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Show 04 66aS Roads Try To Reopen Shops With New Men; Crisis Seems Nearing Demand for Settlement Believed at Hand as Traffic Curtailment Grows Critical With Food Trains Delayed NEW YORK, July 16. Prediction that E. F. Gable, president of the brotherhood of maintenance of way employes and railway shop workers, would issue a strike order to the 00,000 of his unioD I "at any hour," was made today by William Parker, leader of the ,New York Central maintenance of way men, and president of the ; Union Association of Eastern Chairmen. The Nev York Central men, he declared, "are up in arms against Grable's action in holding off on the strike for which they had voted overwhelmingly." If Gable persisted in his refusal to order- a strike, the general chairmsn undoubtedly would take things into their own hands, Parker declared. CHICAGO. July 15 Virtually abandoning aban-doning hope of an early settlement of jlhc- railroad strike following the failure fail-ure of Friday night's conferences, rail-j rail-j road executives today prepared to make a determined effort to reopen shops with non-union employes ac-cording ac-cording to a high official of the United Unit-ed States railroad labor board. Thla l il, who declined to be quoted di-re di-re tly, said peace moves would he hus-pended hus-pended for the present as the carriers and strikers were unablo to find any Common ground for starting negotiations negotia-tions when Chairman Ben Hooper suicht to gel the; n together Friday. Trie stuniblThg block m the path of settlement, it was eaid. at the railroad board, will be the union's demand fot lestoratlon of seniority and other privileges priv-ileges to the strikers. The railroads indicated to Chairman Chair-man Hooper that the men who have stuck by their employers and the new employes enlisted will bo protected In the senorttv listing thereby attained. PEACE DOVE TTRKD The peace dove which Friday flitted between separate gatherings of rail-' rail-' road executives and leaders of the striking shops crafts today bore a somewhat wilted olive branch which Ben W. Hooper, chairman of the United Unit-ed States labor board hopefully tried to freshen. Mr Hooper, self-a ppolnted and hard working envoy between the warring factions, has found fundamental difficulties diffi-culties In his efforts tp bring about peace, but with more parleys In prospect, pros-pect, the situation gave promise of a in approach to a settlement or at least to negotiations out of which somo agreement might be reached to meet on common ground. Strike leaders and railheads moved closely together and met In hole, rooms Friday. Neither side, however made enough concessions to pro Ids substantial optimistic news for th- eek-end. JEWELE is 1 IK.M .Mr. Jewell and his associates insisted insist-ed that the carriers must agree to satisfactory sat-isfactory modifications of both th wage and the rule decisions of the board before the strike is called off Mr. Hooper explained. The execu ties declined to consider modifying these two decisions Samuel Gompers at Washington declared de-clared the American Federation of Labor stands squarely behind th'-striking th'-striking railroad Bhopmen. No developments towards a settlement settle-ment of the strike on roads of the northwest were apparent us the result or conicreioes uaiweeo rainoiu on.-cials on.-cials and strike leaders. The fact that the conferences were held lent a little lit-tle encouragement to the situation, but the northwest conferees apparently were marking time, pending developments develop-ments In Chicago. TRAFFIC CONDITIONS WORSE Traffic conditions in all sections of the country continue to grow worse with food shipments to prima rj mai kets now being held up by the roads In some sections With civic and commercial commer-cial organizations drawing attention to various critical situations In BCS-tttered sections, increasing pressure for a opt . d settlement of the shopmen's dispute Is expected for the opening of the new week |
