Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1917 — RAIL CRISIS ENDED [ARTICLE]

RAIL CRISIS ENDED

PRESIDENT WILL MAKE PAY SETTLEMENT WITH WORKERS. Wilson Authorized by the Brotherhoods to Offer Plan Which Men Wil! Accept I Washington, Nov. 16. —That there will be no railway strike or serious differences between the railway employees and the railways appears certain. President Wilson has been authorized, in effect, by the representatives of the brotherhoods to offer a plan of settlement as' to wages, which the brotherhoods will accept. It is understood that the president will insist that the men shall compose their difficulties through mediation and that he inclined to favor the enactment of a law for compulsory arbitration of railroad disputes during the war period. The attitude of the brotherhoods is entire y satisfactory to the administration, although President Wilson had hoped that the officials of the brotherhoods would go as far as the railroad presidents in agreeing to mediation and arbitration. It became known that the officials of the brotherhoods had signed an agreement with Judge Chambers of the board of mediation and conciliation agreeing to mediation, but rejecting arbitration. The railway presidents, on the other hand, agreed with Judge Chambers to abide by arbitration. That the brotherhoods should be less disposed to accept this principle has had the effect on the administration of reviving bills proposed in the last session to govern such a contingency.