The New York herald., 1922-07-30
ROADS SEEK HOOVER
help FOR SENIORITY
Will Appeal to Secretary
for Support at Forthcom-
ing Meeting.
STILL STANDING FIRM
To Give In Would Cause
Shop Officials to Quit,
Is Argument.
POLICE HELD IN RAIL CASE
Charged With Interfering
POLICE HELD IN RAIL CASE
Charged With Interfering
With Mails After Jersey City
Disturbance.

to yield on the question of seniority
rights il that is to be one of the
conditions of President Harding's
Zine of settlement" when the Asso-
citation OF Railway Executives meets
the striking shopmen Tuesday. One
OF the officers of the Erie Railroad
said last night:
I'VE feel it would be treating our
loyal men most unfairly to take the
strikers back over their heads. and ii
is our belief that the public thinks the
same way, 1t would not be humane"
The Chamber Of Commerce Of the
State of New York wired to President
Harding urging that "any settlement
should give full recognition to the
loyal railroad employees who during
this assault upon established govern
ment and the life of the nation kept
trains moving by continuing at work. -
Says Key Men Would Quit.
Another railroad official said II the
strikers were taken back with full
restoration of their seniority rights there
would be Wholesale designations Of
supervisory shop Officers. which would
amount to strike in officialdom."
1T has become a point of honor" he
said. Pledges have been given men
who are now remaining at work at peril
to their lives and families. If those who
ported they want to get out. Their
posts would cease to be tolerable, they
say"
Strong representation to this effect
will be made to Herbert Hoover. Secre-
tary of Commerce. at the Tuesday con-
ference. the official said.
Loree Wires Senators.
l.. f. Loree. chairman of the Eastern
Presidents Conference. sent a telegram
TO Senators wadsworth and Calder in
which he said: so far as am advised
President Harding has made no effort
to inform himself as to the position OF
more than l75.o0O shopmen now on rail-
road payrolls." and that II am amazed
at information floating about regarding
the attitude of the Administration ir the
railroad strike" Mr.. Loree said he put
the interests of more than $4,000 shop
men employed in this State" In the
hands OF the Senator'S for safeguarding.
A telegram purporting to have been
sent bv 1000 shop craft workers Of the
New Haven Railroad to President Har-
ding asks him TO be loyal to the shop
men who did not strike in return for
their having been loyal to the public In
the crisis. 1t read in part:
1--WE are making every effort and are
doing our best 10 carry on the work of
TRANSFORMATION for the benefit Of society.
We have stepped into the breach In this
crisis In order that our institutions and
Government might live. and strongly feel
that you should be loyal to those who
have been loyal to you"
Dowd Attacks Board.
The metropolitan district strike com.
mittee. John j. Dowd chairman. issued
a statement attacking the National In
dustrial Conference Board as 'propa
ganda publicity bureau for open shoI
interests. The statement says:
road shopmen's wages is no exception
TO the rule. We warn the public not tt
accept it's conclusions either as Impair
tial or accurate. The report Is, In fact
grossly misleading and based upon seri-
| ous errors of statistical method.
Mr.. Dowd. discussing the situation II
| eeneral. said IL had boiled down to ''ar
endurance test between President Har'
ding and the United States Government
on the one hand, and Gen. Atterbury to
| the Pennsylvania lines) and his wal
Street clique. on the other
"The President has made 1t perfectly
clear" he said, that the Atterbury
group should recede from their extreme
stand on the seniority question. Mon
DAVIS meeting of the Eastern executives
will be a turning point in the strike. i
the Atterbury clique cannot find a basis
/ for settlement In the Presidents pro-
posals peace will be postponed.
The shop crafts can win In an oper
| firht. Let there be no mistake about
that II the executives force 1t we vii
fight, and within a month we will win
But we hope that Mondays meeting viii
eliminate that necessity. 1t is up to thu
/ General now"
Police Held I'm Rail Riot.
Tho Erie management Is OBSERVING
! closely the clash between the Fedora
and municipal authorities in Jersey City
Policeman George Barnhart and james
Dunn OF the Second precinct station,
Jersey City, are under $4,000 bail eacl
on charges Of conspiracy TO interfer'
with the United States malls and In
/ terstate commerce and an assault upoi
a United States marshal
I On Thursday night several traini
we're stoned Vincent Keupe, Unitet
1 States Marshal, and George @. Valen
tine, a special policeman of the rail
road, attempted to arrest man wht
they say threw stones at a train.
crowd surrounded them and they callet
Policeman Barnhart and Dunn. wh'
were near by.
According 10 Keupe and Valentine
the two policemen refused 10 assis
them. Instead, they aliege. the.
honored a complaint made by Mrs
Benbetta Mikotsky OF 1872 Eleventh
street. who alleged Keupe and Valen
tine assaulted her.
During the day yesterday Unite,
states Marshal James Mulheron. Il
charge OF the New Jersey district, mad
an Investigation, which resulted in for
NAL complaints being made to Commis
sioner Hendrickson, who issued tn
warrants for the arrest of the tw
policemen.
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