Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1917 — LAST HOUR PARLEY IS ONLY HOPE [ARTICLE]

LAST HOUR PARLEY IS ONLY HOPE

Four Labor* Chieftains Are In Council With Rail Heads—Will the Walkout Start Tonight? New York, March 17.—Secretary Lane sent word from the conference room at 2:20 o’clock that the brotherhood men had left but that the mediators were still in conference with the managers. He said no further statement would .be made tonight*. New York, March 17. —Secretaries Lane and Wilson, and Daniel Willard, the mediators, were still in conference with the brotherhood chiefs and the railroad managers at 2:15 o’clock. Samuel Gompers, the fourth member of the council of national defense named as a mediator, had not arrived and no word had been received from him as far as could be learned. No intimation had come from the .conference room as to the progress of the deliberations and there was no indication that the meeting was near; ing an end. . —~ New York, March 16.—Three of the four members of the National Council of Defense, appointed with the sanction of President Wilson to act as mediators in the hope of averting the nation wide, railroad strike called to "begin at 6 o’clock tomorrow night, went into conference at 10:30 o’clock tonight with the chiefs of the four railroad brotherhoods. It was the purpose of the defense council’s committee to carry their discussion with the representatives of the men as far as possible and then call in the members of the national conference committee of railroad, managers. AH the persons concerned in the conference believed it might last all night.