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Show RAIL WORKERS RESUME DUTIES ROCK ISLAND ROUTE HALTS NE- GOTIATIONS WITH SHOP MEN AFTER PARLEY Burllnoton and Union Pacific Remain Out; Men Are Belno Ordered Back to Work Dally Chicago. With thousands of tho shopmen on roads which havo made poaco in tho rail strlko already back at work, and with thousands of others oth-ers proparlng to tako back their formor for-mor Jobs, a dozon or more railroads thnt havo stood out against tho Jew-oll-Wlllnrd plan settlement, woro reported re-ported negotiating for peaco Friday. Among now roads seeking poaco aro under stood to bo tho Northern Pacific Pa-cific and tho Great Northern. If theso roads Blgn up, It was ox-poctcd ox-poctcd that other great western roads among the "die hards" would fall In lino, and also negotiate agree, moots. Tho Elgin, Joliot and Kastorn railroad rail-road had completed plans to sign tho agroement, it was announced Friday, while the Alabama and Vlcksburg railroad, it was reported, has dropped ouL Tho Itock Island negotiations with tho shlpcrafts aftor a five hour conference con-ference weri broken off, J. B. Gor-man, Gor-man, president of the road, stated "wo submitted a proposal, but it was rejected." Tho Soo Lino was negotiating for a settlement It was reported. Tho Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul was the first railroad on which tho men wore ordorod back to work. More thnn 1500 shopmen wero hack at tholr jobs in the shops of tho road hero Friday. Tho Chicago and North, western shops wero also manned by shopmen Friday. Tho Illinois Central,- tho Buffalo and Susquehanna, tho Denver and Salt Lako and the Galveston Wharf Lines were other rtfads said to bo ready to nogotiato settlements, In spite of previous denials that thoso roads would sign tho peace pact. Tho Pennsylvania, Burlington, Santa Fe, Wabash, Union Pacific and Erie railroads were still outside the peace fold, These roads remained firm in their declarations that thoy were not concerned In tho settlement plnnB, hut would continue to operate wth tho forces recruited since the trlke began. Hallway executives who have participated parti-cipated In the poaco conference announced an-nounced Friday that tho termination of the strike on tho basis of soparato agreements negotiated between tho unions and the dlfforent railroads was tho most Important phaso of the conference. |