Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-07-31
UNION HEADS
CO70CH|CAGO
iAeet Tomorrow to Consider
Presidents Plan to Settle
Railroad Strike
ARE MOST Confident
Railroad Executives to Meet
Tomorrow in N. Y. to Act
on Settlement

WASHINGTON, July 81 (By The
Associated Press)-President Hard
ing was said today by certain per-
sonal friends and advisors to have
received assurances from Chairman
Cuyler of the Association of Rail-
road Executives. Vice President
Atterbury of the Pennsylvania rail-
road and B. M. Jewell, head OF the
striking 3hopmen's organization,
that they would support his proposal
for immediate ending of the strike.
CHICAGO, July 81 (By The Asso'
ciated Press):-Strike leaders were
arriving from all parts of the coun'
try today for tomorrow's meeting
called to consider President Hard
ing's plan for a settlement of the
railway shipments strike and hopes
were expressed that the men would
be back at work before the end of
the week.
The position of the striking shop
men was expressed by A. o. Whar-
ton, labor member of the United
States Railroad Labor Board, who
declared:
'If either the railroad executives
meeting in New York Tuesday or the
shopcrafts committee meeting in
Chicago should reject Mr.. Harding S
peace proposals the group that re-
jects it would face full responsibility
for continuation Of the rail strike
and all that might result therefrom."
The union leaders. however. ex-
pressed the belief that the peace
plan would meet with the strongest
possible opposition from the railroad
executives attending Tuesdays meet
ing in New York at the call of T.
Dewitt Cuyler. They expressed the
belief that the Presidents plan
would be accepted finally but only
after bitter struggle based on the
refusal of many roads to consent to
the restoration of seniority privi-
leges to the strikers.
A member of the labor board as
serted. however, that the general
outline of a settlement had been
agreed to last week at conferences
between President Harding and Mr..
Cuyler and Burt M. Jewell, head OF
the striking shopmen.
'If peace had not been in sight
on both Sides" he declared. neither
would have consented to the seLa-
rate meetings to consider a peace
proposal submitted by the President
of the United States because neither
could afford to be placed in a posi-
ticn before the public of bearing
the responsibility for a continuation
of the walkout through rejecting the
Presidents plans"
The seniority issue which arose
after the beginning of the strike,
he declared, was not as formidable as
it appeared at first sight. He assert
ed that a satisfactory solution OF he
difficulty which would fully protect
the rights of the strikers and the
new men and yet would yield full
justice to those who by remaining
az work had helped to keep the ma
tion's commerce moving would be
found.
One of the plans under considera-
ton. he said, would return pension
privileges and seniority rights to the
strikere but would rank them on the
shop list below the men who re-
NAMED at work but ahead OF the
new men who had been taken on
during the emergency, the new men
to receive the rank to which they
were entitled BY length of actual
service. He said that this would not
conflict with any promises made to
new employees and would be in line
with settlements reached in other
railway strikes.
In railway circles it was asserted
that any settlement would insist on
a return to work by the men under
the reduced wages put into effect by
the labor board on July 1 pending
a rehearing. The question of ma
tional adjustment boards, it was
said, might be put before congress
while the roads would yield on the
main grievance and issue by agree
ing to the abolishment of outside
contracting for shop work.
Disorders in the strike showed a
marked falling off Sunday. Three
men exchanged fifty shots with the
state guards at Denison, Texas. in
the most serious outbreak reported
over the Sabbath. No one was in
jured.
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