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Show LEADERS FEEL I CONFIDENT END I DRAWING NEAR I Harding's Proposals to Be Considered at Coming Meetings PEACE PLAN GIVEN Two Eastern Executives Decline to Give in on Seniority CHICAGO, July 29. (By ths Associated Asso-ciated Press.) Leaders of the striking strik-ing railway shopmen returning from conferences with President Harding tonight expressed confidence that tho walkout would bo terminated as a result re-sult of meetings of railway executives and union committees next week to consider proposals submitted by President Presi-dent Harding. They also asserted that th-j strikers will return to work with their seniority rights unimpaired If they return at all. Timothy Heoly, president of the firemen's fire-men's and oilers' union, which 13 also on strike told newspapermen that he expected Tuesday's meetings to result re-sult in a settlement. ALJj HOPEFUL. "We are all hopeful," he said, "that the walkout will be settled 6 a result Of the meetings of railway executives in New York and union committees in Chicago next Tuesday." Asked concerning the stage peace negotiations had reached. Mr Heaty said that ' the case Is In the hands o:' the president " Ho said the exeeum j committee of tho firemen and oilers would meet here Tuesday "and will go along with the shopmen " Mr Healy refused to comment on tho peuco proposals, except to a.y - flH speclflclallv about the seniority question. ques-tion. SENIORITY RIGHTS. "The men Will return to work with seniority rights unimpaired If thev come back at all This means that they will go back to work In exactly the same status with respect to seniority sen-iority us when they left July 1 In all the railroad strikes In history -"i tlement was always based on trie return re-turn of senlorltq rights to the strikers HI There will bo no different settlement In this case " Healy would not be quoted to the effect tht a settlement of the Issues between the railroads and the striker-! had been t. ntatlvelj agreed upon Mr Jewell, heading the strikers, and Mr. Bl deWItt Cuyler of the rail executives as a result of the conference with tho ! president. w PRESIDENT'S PROGRAM. l (Infra-national News Service) WASHINGTON. July l"j Briefly, the president's peace program for the ndlroad strike In Its final form is unci' un-ci' istood to embrace the following: 1 Immediate return to work on all roads. I , 2. Strikers will return with their seniority rights unimpaired. except lhat those men ,ho advanced becauvj of staying with the roads shall be permitted to retain the seniority thus acquired. 3. Wages to be at the reduced figures fig-ures recently ordered by the railway labor board, and to be made the subject sub-ject of an early rehearing by the board 4. Working rules to be as recently ordered by the board and also made the subect of ar. early rehearing. 6 The Issue Of a national adjustment adjust-ment board and regional adjustment boards to be left open for future nc-gof nc-gof latlon. DECXJNE TO COMMENT. Neuhcr Jewell nor Cuyler would comment on proposals before leavln.: Washington today Jewell went to Chicago. Cuyler to Philudelphla to spend the weell end before proceeding on to New' York for what promises j to be a momentous and stormy moet-li-g of 14N railway presidents on Tuesday. Tues-day. It is known, however, that tho president's program Is all right lo the strike l.-ader?; whether It will b. to the operators If another matter, but 'he prevailing opinion in official quarters quar-ters here tonight is that In the end it will he -lccepted K.Y.1XT TIVES 0POSEP Thai the Issue of seniority will bo most bitterly fought by a majority o' the railway presidents became assured today through statements from at (Continued on Page Two.) uu LEADERS FEEL CONFIDENT END DRAWING NEAR (Continued Fran Pago One) lenst two executives L, P Lreo. of Die Delaware and Hudson and W. H. Cole, of tho Nashville, "hattanoogi i and Bt Louis. '.pie announced flatly that his road would not restore seniority to those wb strmk nnd whom- places hav;-been hav;-been filled by old and new men Uoree addressed an Ironic telegram I to Senators Wadsworth, of New York Pepper of PennS) Ivanls and Page and Dillingham, of Vermont, all Republicans. Republi-cans. In which he said that "President Harding has made no effort to inform himself as to the position of moro 'ban 171 shopmen' who loyally remained ,,n the job and whoso Interests Inter-ests are at stake. Wadsworth wa.s the only senator to receive the menage, the others being j out of town and ho would make no "iinuent on It Neither would other I Officials comment for publication although al-though prlvatoly thev expressed the opinion with some fore, that Loree'S I telegram was "In bad taste at this I time." WHITES OUT If Is PLAN I WASHINGTON. July 29 (By the Associated Proas) President Harding has r. .Jii, e, to writing and forwarded to the chief representatives of- the Striking railroad workers and of tho j railroad executives his plan for settlement settle-ment of the railroad strike it was ! learned tonight from advisers of the , executive. I Th. president's advisers were posl-tlve posl-tlve that the plan evolved b Mr. 'Harding from his conferences here this week with leaders of both par- ties to the controversy, had gone for-i for-i ward, preparatory to the meetings Tuesday in New York of executives in Chicago of the union lead, rs Then ; however, was no statement of any ; kind from the White House. tlo president pres-ident abiding by the decision announced announc-ed Friday by a White House spokes-i spokes-i man to reveal no details of the plan I I prior to Tuesday's meetings. The settlement set-tlement plan its reduced to written jform. It is understood here vvlll bi pre-St pre-St Qted to the executives meeting to ; which 148 railroad officials have been invited by T. deWltt Cuyler, chairman i of the association of railway i xcu-itlves xcu-itlves and to the meetings of the strike leaders, by b. .m Jewell, head of the railway employes' department of tho Amelcan Fedeatlon of Labo, 00 |