New-York tribune., 1922-09-12
Shop Strike on So Roads
Is Likely TO End To-day
Opponents of Willard Proposal
Contend Acceptance You'd
ImpeFis Union Solidarity

Special Dispatch 10 The Tribune
CHICAGO, Sept. 11-SettIement of
the railroad shipments strike of fifty
two railroads may come to-morrow, &c
was indicated here to-day, after the
first meeting of the union policy com
mittee here to-day An agreement to
end the walkout along hhe lines of
the plan agreed to by B. NJ. Jewell,
director of the strike, and Daniel Will
lard, president of the Baltimore &
Ohio, would be step toward a gen.
eral settlement, it was said, and this
fact is reported to have inspired the
unexpected and bitter opposition TO
the plan expressed at the COMMITTEES
meeting
Opponents of the plan, which calls
for separate peace with each of the
roads affected, with committees of five
adjudicating differences, instead of a
national agreement as first demanded
bv Jewell, say it would be tantamount
TO defeat.
Acceptance of this pfan," said one
spokesman for the strikers, would
admit defeat of the unions and would
weaken our entire organization, espe-
cially as it permits the strike breakers
to remain in the shops"
Strike leaders continue to demand
that all strikers be taken back, res aAl-
less of their actions during the strike;
that they resume work within thirty
days after the agreement is signed and
that they be given the same seniority
rights they enjoyed when they went on
strike. The rail executives are Just as
p sitive in their refusal to take back
any man. guilty of violence and they
will not restore seniority rights. or
throw out the men now in the shops.
Jewell Has Difficult Task
The greatest difficulty Mr.. Jewell has
to face, according to members cf HIS
0olicy committee, is the fact thaS tbs
Willard plan applies to not more tnam
a third of the total mileage of the
untry Thus, while only a third Of
the membership of the shopcrafts
union would be benefited by the sep-
arate agreements provided for in the
lizard plan, Mr. Jewell must get the
votes of the men representing the
other two-thirds before he can COM
clude his negotiations. Nctwithstand-
ing this handicap. his friends are con-
fident his leadership and diplomacy
will triumph.
Opponents of the plan say acceptancs
OF the Willard scheme would leave q
majority of the strikers "out in the
cold" to battle for themselves as best
they can.
Mr.. Jewell and those of his friends
who are now in favor of taking the
best offer in sight realize something
must be done quickly, as the strikers
are returning to the shops in largs
numbers. Twensy-one strikers in 4
body reported back to work in the Chi
cago & Alton shops at Bloomington
! HI. to-day, and fifty-fve strikers or
the same road returned to work al
Slater, No. These two cities were ho;
beds OF trouble in the early stages ot
/ the strike, troops being stationed a,
Bloomington after some serious riot
ing. More than 1000 men are now en-
rolled at the shops in Bloomington
/ and Slater, and the strike is over a,
far as they are concerned. The radi
calls nave gone to other points, as ther,
were no places for them.
May Govern Canadian Aegien
R. J. Talon, of the Canadian shop
4 men, said call for strike in ca,
! Canadian shops hinged largely upoi
the action Of the shoperafts here
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