltimore & Ohio and New
York Central expresses yesterday ar
rived without their Western connec-
tons.
New York and Keystone expresses Of
the Pennsylvania reported one and
one-half hour late and Boston expresses
l01 and lob of the New Haven pulled
in about an hour after scheduled time.
New York Central has been failing to
to maintain it's schedule of Peekskill.
Poughkeepsie and Albany trains and
trains n, 1873, 2, 81, 10, 80, 6s and Sc
have been arriving from one to three
hours late.
Yesterday trains lit, z, III. go, 154,
TIA and 70 of the Hudson River di
vision and trains so9, 1044 and Sls of
the Harlem division ran about an hour
late. The Troy special and Chicago ex-
presses also fell behind time.