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Show TO END STRIKE ON TUESDAY. Meeting tomorrow in New York and i hicago the railroad executives and j ihe heads of the railway crafts are expected ex-pected to end the strike which has! been disturbing the whole country for a month or more. The public is looking forward to a settlement, and hoping the conflict j will be a thing of the past before ihe lose of the week. Without regard to the merit o( ihe. Issue from the standpoint of railroad r worker, the great mass oi the people peo-ple are urging an adjustment in order , 'hat t li e country may escape it calam- Jt-V- A Somewhat defiant menage comes train K S Parsons, vice president of the Eric railroad, who aent out a telegram tele-gram addressed to Chicago officialn Ol the road denouncing as "untrue" i -.ports that the 'strike on the Erie railroad will be settled by some gov- inmenlal authority " "There is no strike settling power i ted in any branch of the govern- nent," the telegram said "Its tunc ilon is to keep order, not to settle -trikes. The Erie railroad will settle with its employes whenever they are ready, without any outside interference, interfer-ence, and that, is the only way " That is not a good attitude as It Is equivalent to refusing to accept President Presi-dent Hardings efforts at conciliation better position is staken by A- O. Wharton, labor member of the United States railroad labor board, who was one of the dissenting minority In the recent wage cut decisions handed down by the labor board. Ho says railroad executives and striking shop i mployes must either accept the proposal pro-posal to end the strike suggested by President Harding or face full responsibility respon-sibility for continuance of the walkout, walk-out, "If either the railroad executives, meeting in New York Tuesday, or the bopcrafts policy committee, meeting in Chicago, should reject Mr. Harding's Hard-ing's peace proposal, the group that rejects it will face full responsibility for continuation of the rail strike and all that may result therefrom," Mr Wharton said "While I have not seen Mr Harding's suggestion, I have enough confidence in the president of the United States and I bplleve the public has to feel that whatevei plan he suggests will be just and fair." on |