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Show SHOPMEN WILL REM TO WORK SENIORITY QUE8TION IS NOT MENTIONED IN AGREEMENT REACHED AT MEETING Dispute Over Standing of Men Will Oe Settled by Adjustment Board Made up of Workers And Executives Chicago. Mombors of tho shop crafts policy commltteo, who Wednesday Wednes-day approvod poaco plans for ending tho railroad strlko, through soparato ngreomonts with Individual railroads, Thursday began separate settlement negotiations under tonus of tho agree inont. Instructions to various systom federation fed-eration officials to enter slgnntory negotiations nml, nrrnngo agreomonts with their roads, wcro sent out from union headquarters by II. M. Jewell, chief atrlkoloador, and head of tho railway employees department of tho Amoricnn Federation of Lobor. Policy commltteo mombors scattered scatter-ed to their respective ballwlcks soon aftor tho sottlemcnt plan wob adopted. Hull road systems counted among thoso expected to sign tho agreement Immediately or soon woro said to number num-ber between HO and CO of tho 202 class 1 roads of the country. Tho toxt of Instructions to officials offi-cials of system fodoratlons would remain re-main confidential, Mr. Jewell said. He said also that union leaders would not make public at this time n list of tho roads which agreod bocauso It will probably bo augmented by now signers sign-ers as thu result of u continuous series ser-ies of conferences with raads not already al-ready In tho agroement. Under the torms of the peaco plan, shopmen nro to roturn to work under wage scales prescribed by tho United States railroad labor board effective July 1, tho dato tho strike began In protest against tho board's decisions. Tho question of sonlorlty which proved to bo tho chief barrier to nn oarller settlement, was not spcclflcali ly mentionod In tho ngroement. Tho agreement made no mention either of working system or tho contract systom for "farming out," shop work which with tho wago controversy wore Jio original Issues In tho strlko. Disputes over tho relative standing, of employees, and now disputes which might arise as outgrowths of the strike, shall under tho peaco terms, ure referred to adjustment boards composed com-posed of representatives of tho carriers car-riers and their employees if the disputes dis-putes can not he settlod as an individual in-dividual matter between an employeo and his road. Tho agreement squires the signatory signa-tory roads to find places for all ro-turned ro-turned strikers within 'M days aftor It becomes available. Strikers who havo committed acts of vlolonco aro not protected In tho agreomont to restore former Jobs to employees. Much of U10 credit for effecting separate sep-arate settlements was given by tho shop crafts' oxecutivo council to S. Davles Warflold, president of tho Seaboard Sea-board Air Line and head of a railroad rail-road securities company, said to con. trol $i:i,X)O,O0O,0OO of stock. Conferences Confer-ences between Mr. Warfield, Mr. Jewell Jew-ell and Daniel Wlllard, president of tho Haltlmoro and Ohio, In Baltimore, early this month, opened the way to the agreomont. It was Mr. Warfield who stuck to tho finish for virtually this kind of a settlement In the conferences con-ferences at New York last month between be-tween railway executives and chiefs of the transportation brotherhoods, the latter acting as meditators for the shopcrafts. |