The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-29
Five Divisions of Plan Made
Public at Capitol Today.
Entire Success Hinges on Two
Meetings Next Tuesday.
STRIKE WON'T SEE SIXTH WEEK
ShOpmen and Executives Allke
in an Optimistic Mood.
Western Railroads Only Ones
Inclined to DisfayOr Plans.


Washington, July 29.-Presldent
Harding today began the actual dra1t-
ing of a peace program which he mas
every confidence will be accepted by
both railway executives and strikers
and will result in the paralyzing ueup
ending not later than next Wednes-
day.
From a high official source it was
learned that the presidents program
is virtually as follows:
Five Points in Plan.
l. Strikers will return to work on
all roads at the reduced wage scale
recently decreed by the railway labor
board. pending a rehearing of the
case
? Strikers will return with their
seniority unimpaired by the walkout'
except that those union men who re-
mained on the job shall retain tne
seniority to which they are enutled-
Seniority for strike ebreakers Will De
determined Dy their length of service
3 Demand for national adjustment
board TO be left open for future dis
cussion.
Labor Board To Be law"
4. Working rules modified by the
railway labor board, such as time and
subject OF an early rehearlng oy the
labor board
>. Settlement to be based upon a
national agreement and not individual
or regional agreements
Back of the whole program lies the
understanding clearly made in the
series of White House conferences
this week that when the strike is
over, both sides hereafter will live up
TO the decisions of the labor board
tBy the Associated PressJ
Chicago. July 29.-As the strike of
fifth week today the outlook for peace
was bright and in rail circles here the
belief was ex Iressed that the walkout
would not last into the sixth week.
Watch Tuesday Meetings.
Meetings were set for Tuesday both
by the rail chiefs and workers on
strike at which times President Hard
ings plan for a settlement was ex-
pected to be acted upon. The con-
ference of rail heads the call for which
was issued Thursday by T. Dewitt
CuyIer, chairman of the Association
in New York Representative of the |
strikers will meet in Chicago in |
answer to word sent out last night !
by B. NJ. Jewell, head of the shop |
workers organization TO the so gen
eraI chairmen.
OlACES III 4OOs
At the same time notice was given
to twenty-five general chairmen of the |
stationary firemen and oilers union |
which ordered a strike of 5000 men a |
week following the shopmen's walk |
out by Timothy Healy. head of the |
union. that a meeting would be held /
here Tuesday to discuss settlement of
the strike of that organization.
The presidents plans were not made /
public However, it became known /
,, cot tive -
braced settlement of all the strikers |
grievances except the wage question, ]
which would be submitted to the rail- |
road labor board for rehearing-
Western Roads Disagree.
Western railroads have been insist |
ent that men now at work should be /
placed at the head of seniority lists, /
thus recognized, there would be no in
centive for men to stay at work in the /
event of a strike in the future.
May Amend the Law.
Another demand of the strikers in
cluded in the settlement program was
the setting up of national and regional 4
adjustment boards to expedite the ad-
tion would be left to the labor board,
the striking shopmen to recognize the
boards wage reduction decision and
return to work with the assurance
that their case would receive prompt
attention by Che board.
In addition the administration is
understood to have assured the shop
men that it will make every effort to II
have labor sections OF the Esch Cum
minis bill amended so that the labor /.
board may be directed to fix the paw l]
of the workers on a living wage basis.
More Violence in shop Strike.
Chicago July 2s.-Two men were !
shot. another was kidnapped and a
orders attributed to the strike of rail-
way shopmen.
The shooting occurred at the Burn
side shops of the Illinois Central rail-
road when a squad OF nonunion work
ers under guard passed a group of
strikers assembled in front of the
home OF Clifford Bailey. The strikers
are alleged TO have hurled missiles at
the workers.
Deputy Marshal ]. NJ Morgan.
guarding the workers. shot Bailey in
the thigh. Carl Baltakis. also
striker, was struck by another bullet. {
Hold Out Against Seniority.
Chicago. July 29.-Expressing a be-
lief the employers and manufacturers
II the Chicago territory are opposed '
10 railroad executives yielding on the /
question of seniority involved in the &
present shop crafts strike, the Illinois '
association sent a tele- {
gram today to President Harding, add I
ng that: We hope you will not insist 4
m their making this sacrifice. We be- ]
ieve the principle involved is vital and I
Z disregarded will cause trouble in 6
he future"