The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-13
New Brotherhood Announces
WalkOut to Take Place
Next Monday.
"WE'LL KEEP ROAD
MOVING"- LOWRY
Superintendent Says Order
Has Not Been Received
Officially.

A strike of all Northern Pacific
clerks and station employees has been
called for 10 o'clock next Monday
morning by the Brotherhood Of Rail-
way Clerks and station Employees In
an order published here yesterday aft
ernoon. The action according to the
ORDER follows the refusal Of railroad
officials to hear the grievances Of the
newly organized brotherhood. Be-
tween $500 anu 5000 men will be at
fected by the strike. union men be-
lieve. On the Rocky Mountain divi-
sion says $. II. Boone, local secretary,
about $50 men viii be involved, OF
whom so work in Missoula..
"Wiii Keep Things Moving"
Superintendent T. +. Lowry said last
night that he did not know definitely
that a strike was to be called.
ave will try to keep things moving
il the men do walk out nc said. He
could not estimate the effect OF the
proposed strike. II do not know" he
said, ''how far the organization work
has gone"
Don't be a scab." says the strike
| order, dated st. Paul, October ). and
signed by the grievance committee OF
the brotherhood, headed by II. II.
| Montgomery of this city as general
| chairman. After announcing that all
employees affected by the schedules of
wages and time proposed by the
brotherhood will be expected to strike
at 10 o'clock a. m. Monday, October
Is, the order says:
Not Given Hearing.
Sisters and Brothers, this strike Is
called for as just cause as ever man.
kind had. and only after our commit
tee failed to get a conference with Mr.
Slade after repeated efforts on our
part.
Let no clerk or station employe
with a spark of womanhood or man.
hood in their makeup do any work fol
the Northern Pacific railway system
until your committee has been granted
a hearing and concessions asked fd'
over the signature of Mr.. Slade, firs'
vice president, N. p. Ry. Co.
"Remember your obligations II
yourselves. your loved ones, your Or
ganization and humanity. Let ever,
clerk and station employe show his d
her American spirit! Come with III
and make 1t clean!
1--WE are sure to win, our cause l!
just and we cannot lose"
The order is countersigned by Rich
ard F.. Dec, vice grand president OF tn
brotherhood.
s. r. Boone, local secretary. salt
last night that the brotherhood had In
vited federal arbitration of the disput
and that a mediator. Mr.. Crawford
had been sent from Washington to 81
Paul. Vice President Sladc. however
f left st. Paul. though aware Of MI
g Crawford's coming, said Boone, an
J. announced that he would not retur
until October II.
: If Slade grants Il hearing before
j o'clock Monday morning the strik
will be delayed. it is said.
Eight. Hour Day Demanded.
The new organization of clerks
striking for recognition and signe
agreement providing for an eight-ho,
q day and revision Of wage schedule
Some OF the men, according to NJ
Boone, now work 10 and IL hours
e day and are paid as little as s65
IS month. The maximum pay, he says,
= $11O Il month and Is given to no mo
J. than half a dozen on the entire sy
1f tenn. The brotherhood has asked f
1t wages Increases ranging from 80 p
le cent for those getting the Ininimu
wage to 20 per cent for those recei
ing the maximum. The average p
for the entire system, according
Boone. is $85 a month.
n The brotherhood will maintain stri
headquarters at the Union Temple.