Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-08-11
TALK FEST
TO BE HELD IN
NEW YORK TODAY
Meeting of Railroad Executives and
Union Representatives to Con-
slider Policy
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(By Federated Press)

the fruit OF President Hardlng'S latest
attempt to end the rail strike. Hav-
ing secured the consent of the 100000
striking shopmen and their allies to
his original terms after the rail ex-
ecutives had turned him down, Hard
ing thought it would be a good idea
to squeeze the shopmen little more
and so conciliate the roads. He pro-
posed that the seniority issue should
be left to the rail labor board instead
of being settled in favor of the men
as he had first offered. His wobbling
met with severe rebuffs from both
sides. The board in Chicago has
piped in with an invitation to the two
parties to bring the issue before it.
The executives will meet in New
York today and the railroad unions
will send representatives to Washing
ton on the same day to consider policy
The administration is being slowly
forced into taking over the roads. The
train service brotherhoods are on the
point of rebelling against taking out
defective equipment and their officials
are sitting in with the shopmen's
leaders in conferences with Harding.
The telegraphers on the Big Four are
taking a strike vote.
B. M. Jewell, president, railway en-
ployes' department, A. F. of L., is
sued the following statement:
at is clear to any unbiased person
that the railroad equipment is grow
ing more unsafe each day, and relief
must be had through an honorable
settlement. Employees now on strike
are firm in their position and will
continue to strike so long as the As
sociation of Railway Executives de-
clines to adopt reasonable terms of
agreement"
Reports to strike headquarters in
Chicago show that the Santa Fe rail-
road is desperately trying to keep
going in face of overwhelming me-
chanical obstacles in the shape of de-
fective equipment.
Shopmen at Newton, Kan, report
road feeling tie-up more every day.
Four hundred east bound freight cars
are reported in the Sand Greek yards
with no power available to move them,
and $50 west bound loads are tied up
by the same growing paralysis.
Trains are being held outside the
yards three and four hours by the in
creasing congestion. Dangerous con-
dition of air brakes and general
hazardous conditions have made ne
cessary orders limiting speed of stock
trains to IL miles and hour.
From Arkansas City, Kan, comes
this report: "Trains set out and wait
from one hour and sometimes three
hours to get into yards. The en-
gineers held meeting here and do
mated SIS from each man on the Okla
homa division"
Pueblo, Colo, reports: "The last
few days more scabs have left the
service of the carriers than they have
been able to replace and the Santa Fe
has begun to remove the footboards
from the switch engines and apply
pilots and are putting them in road
service. Plain evidence that the sup
ply of power is getting low"
Members of the twelve lodges of
the American Federation of Railroad
Workers of Toledo, who are not in
volved in the present strike of the
shopmen, such as signalmen, clerks,
maintenance of way men and others,
are donating days pay out of their
pay envelope in support of the men
who are out on strike, according to
word received at their national head
quarters here in Chicago.
An injunction restraining the or
ganization's activities in the vicinity
of Toledo has been issued by Federal
Judge Killits, paming Edward Hos
kins, president, and Chas. w. Koenig,
business manager at Toledo, among
others. The members of the fedora
ton employed in the mechanical de-
partment are all out at this point, as
we'll as those employed on the Toledo
and Ohio Central in the car depart
ment, who are covered by an agree
ment held by the organization. The
organization is an industrial union of
all classes of railroad men from the
transportation men down to the track