Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-06
MOVE TO SETTLE
R. R. SHOP STRIKE
Chairman Of Board Exchanges
conciliatory Letters With
Shipments Leader
JEWELL READY TO CONFER
HI Associated BfeAA

ShC0BUs July O.-lHe stElho VI run.
way shopmen assumed more con.
ciliatory aspect today, the sixth since
the nation wide walkout. Feeling be.
came more general in rail circles that
tbs Inst twenty -four hours had shown
a marked trend toward peace. despite
increased disorders At scattered points.
1t was believed that yesterdays ex.
change Of letters between Ben w.
Hooper, chairman Of the United States
Railroad Labor Board. and Bert NJ.
Jewell, head Of the Railway Employees
Department of the American Fedora
tion Of Labor, probably opened the way
to negotiations for an early settlement
Of the controversy.
Mr.. Jewels statement that the shop
crafts ARE will ing to confer with any Z.
body authorized by hie railroads to
bring peace proposals" was accepted az
a promising indication Of q speedy re-.
turn to normal conditions IN the rail.
road shops. Mr.. Jewell said he neither
included nor excluded anybody, but TIM
If the Labor Board came with definite
proposition he would not hesitate to
consider It.
CuhHhhhOuo SohuO AVV A<0t0
Chairman Hooper asserted that the
Labor Board has been protecting the
interests Of the striking shopmen "even
while they have been calling the board
Names"
Explaining his failure to answer last
Fridays summons to appear at a Joint
conference before the board, Mr..
Jewell said the summons came too
late to avert the walkout set for Satur-
day and that his appearance would only
have caused confusion In the ranks of
the shop crafts who had their orders to
strike.
Another harbinser Of peace in the
statement by Chairman Hooper vas
that a number Of railroads which had
been farming out shop work to con
tractors were ready to abolish the con
tract system, which proved to be the
main issue In the shopfnen's strike. ac-
cording to returns in the strike refer
endum.
Although the vote to strike In pro-
test against the 500, 900, 900 wage re-
duction Of July was declared to have
been overwhelming, Mr.. Jewell an
nounced that the question Of protesting
the heaviest strike vote Of the three
plOpoSi'iohS PuI UP w thO choP"A~A'
Plan Additional Wage Cuts
Fifty additional wage adjustment
cases, forty -four of which apply to
clerks and not included In recent de-
cislons, were set for hearing by the
Labor Board today.
Another conference between L. A.
Helt, president of the railroad signal
men, and w, L. McMenimen, labor
member Of the board, who met yester-
day, was in prospect today.
It was Mr.. McMenimen and Chair
man Hoopef who successfully inter-
vened in the threatened strike Of tnain-
tenance Of way employees by fnediations
July 4 with f. F. Cradle, president Of
the maintenance men. These same two
board members were the guiding spirits
in leading the way to peace III the
threatened general rail strike last Octo.
ber, and most Of the hopes in the
present crisis apparently are banked
on them.
Meanwhile the railroads generally
were advertising for men to take the
places of the striking shopmen. and
strikers were reported at many points
to be driftina back in uncertain mum
bers to their old jobs.