Bisbee daily review., 1922-07-25
FAVOR DRAST TIC MOVE LOOKING | .TO SETTLEMENT BY GOVERNMENT Declare Government Cannot | Permit Breakdown of Com
 merce to Go Further
 SENIORITY DEADLOCK Advisors Assure Harding of
 Power to Compel Decisive
 Action to End Strike

WASHINGTON, July 24.-(By the Associated Press) While on the sur lace, concrete developments in the railroad strike are lacking in Wash ington today, the impression gained in official circles was that the situa- l-tion was being rapidly shaken down. to point where new move by the administration could be expected Cabinet members, who discussed the cituation, invariably declared that President Harding was in personal charge of the question, and though there was more than the belief that the cabinet would be called upon to consider 1t at the regular session to- morrow, no hint was forthcoming as to the manner in which the transpOr- tation crisis would be laid before the presidents official family.
 Further evidence was obtained. how ever, that some of the chief execu- tive's advisors have urged that the government cannot permit the break down of the country's arteries of con- merce to go further while waiting for the railroad managements and shop men to dispose of their differences.
 Official reports have been received, 1t is known, giving details of the ex- tent to which the strike has been re- sponsible for the total "blanketing'' Of the healthy business revival in tho United States and while instances Of direct interference with the United States mails have recently been con- splcuously absent. postal inspectors today recorded the further annullment of important mail trains
 Some administration advisors who favor drastic move by the govern ment, are declared to hold the view that President Harding should de- mand that the railroad executives make every effort to restore inter- state commerce, especially to the ex- tent of abandoning their stand of the seniority issue-said to be the crux of the whole strike question. where upon the disputants would be expect ed to come together on the matter of "a fair living wage for railroad em- ployes, conceded to be the remaining important issue
 If the railroad executives refused. it was declared. the president, satisfied he has full authority and duty dele gated him by the constitution, to main tain interstate commerce and the mail service, could proceed to operate the roads.
 The president. it is understood. has been assured by his advisors that his authority for decisive action. without recourse to congress, is without ques- tion. Two courses would be open to him in order physically to operate the roads, it was said. First. he could re- quest the strikers to return to work under government operation at the old wage scale, and with seniority rights restored If this failed. then federal troops could be called upon to assure operation of the trains.
 The first course, the president is understood to believe, would be ac- ceptable to the strikers. who would see in it the equalization of the rail road executives, and victory won for labor. The chief contention of the strikers. it was saN. has developed into a fight for seniority. with the wage dispute becoming subordinate.
 There is little disposition in govern ment circles to consider meeting the emergency by actually putting the lines under government operation. Powers given the interstate com merce commission in the transporta- tion act were cited as making this move unnecessary