The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-24
SEPARATE PEACE
IN RAIL STRIKE
NOW is PROGRAM
"It's Up to the ShOpmen," the
Brotherhood Chiefs Say.
About Twenty Roads Continue
in Conference in n. Y.
OTHERS BALK At SENIORITY
Report Movement on Foot for
NatiOn-W Wide Labor Strike.
Resolutions Passed in Number
of Cities, Is Claimed.
About Twenty Roads Continue
in Conference in n. Y.
OTHERS BALK At SENIORITY
Report Movement on Foot for
Wide Labor Strike.

New York, Aug. 24.-It's now up to
the shopmen." said a spokesman for
the big five brotherhood chiefs this
afternoon after they had conferred
with a committee representing a
group of about twenty roads on a
proposition for effecting separate set
Elements between individual roads and
striking shopmen.
Representative of a score of rail-
roads and the big five brotherhood
chiefs conferred at the Yale club for
about three hours today on the posi-
hi'ity OF effecting agreements between
Individual lines and their striking
shOpmen.
I'VE are still nlediacing," said War
ren 5. Stone. Spokesman for the broth
erhoOd when the meeting adjourned at
1:.5 p m. without announcing
whether another session would be held
The chief of locomotive engineers
declined further to discuss the meet
ing which was surrounded by the ut
most secrecy He fastened to the
Hotel Woodstock to confer at labor
headquarters with leaders of station
airy crafts.
Plan Strike in All Trades.
Chicago. Aug. 24.-With the New
York peace conference still holding
the center of the railroad strike stage
today, situations at many railway GEN.
tiers remained acute and disorders con-
tiDUed as the shopmen's strike ap-
preached the end of its eighth week.
The rail strike entered the fifty-fifth
day with reports from Sioux City, Ia,
that plans have been maturing for
weeks for a general nationwide strike
Of orga nized labor. John Shank. sec
retary of the trades and labor as
sembly of Sioux City. was authority
for the statement that a move for
general abor war was on foot. Union
organizations thruout the country
have made demands of the execu-
tive council of the American Fedora
ton of Labor to cali a strike, Shank
said. The Sioux City assembly passed
the resolution following the lead of
central labor organizations in Omaha,
Denver. Detroit, San Francisco and
other Industrial centers. according to
the Sioux City secretary.
Seniority Is Stumbling Block.
New York. Aug. 24.-Members of
the big five brotherhood group OF
rail strike mediators met today at an
uptown hotel and then left hurriedly
for secret conference at an undis-
closed place with representatives of
the small group Of rail executives who
yesterday were ready to take up as in
dividual roads further negotiations.
Tho big five leaders conferred until
after midnight last night with the
heads of a score or more Of executives
who when the general conference ad-
journed expressed willingness to con-
tinue negotiations althO reaffirming
their common stand against the union
seniority proposals. Then. when the
executives left. agreeing to renew their
peace efforts today, the big five re-
turned to their headquarters where
they remained until 1855 this morn
ing, clOseted with B. NJ Jewell. presi-
dent of the striking crafts and eleven
other heads of stationary trades.
What developed was not disclosed.
The failure of a majority of the roads
10 participate in the negotiations
which the so-called minority con-
tinued late last night was ascribed to
two reasons:
Their refusal to recognize the
seniority demands of strikers as q
basis for settlement.
2-Their refusal to consider taking
back all OF the strikers, a point which
President Harding's last proposal
contained, and which the strikers have
consistently demanded. The minor
group was understood to be willing to
take back all their old men, providing
II would be done without necessitating
withdrawal from the stand on
seniority. in which they concurred
with the majority.