The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1922-09-22
SHOPMEN WILL
RETURN TO WORK
SENIORITY QUESTION is NOT
MENTIONED IN AGREEMENT
REACHED AT MEETING
Dispute Over Standing OF Men viii
Be Settled by Adjustment Board
Made up of Workers
And Executives

Chicago. Members of the sho
crafts policy committee. who Wednes
day approved peace plans for endln
the railroad strike, through separat
agreements with individual railroads
Thursday began separate settlement
negotiations under terms of the agree
ment
Instructions TO various system fed
GRAFTON officials to enter signator.
negotiations and arrange agreement
with their roads. were sent out from
union headquarters by b. M. Jewell
chief strikeleader, and head of this
railway employees department of the
American Federation of Labor
Policy committee members scatter
ed to their respective baliwicks soon
after the settlement, plan was adopted
Railroad systems counted among
those expected to sign the agreement
Immediately or soon were said to num-
Der between 80 and GO of the POP
class / roads of the country.
The mileage affected Thursday was
estimated at about $4,000 of the $780,
900 miles of trackage in the United
States.
The text of instructions to Off
Gals of system declarations would re-
main confidential, Mr.. Jewell said. He
said also that union leaders would not
make public at this time a list of the
roads which agreed because il will
probably be augmented by new sign
ers as the result of a continuous SER
ready in the agreement.
Under the terms of the peace plan,
shopmen are TO return to work under
wage scales prescribed by the United
July l, the date the strike began in
protest against the boards decisions.
The question of seniority which
proved to be the chief barrier to an
Iy mentioned in the agreement. The
agreement made no mention either
of working system or the contract
system for farming out" shop work
which with the wage controversy were
the original issues in the strike.
Disputes over the relative standing,
Of employees, and new disputes which
might arise as outgrowths of the
strike, shall under the peace terms,
ire referred to adjustment boards COM
posed of Representatives of the car
-iers and their employees If the dis
)utes can not be settled as an in
lividual matter between an employee |
md his road.
The agreement requires the sigma
DRY roads to find places for all re- |
urned strikers within 30 days after 1t
becomes available. Strikers who have |
committed acts of violence are not
protected in the agreement to restore
ormer jobs to employees.
Much of the credit for effecting sep
rate settlements was given by the
hop crafts executive council to S.
Davies Warfield. president of the Sea-
oard Air Line and head of a rail-
Dad securities company said to con-
rol $4,000, 100000 of stock. Confer
noes between Mr.. Warfield, Mr.. jew
II and Daniel Willard. president OF
he Baltimore and Ohio, in Baltimore.
arly this month, opened the way to
ne agreement. 1t was Mr.. Warfield
-ho stuck to the finish for virtually
MS kind of settlement in the con-
erences at New York last month be-
veen railway executives and chiefs
the transportation brotherhoods,
ne latter acting as meditators for the
hopcrafts. I
Among the larger systems said to
e included In the rail peace agree
tent at the start were:
The New York Central lines and
including the Michigan
entral and Big Four: Chicago and
orthwestern and subsidiaries Balti-
ore and Ohio; Seaboard Air Line; ,
,uthern railway chesapeake and ,
hio. and the Alonon. ,