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Show COMPROMISE PROPOSAL LOOMS ( AS SETTLEMENT FOR SENIORITY ISSUE AT NEW YORK MEETING Shopcrafts Men Who Did Not Walk Out Would Head List With Strikers Next and New Employes at Bottom; Stone Says Strike Must Be Settled Now NEW YORK, August 18. (By the Associated Press.) Brotherhood chiefs, acting as mediators in the shopmen s strike, today laid a proposal for settlement before a committee representing the carriers. It was then decided to call a meeting meet-ing of the entire membership of the Association of Railway Executives at a date not yet set to consider the proposal. This was learned when the conference between representatives repre-sentatives of the running trades and the executives broke up shortly before 5 p. m., after having been in session for twr days. NEW YORK, August 18. At 4:15 p. m. the leader of one of the shopcrafts, who would not permit his name to be used, said after receiving a telephone message at labor headquarters head-quarters that he believed the strike soon would be settled. NEW YORK, Aug 18. (By the Associated Press.) Belief that no definite agreement for settlement- of the shop crafts strike would , be reached today was expressed by Warren S. Stone, head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, shortly before 1 o'clock on I leaving the conference between brotherhood men and executives. Alter having aiicncca mo session for two hours, Mr Stone left for tha uptown hotel, where shop crafts lead- - I its are quartered for a conference. He said he did not expect to return before 3 o'clock. Mr Stone said no definite agr- -mcnt hud been reached so far. and he b lb ved the conference would ex- I lend beyond today. Tho labor leader who earlier In tho day asserted a settlement must be reachced at this conference, professed himself still optimistic about the outcome out-come I'm still smiling." he said to news-pap news-pap i r men. ' I suppose you boys will write a column about that smile It took me ; 30 yeard to learn how to do It." WASHINGTON. August 18. President Pres-ident Harding was told today by Sen- M ator Watson. Republican. Indiana, one of hl3 advisers In the rail strike, thar l,,n distance, telephone conversations conver-sations with brotherhood chiefs and representatives of the railroad executives execu-tives In New York had disclosed both sides of hopeful of a settlement of a rail strike at today's meeting. 1 Discussions of the troublesome seniority Issue were declared by thi Indiana senator to be based on a plan .which roughly would provide. . ir-;t. that the men who did not gc on strike ge to tho head I of tie ii-,c in seniority second thai the employes who walked oul July i r later be ac- inicd seniority status second to the men wbe remained al w.rk Third that the new men take-n on daring the strike be given a seniority ranking below the utbe-r two groups and be n tallied In employment em-ployment by the railroads wherc- i r possible, j Senator Watson said that T. dc-Witr Cuvler, chairman of the Association lof Railroad Executives and leader of a Jthe executives tn the New ork con ference. had expressed himself ov'dr ! the telephone early today as quite 'hopeful. The senator did not disclose to whom he talked with among thu j brotherhood chiefs. mi st BE SETTLED NEW YtiRK, August IS. The-strike The-strike of railway craft unions must bo settled here. Warren S. Stone of tho 'brotherhood of railway engineers de-lelared de-lelared todav, us the committee of five rail brotherhoods finished several I Informal conferences before meeting i the rallexecutlvea to continue their work of mediation. , j The strike must he settled." ho ffmtinucd, "and it must be settled 'right here at these meetings. Conditions Condi-tions over the country demand that a settlement be made at once and Vtt ,are optimistic that It can be done soon The five brotherhoods are ready 'to do anything possible to brins pres? ent conditions to an end." M I. SIDES OlTlMlsTIt Railway executives and brotherhood chiefs went Into session at 10.30 o'clock. "We are optimistic that It can b done." sitd Mr. Stone and other lahor men echoed his words. No statement was forthcoming from representative- of the railroads. ' Up town at their hotel hoadfiuartera leaden of the striking shopmen profess, pro-fess, ,i confidence in the ability of thn running trades who have as umed the part or mediator to bring about i peace on the roads. PROPOSAL WORKED OUT j Robert S. Blnkerd, assistant to 1-!witt 1-!witt Cuvler. head of the Association of Railway Executives, said this morn-iiog morn-iiog that no arrangements had been Irnadi tor keeping in touch with Washington Wash-ington nnd that no effort made to ot-Uiln ot-Uiln details of the- speech which President Pres-ident liaiding was expected to deliver to congress. At a conference between Mr. Jewell nnd the mediation committee which preceded the session with the executives, execu-tives, it was understood a more definite defi-nite proposal for a settlement had been worked out but nothing concerning Ite nature could be learned from official of-ficial sources. |
