Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1916 — WILSON BRINGS PEACE NEARER BY CONFERENCE [ARTICLE]

WILSON BRINGS PEACE NEARER BY CONFERENCE

Advises Railroads to Make Concessions and Warns Brotherhoods Not to Take Rash Action. 5 ____i Washington, ugust i4.—The national railroad strike Seems a little farther off tonight. Both sides have heard the warnings of President Wilson and he has stayed the hands of the leaders of the railway brotherhoods, who, but for his intervention, would have befdre now signed the order for the strike. The president did not find a road out of the crisis today. Whether hs will succeed tomorrow will depend largely on' the decision of the representatives of the railroads of the United States who have been in constant conference since they left the White House at 4 o’clock. In order that the president may give his entire day to the railroad situation the regular Tuesday cabinet meeting has been canceled. So imminent did tht president find the strike, so grave the crisis that had arisen since the brotherhoods told the United States board of mediation and conciliation in New York yesterday that they would have none of arbitration, that he practically dropped all other business in a final effort to prevent what threatened and still threatens to be the greatest industrial battle in the history of the country. He worked all day to bring the two sides together and tonight messengers are moving between the New Williard Hotel, where the railroad men are in conference, and the White House. At the White House this statement was issued by the president tonight: “I have met both sides and have gone over the case with the utmost frankness. I shall not be able to judge until tomorrow whether we have found a feasible basis for settlement.”