Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-08-06
Expect to Be Recalled by
President Tomorrow.
Call on Gompers.
BROTHERHOOD ENJOYS
SAY CREWS MAY BALK
Condition of Equipment Blamed.
Peace on Southern Up to Men,
Declares Jewell.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
Negotiations to end the strike OF
railroad shop crafts men were resum-
ed yesterday by President Harding
and B. NJ Jewell, president Of the
railroad employees department of the
American Federation of Labor. w.
H Johnston, president of the ma
chinists, and j. P. Noonan. head of
tho electrical workers brotherhood,
left the White House after an hour
of conference with the chief execu-
tive, expecting to be recalled tomor-
row.
1t was not disclosed whether the
President had communicated again
with railroad heads, whose refusal
EAST week to grant his proposal to
give returning strikers back seniority
status terminated the first settle
ment attempt, but the strike leaders,
in cheerful mood, said after tho con-
ference that the proposals. as orig
inally outlined by the President, con-
stituted their "irreducible minimum
IN seeking honorable settlement"
Tell Of Dangers.
Likewise. H. E. Wills, J. Paul
Stephens and Arthur j. Lowell, rep
resenting. respectively. the engineers.
trainmen and enginemen and fire.
men. three OF the four brotherhood
organizations, saw the President at
the instance of national chiefs Of
these orders and of the switchmen's
union and presented tho possibility
that grave prospects of further rail
unsettlement were in sight unless the
shop situation was Strengthened out.
It was understood that, while they
did not set up q possibility of sym-
pathetic strikes by their membership.
they declared that the condition. Of
railroad equipment, locomotives par
ticularly, on many roads was grow
ing to be such that tfAin crews might
refuse service. No public statement
that contained in the message from
the brotherhood heads under which
they acted in going to the White
House, and nothing was given out
officially. They made 1t plain. how
ever, that they made no request of
the President for a conference with
the brotherhood chiefs.
Peace Up to Men.
The meeting between general chair
men of shop workers on the Southern
railway and operating officials, set
for yesterday, was postponed until
tomorrow for the reason, according
to union leaders. that all the repre-
sentatives of the men had not ar
rived In Washington. The Southern
has acted separately from the other
large roads of the country, and has
offered a separate settlement. on the
basis of President Harding's pro-
posals, without reservation. Mr..
Jewell said last night that the ques-
tIon of whether the Southern shop
men would go back was entirely UP
to the men," and that the general
policy committee of the shopcrafts
federation had instructed general
chairmen to meet officials Of single
railroads wherever such a meeting
was desired.
Officials Of the shop unions. though
Informed to a degree concerning the
representations made by the brother
hood representatives at the White House.
declared they had no connection with
the move. The claim that locomotives
and rolling stock were deteriorating
badly because of the shops strike was
repeated by the union chiefs and held up
by them as the influence which would
determine the strike. All participants
held the belief that President Harding,
lf he intended to exercise further sua-
Zion on the railroad executives, would
h1k no further concession from the men
other than that involved in his original
proposal of accepting the Railroad Labor
Board wage awards and returning to
work pending rehearings.
Call ON Gompers.
Mr.. Jewell and Mr.. Johnston called
Upon Samuel Gompers at the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor after the
representatives of shopmen on strike
In eastern territory were called into
Washington for the week end to dis
Guss the strike with the national Of
hcers. Mr.. Gompers gave out a state
,nlent last night which charged that
"organized employing and financial
Interests were rallying to the support
of labor arrangements in order to
make of the railway strike q unified
pnion-smashing campaign
Mr.. Gompers to support his charge
presented = telegram which he de-
clared tho National Industrial Coun-
Gil Of New York had just sent out.
urging its membership to send "a
volume Of expressions Of associations.
hut particularly individuals. to the
President sustaining position of
railroads on seniority" to assist
railway officials to man shops and
TO bring pressure on presidents Of
roads in your territory to stand firm
in their position to date"
Secretary of Labor Davis attended
tho Presidents conference with the
Brotherhood representatives, and also