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Show KNAPP STILL TRYING FOR ARBITRATION Firemen Insist It Must It Under the Erdman Act ENGINEERS WILL REMAIN AT WORK Railroads Involved In Possible Pos-sible Strike Serve 50,-000,000 50,-000,000 People. KBW YOU, rab. 17,-Jsxtfs atartln A. Knapp of the United Mates commerce com-merce court arrived 1m New York from Washington this morula; for a anal conference with officers of the Brotherhood Brother-hood of LocomotlTs rUsrnsa and, Rutin Ru-tin omen la the beam of averting a strike against fifty foer eastern railroads. rail-roads. If no means of arbitration Is then agreed upon. It waa Hid, tbs strike wonld he called, effective within forty- aliht hears. Tk Bremen still Insisted today thai thsy wonld arbitrate their assxaaas for higher pay aad hatter working eoadi-tioa eoadi-tioa oaly undsr the Erdman est, with tkree arbitrators, as provided by federal fed-eral statute. Judge Knapp said ha would work all day tryisg to bring both side together end would not abandon the eitoatioa until svery means bad been erksnstod. For tk tressee, Preeidaat Carter espial es-pial asd tkat, la tks stsw so settlement was reached, the strike. If ordered, would not bo (Beetle until all the district leaders of tbs onion now gath srsd her ksd returned tkeir respective posts aad reported to him by tele apk. Take LautohlTsa to Terminals. Evan thee ao fir men wonld Isav thslr sabs mstil locomotive bad been taksa to terminal points. He added tkat in the svsat of a strike the engi near wonld poaittvsly not go out la sympathy, but would adhere to their agreement with the railroad. This -holds till June 1 nsxt. According to the firemen, the strike wonld mean a practical tieup of railroad rail-road badness, because the fifty four railroads in the sons affected east of the Mississippi sad north of the Ohio river serve the most densely populated settle of the United States. Tkere are eighteen states is the sons of tko threatened strike Tbs mileage approximately 80,000 miles. Tks fire men, practically all of whom claim to be members of the brotherhood whose vote has brought tbs situation to a crisis, somber over 88,000 men. It is declared that practically svery man firing fir-ing a locomotive in the eaatern territory terri-tory would obey a strike order. Tko vot of tk flrmn oa tke strike question ques-tion wa recorded as 32,178 in favor of a strike, as compared witk 1188 against it. A statsmsnt issued by the railroad managers say that th railroad involved in-volved serve over 80,000,000 persons, or over half the population of the United States. Tke railroad employ, hill told, approximately 880,000 men aad women. |