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Show SHOPMEN WILL " RETURN 10 WORK SENIORITY QUESTION 13 NOT MENTIONED IN AGREEMENT j REACHED AT MEETING I Dlipirto Over Standing of Men Will Be Settled by Adjustment Board Made up of Workers And Executives OtilmRO. Mnmljprs of the shop crafts policy rommiitee, who Wednesday Wednes-day approved ponce pinna for ending the nillroud strike, through separate (creernenta with Individual railroads, Thursday began separate settlement negotiations under terms of the agreement. agree-ment. Instructions tu various system fxl-erutlon fxl-erutlon officials to enter signatory negotiations nnd arrange agreements with their roads, were sent out from union headquarters by li. M. Jewell, chief strlkoleuder, and head of the rallwny employees department of the American Federation of I-abor. Policy committee members scattered scatter-ed to their respective baliwicks soon after the settlement plan was udopted. Jlailrond systems counted among thoso expected to sign the agreement immediately or soon were said to number num-ber between 30 and GO of the clnss 1 rouds of the country. The text of Instructions to officials offi-cials of system federations would remain re-main confidential, Air. Jewell said. lie said also that union leaders would not make public at this time a list of the roads which agreed because it will probably be augmented by new signers sign-ers as the result of a continuous series ser-ies of conferences with roads not already al-ready In the agreement. Under the terms of the peace plan, shopmen are to return to work under wage scales prescribed by the United States railroad labor board effective July 1, the date the strike began in protest against the board's decisions. The question of seniority which proved to be the chief barrier to un earlier settlement, was not specifically specifical-ly mentioned in the agreement. The agreement made no mention either of working system or the contract system for "farming out," shop work which with the wage controversy were the original issues in the strike. Disputes over the relative standing, of employees, nnd new disputes which might arise as outgrowths of the strike, shall under the peace terms, are referred to adjustment boards composed com-posed of representatives of the carriers car-riers and their employees if the disputes dis-putes can not be settled as an individual in-dividual matter between an employee and his road. The agreement requires the signatory signa-tory roads to find places for all returned re-turned strikers within 30 days after it becomes available. Strikers who have committed acts of violence are not protected in the agreement to restore former jobs to employees. Much of the credit for effecting separate sep-arate settlements 'was given by the shop crafts" executive council to S. Davies Warfield, president of the Seaboard Sea-board Air Line and head of a railroad rail-road securities company, said to control con-trol $13,000,000,000 of stock. Conferences Confer-ences between Mr. Warfield, Mr. Jewell Jew-ell and Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore and Ohio, in Baltimore, early this month, opened the way to the agreement. It was Mr. Warfield who stuck to the finish for virtually tliis kind of a settlement in the conferences con-ferences at New York last month between be-tween railway executives and chiefs of the transportation brotherhoods, the latter acting as meditators for the shopcrafts. |