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Show THE ISSUES IN RAIL SHE Jewell Puts Responsibility For Loss and Delay Upon Executives. CHICAGO. July 22 (By the Associated As-sociated Press. ) Three principal issues is-sues now prevent a possible settlement settle-ment oi tho railway shopmen's strike I' M Jewell, head of the railway employes em-ployes department of the American Federation of Labor, said in a statement state-ment tonight. These issues, he said, arc found In the refusal of tho rail executives to tl) discontinue con-tra. con-tra. ting work; (2) to establish a national na-tional board of adjustment. . i 3 t'. continue seniority rights of employes who suspended work. 'The responsibility for increasing losses to the railroads, to the communities com-munities they serve and to the wage earners upon the railroads and olse-wherc olse-wherc through continuance of the present suspension of work.' the statement said, "rests now plainly upon the Association of Railway executives ex-ecutives and particularly upon that small but dominating group representing repre-senting the Now York banking Interests." Inter-ests." Pointing out that the railroad labor board has decided against tho practice prac-tice of conti acting railroad work ln certain cities, Mr. Jewell asserted that the Erie railroad, the New York Central and Its subsidiaries, Including the Indiana Harbor Belt lines the Michigan Central and the Big Four, and the Western Maryland road, have I all contracted shop work MCW OH.JK1IVI S ( I.MMLI). "Many other roads." the statement j said, "have followed the same prac-i prac-i tice and always with the purpose and result of reducing wages, evading decisions de-cisions of the labor board, degrading ' working conditions and attueklng em- ployea organizations." AFsei iin;; tnai me uiie, 4'-w v. rv Central and Western Maryland, as well as otrer roads, have announced their decision to fight decisions !n this matter in the highest court Mr. Jewell said the boards decision against the practice will be set at naught for years by some roads while, i" said, if courts continue to declds that the board's powers are only advisory ad-visory "eventually ajj roads will be able to adopt tho contracting out method of evading the transportation act. wherever it is to their advantage" advan-tage" THREE MAIN ISSUES. The ' contracting issue Is the oniy one of the three Issues on which a -irlke vote was taken which, Mr. Jewell s statement today said, held up a possible settlement The other two strike issues were wages and woiklng rules, It having been virtually virtual-ly agreed at conferences that these matters could be submitted to tho labor board for a rehearing Th. niority and adjustment board issue? have been brought up since the strike started. ONK BOARD DIMrdT) Appealing for national . djustment boards to decide disputes, Mr. Jewell aid the Association of Railway Executives Ex-ecutives opposed such boards for thy purpose of ' deliberately" overloading the labor board. Employes desire one national board, uniform interpretation of such rule.-" desirable and intermediate boards will create inharmoulou rulings and j regional boards would impose dupli- "The proposition to deprive men j of seniority rights because of sus- j pension of work ' the statement add- ed, is utterly indefensible if tho facts, are understood." The right of the senior employe to be the last laid off and to have first preference in selection for preferable jobs, he said, was of great importance I and asserted that the roadB wished to i do away with the ordor, to "weed ' out those workers most active in pro-1 pro-1 lection of rights of their fellow employes." em-ployes." CALLS FOR SUPPORT. "The purpose of destroying seniority senior-ity rights," the statement said, "la a vicious attack on the right of men to refuse to work under nonaccoplablo conditions." Doprlvlng the men of seniority, ho said, would be a "swoo-ing "swoo-ing injustice, unparalleled ln modern history." "If the railway executives insist upon using this suspension Of work, which they forced upon the employes, as an excuse for depriving them of the fruits of life-long, continuous faithful service," the statement said, "they will only give further evidence of the absolute neceslt for tho organized or-ganized employes to fight to the last ulltch tho conspiracy against thotr fundamental rights and against the general welfare of all men who livo by labor," |