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E:fIIIII.'AY STRIKE
Harding and Union Leaders Draft
Proposals at Conference.
| TO &c LAID BEFORE ROADS
Complete Secrecy in Regard to Details
of Scheme is Maintained by Con-
ferees-Cuy!er Also a Visitor

Washington, july 2o.-Trhi"tiVe pro
nnsals for the settlement OF me rali
road shOpnen'S strike We're drawn up
n1ter u series OF conferences between
President Harding and labor leaders
headed hy 3. Nj Jewell OF the STOP
men Union.
Il was understood thar the suggest
Ell plan for settlement, details oi
which were withheld bE those paftlcl
batting in its formulation, would Ut
| submitted, later TO executives 81 the
! railroads.
! The conference between railroa.t Ia
| Dor leaders and President Harding a
rh,, White House adjourned after !
! trr.e and a half hour session. d. VI
| Jewell and his associates sHid they
| Womb! remain III the city, bat did h"t
! Indicate what their plans were
! President Harding first mci II con
! ference +. Dewitt CuHter, haillhai
Of the Association of Railway hAt'n
| ti\es. the meeting with the strike lead
erS following.
Jewell and his colleagues Went lh'I
| conference With the president shortly
| after CuNier had concluded an noun
and a halfs discussion OF tn" STRIKE
| situation with Harding.
| Mr.. Cuyler on leaving the me
H,..St. said he had presented tie view
point of The railroad manaseiheh'S ah'
Inat ne would remain i'll Washington
! ITO await the pleasure OF the pfesl
dent" hut that there had been no de
| yel0pment in the situation.
Cuyler indicated thar he would re
turn 10 the White House for another
! conference after the president had dis
| cussed the situation with the STRIKE
leaders. Pressed for an opinion as Il
| whether seniority was the sole STUN
bling block in the way OF settlement
he said he had seen no statement from
| Mr.. Jewell Oh the point and could not
therefore. say whether that was TN
position taken by the unions.
The strike leaders held Il brief con
ference at their hotel before going Il
Inc " Mite House, the heads OF the 81!
International unions meeting with WI
liam II. Johnston, president Of the III
1eina1ional Association of Machinists
another of the labor organizations III
viewed in the strike Jewell parucl
pated iii the conference only for feY
minutes. Just before If adjourned.
All of the strike leaders malhtalhe'
i,,;..ltise silence regarding their Nlsl
Ia Washington prior 10 seeing the pres
i,ienJ. even refusing To say Whethe
| lli., came at the invitation Of Hardin
Ga. anon Their own initiative. The ger
cad belief. however. WAS that Secre
| tury OF Labor Davis during his confer
| tncp with Jewell last week at Moose
| heart ILL.,, had suggested the leader
come To Washington and that they ha
acted upon that suggestion after DE-
Wis had acquainted the president vii
! it
.ih- union chiefs who conferred VII
the president, IN addition TO Jewe
and Johnston, included Timothy Heal.
president Of the tiremen's Organize
ton. J. W. Kline, president of blaci
smiths: J. A. Franklin, president {
the nuiiermakers NJ +. Ryan. pres
| dent of the carmen James Burns, vic
| president of the Sheet Metal Worker?
Union. and Edward Evans. vice pres
| den; of the International sBrotherhoa
| of Electrical Workers.