The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-08-05
Shopmen
Vote to Walk Out
Mass Meeting of ALI Effected
to Be Held at City Audito-
rum at 10 O'clock Today.

Late reports last night indicated
that the strike OF railroad shopmen
entering Richmond. A general walk
out over the entire Atlantic Coast Line
aystem and strikes In the local shops
Of h Richmond. Fredericksburg n
Potomac, ~Seaboard Air Lin and South
ern railway were reported.
A mass meeting OF all railroad men
will be held at 10 o'clock this morn
ing in the city auditorium at which
the strike will be generally discussed.
At a meeting held at 4:3o o'clock
yesterday afternoon at Leader hall.
Tenth and Hull streets. the Southern
Railway Federation of Labor voted al
most unanimously to pull the shop
out at $40 his morning. The railroad
officials were notified. The following
seven crafts. are represented: machin-
lists. blacksmiths. sheet-metal workers,
rro1ders, c%arrnen, p~aternHnakers. and the
helpers and apprentice boys of each
craft. Six hundred men will report for
work Mt the Southern shops this morn
ing and leave promptly ut $50.
The G & o. federation voted to in
clude the seven crafts enumerated
above in its strike. At a meeting held
yesterday morning at II o'clock In the
John Marshall High hoo auditorium,
it was decided to pull OUT every ma
except a small force to handle troop
trains.
A mass-meeting of union m~achinists
employed by the several railroads en-
tsrins Richmond was held yesterday
morning in the auditorium of John
Marshall High schooi. to hear reports
of committees from the various
branches of the trade n from the
various shops and to discuss the strike
situation In general. Chesapeake and
Ohio machinists now on strike held a
meeting at the Railroad Y. NJ c. A.
,.rior to the general meeting. to which
they adjourned
1t was decided by an almost unani-
nous vote of Chesapeake and Ohio
shopmen yesterday afternoon to call
a strike of all craftsmen in the local
Shops of tina road II was the general
sentiment of the meeting that similar
action will be X by shop worker
OF the Atlantic Coast Line. Southern,
Richmond. fredericksburg and Pctomac
and Seahoard Air Line railroads.
This action presages . complete tie
up of all troop. passenger and freight
trains. wherever It becomes necessary
to repair engines or other rolling stock
ef the roads,
Al the chesapeake and Ohio general
v IL kA8&
chinists and helpers were out not only
here. but at other divisional points.
including Huntington, W. Va. and Sill
yer Grove. KY. Officers OF the road
here said nothing could be done here
in tn. way Of negotiations. As the en-
tire matter is being handled by tho
railroad administration at Washington.
The strike in understood to have been
orderly at all points. the unions agree
ing TO leave on duty enough mel to
handle mail and troop trains.
Officials here were Of the belief
Yesterday that the business OF the
read has not as yet been affected by the
strike. although II was admitted that
in most cases repairs 10 cars and loco
motives II At a ~standstill. and II the
strike continues. an increasing amount
Of equipment will become idle.
Union men state that most Of the mon
AZ the Seaboard Air Line r~oundhouses
here are out. The extent to which
the Southern and r.. r. & p. shops will
be affected probably will be decided
today.
Union leaders claim there has been
a delay Of eight months On the part
of the railroad administration in com
ing to a decision in regard 60 their re-
quest for q raise from IS to - cents
an hour for experienced machinists.
Machinists employed 1T the Danville
and western railroad shops. number
irS 1875. walked out at noon yesterday,
Joining the general strike. Union men
held a meeting In the shops early yes
terday morning and decided on q walk