The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-17
BELIEVE STRIKE
PEACE IN SIGHT
AT CONFERENCE
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ever. that tomorrow's discussion will
hinge about the original proposition
advanced some weeks ago of dlvid-
ing seniority into three classes:
I. Old men to rank first.
g Returned strikers to rank sec
3 New men TO rank according to
their length OF service, Ne question
OF whether the strikers will have
first place to be left to an impartial
tribunal.
It is known that a majority of the
executives would be willing to accent
such a program, although some OF
the "die-hards" would oppose IL.
Conference Starts Tomorrow,
Officials OF the four powerful
brotherhoods will meet he railway
executives in New York tomorrow
about the same time the president
goes to the capital to tell congress
how serious the situation is. and
there IL good reason To believe some.
thing will come OF the Joint con-
ference.
President Harding's message to
congress, 1t was understood today
Will embrace virtually the follow
Ing:
ne DIfblbfnL VIII tel COn-
Agress the whole story" beginning
with the Herrin massacre and wind
Ing mp with the Arizona deserts
where train crews abandoned trains
1t desert terminals.
>. He will recount every step
taken by the government to try to
md the strike by peaceful means and
give the reason for their failure.
3. lie will then nguratively wash
his hands" of the Whole situation
and inform congress the government
has reached the end OF its rope in
!rylng to establish peace.
4. He will affirm the govern
ment's intention of affording pro-
lection to those railroads able to
maintain service by troops, II nee
sssary and for those roads unable to
fulfill their public obligations he
viii suggest other means--probabiy
federal receiverships.
Has Big Club.
Looming IN the background OF the
presidents message is a final alter
ynative should these steps fail to
maintain the roads-governmen
seizure-but 1t was undecided today
whether this threat should be given
place In tomorrows communlca-
lion. Whether II Is there or not,
Administration officials asserted to-
lay, It is ever present as the gov
.rnments final alternative.
The weight of presidential nes-
mge coming on top OF a presidential
order that the safety rules affecting
locomotives must be enforced Is ex-
peCted to have SOLDERING effect
upon both the "dle-hard" executives
and "hard-boiled" leaders among
The striking railroad workers. And
rightly or wrongly, administration
officials were confident today that
something VIII come of tomorrow's
Joint conference between the eXecu-
uves and the union leaders.
MURPHYSBORO, H., Aug. l6.-
Approximately i50 striking miners
forced the crew OF a Mobile Il Ohio
train to sidetrack five cars OF coal
az Willisville. 10 miles north OF here,
ms afternoon. which was bound for
East st. Louis. according to an an
nouncement tonight by +. L. Norris
vice president of the railroad.
\ Vice President Norris said the
coal had been in storage here since
the strike began and that II was be-
Ing moved to East st. Louis for the
use of the railroad when it was
found impossible to bring coal from
the nonunion fields OF Kentucky
through southern Illinois. Several
deputy marshals were in the Willis
vile district, Norris declared. but
we're unable to cope with the sltua-
tions
EAST ST. LOUIS, H., Aug. l6.-
An injunction. forbidding striking
coal miners in southern lllionis to
interfere with the transportation OF.
coal. has been granted to the Mobile
& Ohio railroad by Federal Judge
George w English here. In its pc
tition for the injunction, officials Of
the road declared that miners sew
eral times had forced train crews
10 sidetrack coal cars running from
the nonunion fields OF Alabama and
Kentucky.
SAN BERNARDTNO. Cal, Aug. l6.
Several persons were reported TO
have been injured by rocks thrown