Show SOCIETY MATRON WORKS TO prevents PREVENT STRIKE it was the hand and mind of a woman that planned and worked out a way to bring about an attempted adjustment of the difficulties be tween the em aloyes and man agora of the forty two eastern railroads A it was the work of a woman who brought together at the white house the cepro senta alyes of three branches branch as of the federal government e ern r n m ment e n t t the h e b eads beads of the railroads and the masters 0 of f the railway employee emp loyes organizations in conference it was mrs J borden harriman Harrl man society matron wealthy social leader friends of president wilson a mother a worker in social beiter betterment ment lines a student of econom economics ids and adji adjuster ster of troubles between capital and labor who really and actually postponed I 1 it if not prevent edthe edithe ra railroad em aloyes of the forty two eastern ralli rall rail I roads from going goin gout out on strike tho the story of how mrs airs harriman alone and unaided started I 1 the ball rolling which resulted in the emp loyes layes arid and employers getting together the story shows her to be moro more than thad a student of social work and a theorist it shows she ebe possesses esses thas thai which hundreds of thousands ards da of met crave a practical mind and will III tc u operate it Af became known that the on cm aloyes of the railroads were in a mood to take drastic steps to force the rail roads to meet their dera demands ands for in creased wages and before any of th leaders of this great army of ern eni aloyes or any of the male manager of the various organizations seeking peace between capital and labor gave thought to td tho the question of how the th employer and employed could be b brought together arid and andu induced ed to adjust their differences wl without t bout injury to the general public mrs harriman Harrl man conceived her plan secretary to the president joseph 11 was at avon N J it 11 was about dinner time ile he was waa with his fits family ills his t telephone ephone el bell rang ile he answered it it mrs harriman Harrl man wat wa on the line tho the other end of which was in new york mrs airs harriman Harrl man told mr air that the trouble between the railroad managers and the employed emp loyes was seri olim the result was that a iong lun telegram went vent to the president at cornish N H where he was spending a few days with his bis family telling city of 0 the and pointing out the desire of all parties concerned to avoid an open conflict such as a strike the president after reading the ie telegram legram from his secretary instructed ted the latter to ask secretary ill it labor wilson to arrange the conference |