The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-09
ALL MEN
At WORK
JONDAY
Railroad s. g en Who Struck
Without : { orization, are
Flo Back to
bs.
TO BEGIN NEGOTIATIONS
Strike RANKS Thlnnina and Meetings
Viii be Held Next Week 10
Adjust the Differ
enoes.

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| WASHINGTON. Aug. 9-Railroad
shopmen who struck without author1-
cation are flocking back to work In
response to President Wilson's declar-
alton that he would not consider their
wage demands until they were all
back at their Jobs.
The railway department OF the
American Federation of Labor today
received kilograms indicating that all
the men would be at work by Monday.
| Labor leaders said they expected to
lbegin negotiations with Rail Director
Hines by next Tuesday. The shop
men want twenty five per cent wage
increase. Wage demands OF other
railroad employees may be submitted
with theirs. 1t fs-expected that Hines
will appoint a board to sit with him
/ and to consider whether the increases
are justified on the basis OF the high
cost of living and how railroad pay
compares with that Of other big In
dustries.
| Strike Ranks Thinning.
CHICAGO, Aug. 9-Ranks of strik'
| ing railway shopmen We're consider
ably thinned today as a result or
| President Wilson's request that the
men go back to work until their wage
question could be taken up. more
| than $4,000 in the Chicago district
today had voted to return to work
pending settlement of their claims, re-
ports from union headquarters
| showed.
| The passenger train situation here
! and throughout the central west, con-
tinued acute however. In many shops
and yards officials, foremen and yard
masters conducted repairs and manned
switch engines. Twenty trains on the
Chicago and Northwestern. Chicago
and Alton and Chesapeake and Ohio
railroads were suspended. 1t was be-
lieve suburban service will be Kept
| intact
Freight shipments were refused IN
several directions early today and last
night out Of Chicago. The Wabash
railway accepted only merchandise
destined for points on it's own lines
| All roads marked tags Subject to In
definite delay"
Appeal From Labor.
WASHINGTON Aug. 9.-With
striking shopmen returning to their
Jobs and Rail Director Hines prepar-
| ing to hear the wage proposals OF
/ the employees next week, representa-
| tives of fourteen railroad unions to-
day issued an appeal to the people
to back their demand for more pay.
| This appeal denied that "any vio-
| lence or threat was contemplated
! by labor when it asked congress to
adopt naturalization of the rail
roads.
! president Wilson IN his message
to congress yesterday said with re-
gard to the labor situation: There
must be no threats.")
The fourteen union heads stated
they were asking for "Americaniza-
| ton of the railroads.
Today's labor appeal follows:
/ "To prevent any misunderstanding
as to the policy of the organized rail-
road employees, we unite IN definite
assertion that we have no desire and
have bad none, to impress upon the
public, by violence or by threat, our
proposal that railroads be national.
lied under 'tripartite control
1.-TWO distinct considerations now
confront the people, the wage re.
quirements of the railroad employees
and the Sims bill.
| "In the matter Of wages we have
submitted an eminently Just proposl-
ton. We have said that If we are
to continue to live as Americans
should live and care for our families.
the profiteers must be restrained and
our wages increased.
every fair minded man and every
intelligent housewife VIII recognize
the reasonableness of this request.
4 "If congress and the president can
not meet this request, 1t Is still a
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