Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-09-22
MEN WIN OUT
RIGHT TO BARGAIN COLLECT
IVELY RECOGNIZED
President Willard and Warfield of the
Association of Owners, Foremost
Factors in Arranging Sat
isfactOry Settlement
(By Federated Press)

hington-Disruptio Of the AS
sociation of Railway Executives and
isolation of the u. S. railroad labor
board are the most significant fea-
lures of the settlement by separate
agreements of the railroad shopmen's
strike.
The railroad workers have won the
essential point for which they have
been contending-the right to estab-
lish a living wage and reasonable
working conditions through direct,
man-to-man conference between the
representatives of the men and the
representatives of the companies.
They have broken, for the time at
least, the arbitrary rule of the rail
road industry by the Morgan banking
combine in Wall street.
Rail labor officials in Washington,
checking up the reports from govern
mental and other sources as to the
extent of the break in the ranks of
the Association Of Railway Executives,
find that except for the Pennsylvania,
the New Jersey Central, the Lacka-
wanna, the New Haven and the Boston
& Maine systems the roads are now
lined up for peace with the organized
shopmen.
S. Davies Warfeld, president, As
sociation of Owners of Railway Sc
curities, who with Daniel Willard of
the Baltimore & Ohio and Smith of
the New York Central negotiated this
agreement, had in mind the assertion
of the fundamental right Of the
owners of railroad stocks and bonds
to protect the value of their property
against the reckless wrongheadedness
of executives such as Loree and
Cuyler and Atterbury. His move was
made with the purpose of bringing
a showdown in the association of exc
cutives, and to emphasize the deter
mination of the owners to restore
peace before the executives of the
"die-hard" group should utterly ruin
the properties.
This settlement means elimination
of the railroad labor board from any
part in the decision of issues between
the unions and the companies. Here
the strikers win point, and the more
intelligent of the executives also get
what they have wanted for long
time.
When the Association of Railway
Executives meets to consider the ac
tion taken by 40 per cent of the roads
and soon to be taken by most of the
remaining lines, it will face an ac-
complished repudiation of its last Of
fetal action, which was the rejection
of the offer of peace made to it in
New York through the chiefs of the
train service brotherhoods.
Warfeld will demand an indorse-
ment of the settlement now made.
Loree and Cuyler and Atterbury will
resist. Whatever the vote, the fact
will remain that the once all-powerful
Association of Railway Executives has
ceased to be understanding ma
chine, and the protest of the security
holders begun by Warfield two years
ago has at last triumphed over the
arrogance of the Wall street exc
cutives.
If the Pennsylvania and its associ-
ates put un long and demoralizing
fight which interferes with the ex
pected business revival this autumn,
naturalization may become an issue
despite Warfield's coup. Such incl
dents as the announcement by the
Washington Terminal Co. here, that
it will not take back any strikers nor
consider a settlement, will tend to re-
kindle the enthusiasm of the strikers
for a final and comprehensive settle
ment through the purchase of the
railroads by the nation.
If, on the other hand, the settlement
becomes universal within a few weeks,
and the expected wage increase of
cents an hour is granted, then the
strikers may leave the question of
rail ownership and management in
suspense for a time.