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Show WAY MEHJO STAY PRESIDENT GRABLE STATES THAT WALKOUT WOULD BE AN UNWISE MOVE 400,000 Men to Stick to Jobs; Course of Action Is Laid Down In Set of Rules Prepared by Commit, tee of Track Men ' Chicago Tlio threatened strike 400,000 muliitenance of way employees of the country's railways was postponed post-poned Tuesday pending furtlier negotiations, ne-gotiations, K. I' GraMe, president of thc mnlntonunoe workers, announced :nfter an nil-day conference with members mem-bers of the United States railroad In-or In-or board. "Aftor moat careful consideration of this entire situation, we have reached the conclusion that It Is not wise for our membership to leave the service of the carriers until every resource re-source hns licen exhausted that affords af-fords hope of a peaceful adjustment" said the announcement, which was sljrned by Mr. Grable, three vice-presidents vice-presidents of the union, and a quorum of the executive board. The conference resulted from the Vrsnnal efforts of Walter h. McMenl-men McMenl-men find lien W. Hooper of the labor board. Mr. McMenimen, a member of the labor group on the board, ar-ranged ar-ranged the conference by telephone on Saturday with Mr. Grable, who was In Detroit canvassing the strike vote of his organization. This -vote wns said to be largely in favor of a walk out. Accompanied by J. C. Smock, vice-president, vice-president, and members of his executive execu-tive council, Mr. Grable arrived in Cklenpro from Detroit and immediately immediate-ly went Into conference with Mr. Mc-Mionimen Mc-Mionimen and Chairman Hooper of the board. Except for a brief adjournment adjourn-ment for lunch, the session continued nil day. The formal announcement was not made until after 6 o'clock and It outlined the course of action decided upon by the track men as follows fol-lows : "First: To Instruct our chairman on each carrier to take up promptly with (he management all the grievances grievanc-es and controversies outstanding between be-tween the members of our organisation organisa-tion and the carriers, for the purpose of negotiating a speedy adjustrrrent, the matters to be taken up, among others, to embrace a revision of the recent wage decision of the railroad labor hoard, certain changes In our rule, and the question of contracting out the lnibor of the classes of employees em-ployees included in our organization. That the carriers could not well hesitate hes-itate bo consider a revision of the wage decision Is Indicated by the fact thait many of them have already boen offering certain changes favorable to certain classes. "Second: In case of failure to secure se-cure from any carrier fair and reasonable reason-able concessions In regard to the various var-ious matters Involved, to bring these matters before the railroad labor board with the assurance that they shall lie given the right of way for prompt consideration and decision. "Third : To continue work under the present wage decision of the labor board under protest, pending the efforts ef-forts to obtain a satisfactory adjustment. adjust-ment. "Fourth: To insiat that any revision revi-sion of wages obtained be made retroactive retro-active to July 1. "Fifth : To seek immediately from -the railroad labor board a ruling absolving ab-solving our members from being required re-quired to perform the work of striking strik-ing employees belonging to other classes. class-es. "Sixth: To withhold our strike order pending the carrying out of the foregoing fore-going program. "With the best interests of the members of our organization at heart, it is our judgment that more will be gained for ihem by the program here outlined than could be derived from any other course. |