The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-20
FIVE HOUR FARLEY
Another Meeting For Tues.
day Morning Slated,
Early Says
ALL PHASES TALKED
Strike Is Ordered To Be.
gin Progressively On
December 80

WASHINGTON. Dec. 10 M -
The White House announced to-
night that a five hour conference
on the threatened nationwide rail.
road strike had failed to reach an
agreement On the wage controver.
sy, but that a clearer understand
ing" of the problems involved had
been attained.
The statement, issued after rail-
road and union officials had met
with President Roosevelt, War Mo-
bilization Dire ctor James F.
Byrnes and Economic Sterilization
Director Fred M. Vinson, said the
representatives of the manage.
ments and the five operating bro
therhoods would meet here again
Tuesday morning.
Stephen Early, White House press
secretary. dictated this statement
to newsmen at the White House:
Statement Issued
'The President this afternoon
received the committee represent
ing the operating brotherhoods and
the committee representing the
carriers and for several hours there
was discussion of all phases of
the controversy as TO the demands
ct the operating employees for in
creased wages. a.
"After comforting with the Presi-
dent, the conferees adjourned to
the cabinet room where they con-
ferred at length but were unable
to reach final agreement.
Upon the adjournment of the
conference the representatives Of
the operating brotherhoods COM
municated with the members of
their several committees who are
now in Chicago. calling upon them
to Immediately come to Washing
ton.
Tuesday Meet Set
'1t was tentatively agreed that
another conference will be held by
the representatives OF the carriers
and the brotherhoods Tuesday
morning.
1T was felt ioy the conferees that
the meeting with the President to-
day had contributed greatly to
clearer understanding of the
problems involved
The operating brotherhoods,
whose members run trains and en-
gines, have ordered a strike to be.
gin Dec. 80, and to spread pro-
gressively, with a complete tieup
of rail transportation to be made
effective within four Gays thereaf-
ter.
The White House conference was
one of the longest sustained meet
ings that President Roosevelt has
held during his administration.
No Comment
Neither side would discuss the
conference when it adjourned short
1y after 7:30 pm, referring report
ers to Secretary Early.
Supplementing the formal state
ment, Early said the railroad and
union officials adjourned to the
cabinet room around $50 pm,
three hours after the conference be.
gan in the Presidents office.
Byrnes and Vinson, who subscribe
ed to the formal statement issued,
sat in on the cabinet room CONFER
ence across the hall from the Presi.
dents office.
WAS a proposition given the OPP
posing sides to consider?" a re.
porter asked.
II am standing on the language
of the statement" Early replied.
He said a further conference
with the President depended on
the progress made between the two
sides next Tuesday.
Twenty-Five men sat with the
President in the search for for
mula to avert the paralysis of war
traffic. They were the heads of the
five operating brotherhoods, IS
members of the wage conference
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