Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-08-10
TRAIN CREWS MAY
REFUSE EQUIPMENT
THESE ORGANIZED WORKERS IN.
INNATE sToPPAGE or WORK
UNLESS PEACE COMES.
CONFER WITH PRESIDENT
Big Rail Unions Join in Complaint
That Rolling stock Is In Danger
Gus Condition-May Again
Call OPTICIANS in Farley,

Washington. - Negotiations to end
the strike of railroad shop craftsmen
have been resumed by President Har-
ding and B. M. jewell, president OF the
railway employees department of the
4 uerican Federation of Labor; w. H.
Johnston, president of the machinists,
and j. p. Noonan, head Of the electri
cal workers brotherhood, left the
White House after an hour of confer
ence with the chief executive expect
ing to be recalled later.
1t was not disclosed whether the
president had communicated again
with railroad heads whose refusal this
week to grant his proposal to give re-
turning strikers seniority status termi-
aated the first sediment attempt, but
the strike leaders, in cheerful mood,
said that the proposals, as originally
outlined by the president, constituted
heir "irreducible minimum in seeking
honorable sediment"
Likewise T. E. Wills, J. Paul Steph.
ans and Arthur j. Lowell, representing,
respectively, the engineers, trainmen
and enginemen and firemen, three of
The four brotherhood organizations,
Jaw the president at the instance of
he national chiefs of their orders and
If the switchmens union and present
I'D the possibility that grave prospects
Of further rail unsettlements were in
sight unless the shop situation was
Strengthened out.
1t was understood that while they
lid not set up a possibility of sympa-
;hetic strikes by their memberships,
hey declared conditions of railroad
equipment, locomotives particularly ON
many roads, was growing to be such
hat train crews might refuse service.
No public statement of their report
was made other than that contained in
he message from the brotherhoods' un-
on under which they acted in going
20 the White House, and nothing was
given out officially. They made it
plain, however, that they made no re-
quest of the president for a conference
with the brotherhood chiefs.
Officials Of the shop union, though
informed to a degree concerning rep
.esentations made by the brotherhood
eepres antatives at the White House,
declared they had no connection with
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and rolling stock were deteriorating
was repeated by the union chiefs and
2eld up by them as the influence
which would determine the strike. All
participants held the belief that Prest
lent Harding, if he intended to exc
Else further ouasiCn on the railroad
executives, would ask no further con-
cessioas from the me other han that
involved in his original proposal of ac-
cepting the railroad labor board wage
awards and returning to work pending
rehearings.
Mr.. Jewell and Mr.. Johnson called
On Samuel Gompers after the White
House visit and some of the represen-
tatives of shopmen on strike in east
arn territory were called here for the
weekend to discuss the strike with
the national officers. Mr.. Gompers
rave out a statement which charged
that organized employing and finan-
cial interests were rallying to the sup
port of railroad arrangements in order
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fled union-smashing campaign"