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Show HOPMEN ACCEPT HARDING PLAN I NEW MOVE FOR RAILWAY PEACE SEEMS LIKELY Strikers Accept Plan Which Roads Rejected at Tuesday Meeting LOOK TO HARDING Announcement From Na-tion's Na-tion's Chief Executive Expected Soon The federation strikers In Ogden todny authorize! A. O. Adleman of the local committee to send the following message to President B. M. .Tewell at Chicago: "on made eery honest effort to aert this strike. Have since made every hOQeSt effort to settle It. Executives flatly refuse to consider even unacceptable plan of president. It Is now our hope lhat you pn--enl our demands which will Include removal of every scab and -on tent Ions of men to nt all tlmtv be upheld pending decision by highest authority Let no further conferences be held. Let them necept or let the roads deteriorate." CHICAGO. Aug 2. By The Associated Asso-ciated Press). Chiefs of the striking I rail employes today voted to accep: I President Harding's proposals for i n ing the railroad strike appointed a 1 committee to draft the text of the acceptance and forward it to the pres-Idenl pres-Idenl Immediately. While this action by the strikers was expected, new moves for peaco ',' Were expected to come from the railroad rail-road executives and from Washing- b i ton". fwV It wes pointed out that definite rejection re-jection of the president's proposal concerning restoration of senlorltj j lights to men who went on strlks would leave the next move to Mr , - Harding Well informed railroad men j here believed the president might ad j, dress an open letter to the rail ex- i rcutives urging them to stop qulb- Jy, Ming over seniority when the national welfare is menaced Su-h a letter I would serve at the same time as an J address to the country r,t larpc ' IH Although chiefs of 14S railroads St their meeting Tuesday In New orK voted to reject the seniority Proposf.1 I,, 1 1 , ( . , - current here that this t did not constitute the executives final ,H word in the matter. I.'ji The action of the union heads v. it , the only outstanding event In the ran Lj'.J I strike situation today President Harding was said by Sec V i . tary of i v.mm r- e Hoo r : HM templating no action today concern UVK ing the strike and there was no lndi- !, eatlon as to when or where the next jM peace move might arise. PE I ' E HITS SN AG. WASHINGTON. Aug. 2 By The -jWM Associated Press. In rejecting Pres- ( ident Harding's proposal for settle- j ment of the railway shopmen's strike li as it was laid before them Tuesday In New York, the railway executives have j apprised the administration that th'j door for further negotiation still If j ( open If it can be undertaken on th'- J basis of preserving the seniority rights of the men who have remained a: work but not otherwise. Forces within the administration who have been working to find some UU way to bring the men and the road , . ; together w '-re today engaged in an ''(.-! attempt to find some way to bring ! the negotiations back to what the rail- , ) way executives understood was to he ,.U its original basis. No definite plan ,fj.'( however, developed during the -lay If attempts at re-openlng the ne-cotlatlons ne-cotlatlons should fall some official v In the confidence in the nlmlntstra t tion felt that Its next step, if neces j) sarv. would be to provide prutectlor I , for' such employes as wished to work j rrk |