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Show RAIL BOARD VICTORY CLAIMED I A.' A : A A a a READY 10 GIVE NEW HEARING ! TO MIL MEN: i Hooper Says Fullest and Fairest Consideration Will Be Granted SENIORITY QUESTION Chairman Claims Settlement Is on Basis Outlined by Harding sw i RANC1SI 0 Cal., Sept. i I The southern Pacific company n:i-nounccd n:i-nounccd 'ii..- thai it v.a- not n-ccrned n-ccrned with tlx- strike settlement reported re-ported nt Chlca . Wodncfidaj and did I not intend io ucal with it old ihop organizations President C. M Lcvej of the Hreetern Pacific railroad said he .lid not know enough about Hie Chicago settlement u suite wiiai altitude al-titude ids compan would take. DENY EH Colo., Sepi 14. The I Denver a. Rio Grande Western raU- road K not Included In tb riM.i-I riM.i-I which nn- making eparate peace "-1 "-1 gotiatlons vm.ii Ho striking -m-p craft union-, .ii.vepii ( 'v.iHiiii,-. receiver for the railroad announi rj toda I CHICAGO, Sent. 1 I 1 1 ;- The Associated As-sociated Press), Th. settlement ol I the shopmen's strike on c.rt,m railroads rail-roads sustains tip, transportation act and should the questions upon which the striae was predicated come bacic to the United States railroad labor board, "the fullest and fairest consideration" consid-eration" win be granted Ben W. Hooper, chairman ..! th - labor boarn. said In a Statement today. j The proposal in the settlement : agreement, amounts to the creating of an adjuatineht board and is in strict conformity to the provisions of the I transportation act, Mr Hooper .-aid. The chairman's statement follows "As a positive disbeliever in the moral right and practical efficacy or ; railway strikers, l am glad to know the Strike has ended on part of the r.a i:. It is to be hoped that some plan of ; Settlement can be agreed upon for all I the othara No extended comment, j nelth'-r In u post prandial nor post I mortem vein is necessary. Th- settlements settle-ments sustain the transportation act and theory of orderly procedure for the- adjustment Of labor troubles in I the railway Industry. The decisions f.t ;th'e labor board stand unmodified by the appeal to economic and physical force. All. the questions upon which the strike was predicated will como ' back to the board if the parties del ire I to bring them there. If they should be at any time reopened the board j will accord them the fullest and fair- est consideration without any spirit of vindlctiv cness or reprisal. The ques- i Hon of seniority thai arose out of the strike is not disposed or oy the set- tlement as neither party yielded it. , but the mutter Is referred to a com- I mission composed of repr sentatlves of both sides This is nothing more or less than an adjustment hoard with j Jurisdiction relative to questions rising ris-ing out of th. strike and is In strict j conformity with the transportation act , II may also be noted that this settlement settle-ment is in substance an effect Identical with the last recommendation made by President Harding. " |