Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-28
Brotherhood Chief Warns
Hacific Coast Strikers of
Suspension From Union if
Order Is Not 0beyed.
WALKOOT UNSANCTI0NED
BY INTERNATIONAL BODY
"UnIess There Is Decided I'm
provement Government Will
Take Steps to Operate Line
Declares Stone.

night, it was officially announc-
ed after a meeting of the strik-
ers here.
Terminals of transcontinen-
tai lines of the Southern Paci-
fic, Santa Fe and Western
Pacific companies are in Oak
land.
San Francisco, Aug, a.
Striking San Francisco yard
men, after a brief executive
session tonight, announced un-
officially their resolution to re-
main on strike was unchanged.
Los Angeles, Aug. 27.-(By The
Associated Press. Am order to all
members of the Brotherhood oi
Railway Trainmen who are on strike
in southern California to return to
work, which was received tonight
from w. G. Lee, president of the
brotherhood, contained the warning
that members who failed to obey the
order would be suspended.
The message pointed out that the
strike had not been sanctioned by
the international organization and
added the members in engaging in
a sympathetic strike will only make
a bad situation very much worse
Advices from the railroad admins
tration is to the effect that the Pa
cific Electric is operating under
practically normal conditions with
strikebreakers and the only roads
embarrassed on the coast are gov
ernment-controlled lines where OUT
organization holds contracts
Stone Issues Warning.
Unless there is decided improve
ment the government will take steps
to-. operate the lines," said a state
mefit received from Warren s
Stone, chief of the locomotive en-
gineers, and made public here to-
night, simultaneously with the or
der from Lee.
|. As result of the receipt of the
telegram local officers of the broth
erhood tonight posted the following
announcement signed by Lee:
advise all men of the brother
hood that we will not engage in
sympathetic strike and tell our men
that less than two months ago 25o
members of the brotherhoods were
expelled from the organization at
Winniepeg for sympathetic action,
while many of them lost their posi-
tions. Our members must return
to work and uphold their contracts
if they expect to retain member
ship in this organization"
Notice is Posted.
simultaneously the following no
tice. addressed to engineers and
signed by Warren S. Stone, was
ordered posted: :.
EFFECTIVE at once, inform all
members of division that strike is
illegal from start to finish. All
members of the Brotherhood of Lo-
comotive Engineers will be required
to abide by Ehe laws of the organi-
zation and carry out the contracts
made in good faith, both by the
individual roads and the federal
government. Failing to do so, they
will be expelled inside "a hours. Un-
less there is a decided improvement
the government will take steps to
operate the roads. You all know
what this means. Impress on every
one the necessity of using sober
thought and exercising common
sense and not be carried away by
a wave of mob law"
Brotherhood leaders went into
executive session to( c onsider the
new orders from Warren S. Stone
and w. G. Lee. presidents of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi.
neers and Brotherhood of Railway
trainmen, respectively, telling strik,
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