The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-07-22
CALLS SENATORS
CURING HOOPER CONFERENCE
IN PLAN TO END RAIL STRIKE
CunninS, Kellogg and Wat
son Report on Meeting
With Executives.
SITUATION OUTLINED.
Labor Board Head Tells Hard
ing of Negotiations Held
in Chicago.

WASHINGTON. July 22.-Shortly
after noon Secretary OF War Weeks
was summoned to the White House
for conference with President Har-
ding. Chairman Ben w. Hooper Of
the Railroad Board and Senators
Cummins, Kellogg and Watson.
WASHINGTON, July 80 (\sso-
ciatcd Press) Chairman Rcn W.
Hooper of the United states Railroad
Labor Board. arriving here to-day in
response to II summons from the
White House. went into conference
with President Harding prepared to-
give the Executive Il complete survey
of the railroad strike situation and
the recent negotiations conducted with
view to bringing about settlement
The Labor Board Chairman went 70
the White House soon after arriving
here from Chicago and the Presidents
list of engagements for the day had
been arranged so as to allow an i'm
mediate conference of as great Il
length as the conferces might desire.
After the conference had been in
progress nearly an hour, Chairman
Cummins Of the Senate Interstate
Commerce Committee. who with other
committee members conferred with
Eastern railroad executives on the
strike situation Thursday night, was
called to the White House
Senators Watson of Indiana and
Kellogg of Minnesota. the other mem
bers OF the committee who conferred
with the railroad executives, also
were summoned to the White House.
Daniel Willard, President of the
Baltimore and Ohio, conferred to-day
with members of the Senate Interstate
Commerce Committee and advised
them of the move for Il separate
settlement of the strike among the
roads employees. A conference is to
he held Tuesday at Baltimore. Sena-
tors were advised, upon call IN cir
cular issued yesterday by Mr. Willard
to the shop crafts employees of that
| road. The circular stated that the
employees owed it to the public to
| make an effort to settle their diff
| culties between thcmslvese il possible
in friendly conference.
Several of the questions involved in
| the Baltimore and Ohio conference
were whether the men would agree to
| a separate settlement, whether the
| union leaders would approve such q
| settlement and whether the men
| would accept a settlement which
| might be made by their union leaders.
Senators Cummins, Watson and
Kellogg left the conference when
President Harding prepared to go to
| lunch, but 1t was said that Chairman
Hooper would continue his discussion
of the situation with the Presidetn at
the White House luncheon table.
No statement would be made by tho
Senatorial participants, except that
they Ind given the views Of the strike
situation which they developed in con-
ference with the railroad executives.
WASHINGTON, July 22.-Chair,
man Ben w. Hooper arrived to con.
fer with Harding feeling of optinI
ism was prevalent among Administra
| tion officials. Cabinet members BE-,
lieved that n settlement could be II.
fected in the near future. This be.
lief was based on the willingness OF
an increasing number of roads tC
take back the strikers and the infer
ence Of y. f Grabble, President OF
the Maintenance Of Way employee
that the strike order Of his unior
would not be exercised.
In some quarters it was feared tha
the 100000 men estimated to have
been hired by the railroads to NJ
strikers vacancies constitute a bar,
rier to a settlement. These men were