Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-09-18
SANTA f ROAD
HAS COMPLETED
CONTRACT WITH
SHOP employees
An Agreement Has Been
Reached Independently Of
the Union and New Or
ganizationS Formed,
OUTBREAKS MENACE
SETTLEMENT PLAN
Strikers Returning to Work
on the C, M, & St, P,
Railroad Demand DiSmiS-
sal of Non-UniOn Men,

Chicago, Sept. IT (by the Associ-
ated Press. With the shopmen's
4 peace plan threatened by outbreaks
\ due apparently to misunderstand-
ings and with the New York Cen
\ tral announcing the failure of its
\ efforts to reach an agreement with
4 the strikers, roads not participant
4 ing in the Baltimore negotiations
4 report rapid return to normal op-
l Grafton of their shops tonight.
OF the larger lines mentioned in
connection with the memorandum
| of agreement adopted by the shop
crafts general policy committee of
ninety here Tuesday with the OBJ
ject of ending the country-wide
strike through separate agreements
with individual roads, the Rock Is
land and the New York Central had
definitely announced the failure of
efforts to reach a final agreement
and conferences of the Southern
with union leaders had been no
more successful as the strike en-
tered on its twelfth week.
In the case of the New York
Central, a statement was issued by
the road expressing willingness to
fulfill the memorandum of agree
ment reached at Baltimore but 1t
was asserted representatives of the
shop crafts 'attempted to inject
questions not mentioned in the text
and clearly outside the agreement,
insisting that these matters be in
cluded."
The same misunderstanding re-
suited in disturbances yesterday
when strikers began to return to
work here in the shops of the
Northwestern and the Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul. In some
cases the men were reported to
have demanded that non-union
workers be dismissed and in others
that their striking foremen be re-
instated. Today officials of the
Northwestern announced that they
expected 1900 of the strikers to
return to work tomorrow morning.
Moro than $4,000 men were eX-
|, pected back on the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul.
Recruiting Full Forces
At the same time railway eXecu-
tves who have refused to accept
the Baltimore plan, reiterated that
they are recruiting full shop forces
and that the settlement talk had
resulted in large numbers OF men
returning to work independently OF
any action taken by the union lead
ers. Many Of the non settlement
roads were said to have forces rang
ing from rs to 100 per cent normal.
These have formed new organiZa-
tions to supplant the striking shop
crafts. Among the roads which
have announced agreements with
their shopmcn independently of the
union, are the Santa F'e, the Bur-
lington, the Illinois Central and the
Chicago and Alton. w. G. Bird, ono
of the two receivers for the Alton
issued statement formally an
nouncing terms under which strilS-
Ing employees had been invited TO
return to work. 1t expressly stipu-
lated that they shall return as new
employees"
Jewell to New York
Mr.. Jewell departed early tonight
for New York where he said he
would enter into conferences with
the New York Central officials
Tuesday in the expectation OF
reaching a speedy agreement under
the terms of the Baltimore plan.
According to the union leaders,
the men on the following roads will
return to work tomorrow:
The Chicago and Northwestern,
the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul, the Baltimore and Ohio, the
Seaboard Air Line and the Green
Bay and Western.