By Associated Press
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 19—With the Southern railroad stroking shopmen already returning to their former posts as a result of the Warfield-Willard-Jewell agreement signed in Washington yesterday, the railroad labor situation in the South today was considered at its best since the strike began. Approximately 50,000 Southern shopmen are affected by the peace agreement.
In Atlanta several hundred strikers resumed work in the Southern shops, it was stated, and the full quota of 500 men are expected to return and be on duty before Saturday.
Two thousand shopmen in Knoxville and 600 skilled laborers at Lenoir City, Tenn., again take up their duties tomorrow, dispatches indicate.
Reports of similar nature were received from practically all other railroad shop centers.
Recruiting of non-union workers has been ordered discontinued by Henry W. Miller, vice-president of the Southern Railway. Any strikers guilty of violence during the strike, it is asserted, will not be accepted under the agreement.
Four hundred Seaboard Air Line strikers returned to work in the shops here today.
Charlotte Men Not Back
Charlotte, Sept. 19—The striking shopmen on the Southern Railway here did not return to work this morning, and E.L. Barkley, secretary of the local union, said “a hitch had been encountered which the men insist must be cleared up before they go back to work.” He added that advices to him were that the same situation existed among the 1,700 shopmen who went on strike in the Southern shops at Spencer, N.C. Only about 90 men are affected here.
Mr. Barkley would not discuss the situation, explaining that efforts were being made to settle the trouble and it was possible that before night the last vestige of differences might be wiped away.
From the front page of the Salisbury Evening Post, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 1922
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