Evening star., 1922-07-20
ROADS WILL YIELD
WITHIN TWO Weeks,
SAYS UNION LEADER
Will CapituIate When I'VE
Bring Them to Knees"
Jewell Declares.
STRIKE LEADERS FIRM
FOR SENIORITY RIGHTS
Lack of Coal and Repairs to
Equipment Brings More Train
Curtailments.
By the Associa ted Press.

By the Associat ted Press.
CHICAGO. July COB. NJ. Jewell,
president of the six federated shop
roads will capitulate and settle the
strike within two weeks.
The strike Is becoming more effec-
tive daily, he said. land the roads will
yield as soon as we bring them to
their knees"
The railroad executives statements
on the seniority question were char
acterized by MIR. Jewell as camouaage
designed to cover up the real issue
a national adjustment board.
The executive board of the striking
unions will meet this afternoon to
consider an answer to the statement
issued by the railroad officials last
night.
Cannot Justify Fight.
The railroads know they cannot
justify their fight against the national
adjustment board before the public"
Mr. Jewell said. The board would
take working rules disputes off the
hands of the Railroad Labor Board.
except in cases of appeals, and leave
the board free to devote practically
all its time to wage questions"
The transportation act provides for
the establishment of adjustment
boards" and attempts have been
made several times by board MEM
bers to have regional adjustment
bodies established, but without sue
cess. When the national agreement
was up for revision last year. the
board was broached by the unions,
but nothing ever came of 1t.
Mr. Jewell said today that the
unions opposed regional boards be-
cause two or three different bodies In
different sections would be trying to
various parts of the same system,
and nothing but confusion would re-
suit. Regional boards" he said.
would mean war and not peace on
the railroads.
Pending his meeting with the exedu-
declined to comment on the stEte--
ment of the railroad executives.
Hooper Ends Efforts.
With immediate prospects for peace
in the railway strike gone. strikers
and railroads today settled to q test
Of strength. The statement Of Chair
man Hooper Of the Railroad Labor
engaged in peace negotiations left
the situation open to direct negotia
ton between strike leaders and rail-
road operators, or other quarters.
Union leaders remained firm in their
demand that full seniority rights be
restored to the shopmen now on
strike. that being the rock on which
peace efforts were broken. Railroad
heads were fully insistent that
seniority rights of men now at work
he recognized. There was no indica
ton from either side of a weakening
of the determination to carry the
point at issue.
Reports today indicated a gradual
extension of the curtailment of trans
portation. some portion, however, be-
ing due to the coal situation. but the
ma ior part because of lack of repairs
to equipment. Reports were that the
strike is being felt by the iron and
steel industries; that coal mines in
parts of West Virginia are without
coal cars and that a portion of the
fruit crop of the Pacific coast is en-
dangered by lack of transportation.
strikers Ranks Augmented.
Ranks of the strikers were aug
menteu by walkouts in other unions
Yesterday, and indications today were
that there would be further acces-
sious.
Reports of violence fell Off some
what. but troops were called out in
two more states. and isolated shoot
ings and whippings continued. Al
Kansas City general chairman Of
the maintenance of way mems union,
in telegram to President E. F. Gra-
BILE, said that members Of that union
in the southwest would strike of
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