The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-08-17
HOPES FOR
ENDING OF
RAIL T|EUP
Five Brotherhood Heads
Present Peace Plan
to Executives.

NOW VVAA9 <AW6s ASoAAWoy
executives and brotherhood
chiefs, conferring here today IN
an effort to end the country.
wide shopman's strike, had fail.
Cd to reach IN agreement and
Indications were that the pariey
still In progress, might have to
be continued tomorrow. -.
Washington. Aug. 17.-President
Harding today decided to defer his
address to congress on the indus
trial situation until tomorrow or .
later date.
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New York, Aug. 17.-(By the As
sociated Press )-The fifth effort by
an outside agency to end the ma
tion-wide shopmen's strike that be-
gan more than six weeks ago. was
made today when leaders Of the
railroad brotherhoods went into
conference with q committee repre-
senting railroad officials at the
headquarters of the Association of
Railway Executives.
Shortly before 3 o'clock the ex-
ecutives sent out word from the
conference room that they wished
brought in files containing deci-
si0ns by the railroad labor board
in previous strikes.
One decision was made in con-
nection with the switchmen's strike
Of 1920. In decision returned in
October Of that year the board rul-
ed that the strikers were to be de-
prived of their seniority rights.
Another decision sought was one
made in April, 1921, in connection
! with switchmen's strike on south
western roads in which the strik-
ers also were deprived Of their Sc
nfority rights.
Shop craft men held group con-
ferences in their hotel while the
parley was in progress. They
were keeping in close touch with
the progress Of the negotiations
between brotherhood leaders and
executives.
Chicago, Aug. 17.-By the Asso-
ciated Press.)-An end to the
strike Of "big four" transportation
brotherhood members on western
railways improved outlook for
peace in the New York conference
today, shootings, bombings and
burnings were high lights in the
nations railway crisis during the
last "a hours.
Blockades and tie-ups on the
Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe.
Union Pacific, Western Pacific and
Southern Pacific cleared up when
striking train crews called OF their
/ walkout and opened the way to i'm
mediate restoration of traffic on
lines which were paraly3ed by the
strike Of the big four" brother
hoods.
Traffic Is Untangline.
Stranded Santa Fe trains were
moved out Of Albuquerque, N. NJ.
and trainmen at Prescott, Ariz..
notified Santa Fe officials that
strikers would return to work.
These moves followed earlier de-
velopments towards ending the tie
up on the Santa Fe. The Union Pa
cific's traffic knot unraveled rapid
ly after trainmen on the Las Vegas
division. called of their strike.
Other western roads restored
transportation activities which had
been in effect since the shopmen's
strike began July l.
With the train service breaking
up in other sections of the coun-
try, trainmen who interrupted traf-
fic ON the Missouri Pacific at Van
Buren, Ark, refused to return to
! work while guards remained on
duty in the yards. Only trains
which were made up and delivered
to crews outside the railroad yards
were moved.
Settlement of the trouble with
the trainmen resulted in an i'm
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