The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-02
HARDINGPLAN
ACCEPTED BY
RAIL UNIONS
Striking Railroad Shop Crafts
Workers Vote to Accept
Proposal for Settlement Of
Strike.
DECISION TELEGRApHED
BULLETIN


CHICAGO. Aug. 2.-The federated
shopcraft today voted approval OF
President Harding's plan to end the
rail strike and appointed committee
to draw up reply accepting the plan.
The reply, however, will be subject 10
amendment by the more than 100 labor
chiefs before going to the president
The first announcement from the la
Dor leaders simply said that they had
voted acceptance. Later it developed
that some opposition had sprung UP
IN the meeting and acceptance might
be made after the text is drawn Up.
For this reason it was made subject
to amendment. The meeting will re-
sumo its session at $3.50 p. N.
| CHICAGO, Aug. 2.-Chiefs of the
striking rail employees today voted TO
accept President Harding's proposal
for ending the rail strike and appoint-
ed committee to draft the acceptance
and to forward it to the president i'm
mediately.
| The actual vote was taken among
the more than 100 chiefs of the six fed
Grated shopcraft under B. NJ Jewell
Timothy Healy, president of the sta
tionary flremen and oilers, the only
other union on strike, announced that
his organization would concur in the
shopcraft's action.
! The proposals were understood to be
the same as those which railroad ex-
ecutives considered at their New York
meeting.
/ The executives rejected the proposal
that strikers be returned to their au-
thorlzed standing on return to work
Refuse to Comment
Union leaders refused to comment
on what results their action might
have on peace prospects.
The action Of the union leaders was
the only outstanding event in the rail
strike today.
The New York Central railroad an
nounced the action of the executive
yesterday concerning seniority had re-
suited in many strikers applying for
work while many roads posted notices
to their men that the seniority rights
would be protected fully
President Harding was said by Sec
, retary OF Commerce Hoover TO be con-
ltemplating no action today concerning
the strike and there was no indication
as to when or where the next peace
, move might arise. Minor disorders
were reported in several sections, but
generally the situation was quiet.
Although chiefs of 148 railroads at
r their meeting yesterday in New York
) voted to reject the seniority proposal
! the belief was current here that this
did not constitute the executives final
word in the matter
W. L. (''Mac') McMenImen, labor
Z group member of the United States
, Labor board, who has been generally
credited with having done much to
prevent the spread of the rail strike
to over a half million women in add
] ton to the shopmen, today departed
I for California on his way to Honolulu
for a vacation.
WASHINGTON, Aug. a. Careful
2 study of the railway executives reply
Y refusing to accepl President Harding
plan for settlement of the shopmen'
strike, so far as it dealt with the Sc
! niority issues, and also that expected
2 from the labor leaders meeting ir
! Chicago, was expected today to pre-
: cede any further move by the execu
= tive in the strike situation There
? had been no indication of what new
!. step, if any, the government planned
2 to take. It was intimated at tbs
White House that the tone of the re
plies and the circumstances under
t which they were made would inflit
i ence to some extent the president
4 decision as TO how the problem would
d be dealt with from this point
e The government, it is known, views
i the railroad strike as serious in effect
0 only because of the present stoppagf
q of coal production In order to cope
with that problem it has been init
e mated repeatedly that the admins
r tration would be disposed to force !;
o quick settlement of the railroad diff
3 culties, even though the necessary
. measures might involve some re-es
i tablishment of the former control o.
o the railroads.
That the immediate effect ,f th'
e rail strike upon freight movement j:
I now confined almost exclusively u
e coal was indicated in report OF
r freight handled by all railroads dur
ing the week ended July %, issued 10
day by the Car Service Division of th'
American Railway association. Th'
report showed that although coal load
ings as compared with the previous
week fell off 1874 cars to a total 0
$1,000 cars, the movement of all othe
commodities was the heaviest 70
this season of the year fany in th'
: history of the carriers It fell. tn
:, report said, just "nine-tenths CT on
= per cent below the peak of October Is
. 1920"
The total of all loading, includini
= coal, was given at s61.124 cars, whic,
the report said exceeded the previou
= week by 217 cars and the correspond
= ing week of last year by 1900 cars
:. although it falls short 1924 cars G
{" the corresponding week in 1872:
Omitting coal, it was said to excee'
the latter by 5s636 cars
i. The total of 76.060 coal cars Ioade
y during the week, the report said, wa
a decrease of 73,745 as compared wit
the same week last year and Dc
: crease of 125.530 from the same wee
= in 1920
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