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Show RAIL WORKERS RESUME DUTIES ROCK ISLAND ROUTE HALTS NEGOTIATIONS NE-GOTIATIONS WITH SHOP MEN AFTER PARLEY Burlington and Union Pacific Remain Out; Men Are Being Ordered Back to Work Daily Chicago. With thousands of the shopmen on roads which have made peace in the rail strike already back at work, and with thousands of others oth-ers preparing to take back their former for-mer jobs, a dozen or more railroads that have stood out against the Jew-ell-Willard plan settlement, were reported re-ported negotiating for peace Friday. Among new roads seeking peace are under stood to be the Northern Pacific Pa-cific and the Great Northern. If these roads sign up, it was expected ex-pected that other great western roads among the "die hards" would fall in line and also negotiate agreements. agree-ments. The Elgin, .Toliet and Eastern railroad rail-road had completed plans to sign the agreement, it was announced Friday, while the Alabama and Yicksburg railroad, it was reported, has dropped out. The Bock Island negotiations with the shipcrafts after a five hour conference con-ference were broken off, J. E. German, Ger-man, president of the road, stated "we submitted a proposal, but it was rejected." The Soo Line was negotiating for a settlement it was reported. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Faul was the first railroad on which the men were ordered back to work. More than loOO shopmen were back at tfleir jobs in the shops of the road here Friday. The Chicago and Northwestern North-western shops were also manned by shopmen Friday. The Illinois Central, the Buffalo and Susquehanna, the Denver and Salt Lake and the Galveston Wharf Lines were other roads said to be ready to negotiate settlements, in spite of previous denials that these roads would sign the peace pact. The Pennsylvania, Burlington, Santa Fe. Wabash, Union Pacific and Erie railroads were still outside the peaee fold. These roads remained firm in their declarations that they were not concerned in the settlement plans, but would continue to operate with the forces recruited since the .trike beffan. Railway executives who have participated parti-cipated in the peace conference announced an-nounced Friday that the termination of the strike on the basis of separate agreements negotiated between the unions and the different railroads was the most important phase of the conference. |