New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-29

ternationai union officers favoring ac-
eeptanee. IL appeared improba bic that
the railroad executives would have the
same favorable recommendation from
their spokesman whom the President
has seen.
Although the union leadership was
understood TO be willing to recommend
calling of she strike on basis which
wonid stin leave their members work
ing at the wage reductions which
caused the strike, the seniority issue.
which has been raised since the walk
out, has beer growing more formidable
each day. Railroads which have been
more or less successful in building up
new shop working forces have indi-
Gated increasingly strenuous objection
70 proposals that any of the new men
be displaced by returning strikers. A
large number of lines, however, in
GLIDING most of those in the Southeast
and Northwest sections of the country,
nave indicated their willingness TO take
back all of their men in the exact posi-
tions which they held at the time of
striking.
The union officials, on the other hand,
appear disposed to resist to the end
any proposals to settle on such roads
as will make the settlement and leave
their members still out on the systems
which are making the efforts to build
up a new force.
Separate Settlements Opposed
President Harding was said to be
convinced, after watching the attempt
of the Baltimore & Ohio 10 make such
separate settlement, that this plan
could not be successfully followed.
There were indications to-day that the
union chiefs, between the several
White House conferences, considered
proposals for separate B. & o. set
Element, and then insisted that their
members on that system refuse to go
back.
Three coalcarrying railroads, the
Norfolk e. Western, Chesapeake g. Ohio
and Louisville & Nashville, have de-
..,e-d embargocs over their lines
a.eafnst the acceptance of any freight
<s'cepa foodstuffs, live stock and fuel
This course was taken under the Inter
state Commerce Commissions declara-
ton of an emergency, which authorized
roads embarrassed by the shopmen's
strike TO show preference and establish
kSiority in transportation.
At the same time the Baltimore &
Ohio lifted a temporary embargo that
lad been put into effect out of St
louis.
Fuel Transportation Pushed
The object of the embargoes de-
eared is to conserve all the equipment
sld facilities of the carriers for the
transportation of coal The roads
serve the non-union bituminous mining
~reas south of the Ohio River, which
have furnished most of the country's
coal output since April /. when the
miners struck in all the unionized
fields, and officials have declared that
the tie-up on their lines indicated rail
road unions were working with the
miners to stop production of soft coal.
All three had been carrying record
breaking quantities of coal until the
shopmen went out, after which their
tonnage was Immediately cut in half.
1t was believed that the first result
Of the embsrgoes would be to increase
coal shipments from the non-union
territory.
Managements of the roads notified
the Commerce Commission that they
would modify the embargo orders a
rapidly az conditions permitted and
gradually accept other classes OF
freight for movement as they were
able to transport it without interfering
with the coal flow
Gains in Shop Work Shown
In railroad circles here to-day it was
asserted that the last three days had
seen a heavy resumption of work in
railroad shops. notwithstanding the
strike of the shop craftsmen. The fig
urcs furnished the Interstate Com
merce Commission under seal of c,an-
fldence were not given out, but it was
declared that more men had been en-
ployed in the three days for shop work
than in the previous fifteen days. The
result was said by road officials to be
fair working condition in all the
trunk system shops. The consolidated
figures reported by all roads, it was
claimed, showed that more men had
been put at work in shops each success
sive day that the strike has run.