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Show RAIL PARLEYS " BEINGPLANNED Executives Will Invite Big Four Officers to Conference CHICAGO. Jan. 21. (By the International Inter-national News Servlci ) Kallroad ex-eeutlvea ex-eeutlvea from nil parte of the United States following an All day conference behind closed doors announced tonight their intention to attempt '"by dlnt ncRotlatlon and dlecu -Inn" with railroad rail-road union lead) rs to arrive nt an nm-leable nm-leable settlement cf he present Issues between the roads and the men. In a statement made public Thomas Dewittt Cuyler, chairman of the Association Asso-ciation o Railway Executives. It was stated that the Bunestlon of Set retarj of Commerce Herbert Hoover, that the pre-war reKlonal conferences should lie convened, wa. dl U ed at today's mcetinsT. TEXT IF ST liTEMENT "It wus the sense of this association." associa-tion." Mr. Cuv ler's staioment said, "as one of the methods provided by the transportation act, that conference committees representing the railway managements in the eastern, southeastern south-eastern and westerti territories of this association, similar in nature to those which In some territories handled n Kotlallolns with the four brotherhoods prior to federal control, 1 constituted constitut-ed and he authorized to mc with the fi'Ur train and ehglnd service brotherhoods, brother-hoods, in Q fair (.'fort to compose and adjust all pen.!- n.vv at !.- jue, no restrictions re-strictions to le nj;on the , . . n 1 1 le.at Ion of any and oil queetlonp of wurcs and rules governing working onditions. "In default uf afi unili rjl.i riding mutually mu-tually agreeable1 in any territory, recourse re-course Is to hi had to the United States Railway labor Board in the regular manner provided by the transportation act " a The statement added that this resolution reso-lution on the part of the railroad cx-ecutlven cx-ecutlven "should be construed so us to prevent separate negotiations In additional addi-tional territories not mentioned above if desired bj the roads In such territory terri-tory nor shall It be construed as preventing pre-venting rallrofids IridfvIduaHy from excepting ex-cepting themselves from such negotiations, negotia-tions, substituting therefore Individual Individu-al negotiations with their own men." I ( . I K In ( IT P The four brotherhoods referred to In Mr. Cuyler's statement arc the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Englnemen, order of Railroad Conductors ami the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. They constitute approfcimatel one-quarter one-quarter of tro- railroad employes of the country. it was explained by Mr Cuyler that the action taken tonight did not Involve In-volve an abandonment bv the railways of their "previously pledged policy to seek a reduction in the labor cost of railway operation, the benefit of which is to be turned over to the public In reduction In ruteo." |