Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-05
UNION LEADERSSAy
ALL SH0PMEN HERE
WILL Be OUT TODAY
Richmond Railroad En-
ployees Join in Rapidly
Spreading Strike.
MASS-MEETING TO BE HELD
AT AUDITORIUM AT 10 A. M.
Southern and c. & 0. Workers
Vote to Walk Out This
Morning.
OPPOSE PLAN WILSON OFFERS
Delegates Visit President at White
House and Declare Situation
Is Growing Worse.
OPPOSE PLAN WILSON OFFERS
Delegates Visit President Mt White
House and Declare Situation
Is Growing Worse.

Every railroad shopman in Richmond
is expected to walk out today as part
of the rapidy-spreading nationwide
strike for higher wages, which has
already affected 100000 or more rail
road workers in the United States, and
threatens to completely block the
country's traffic avenues.
Immediate effects OF the walkout
here on Richmond cannot be conjec-
tured. but continued strike threatens
TO demoralize traffic conditions and re-
tard the citys industrial life to a Sc
riouS extent.
Yesterday afternoon shop employees
of all railroads in this city. which had
not already acted. voted to strike. and
this morning at 1880 o'clock Il mass
meeting OF AL railroad employees of
Richmond will be held at the City Au-
ditorium, and plans will be made for
future course of action:
shops here. numbering 500, yesterday
afternoon voted that every craft walk
out at 8 O'Clock this morning. The
the general foreman and includes
machinists. carmen. boiler workers.
molders; pattern makers, helpers. and
1870 o'clock at Leader Hall. Tenth and
Hull Streets, In South Richmond 1t
is believed detaoinshr shrdlucmfwypcmfwy
IS deciared that the strike vote was
practically unanimous.
c. d o. Men Vote to Strike.
Earlier in the afternoon the shop
men OF the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
Toau' with unanimity. voted to strike.
Kne Kailrsad saddheTing T was was to be heidain the
men appeared. and owing to the large
crowd committee. headed by Council
man, man MI0rion: Nor secured the John Mar
shali High school Auditorium, where
the deliberations were held. IT was
decided TO leave on duty just enough
men TO attend 10 repair work on troop
AZ the C.. & o. meeting W. p. stubbs.
acting chairman OF the meeting. read
rns res,or. message esast, of walker o. Hines. di
railroad administration. suggesting
that the question of Increased wages
o,,oM DC refer5ed to Congress for consider
received me way me message was
shopmen were not at all fayorab,e re
the the suggestion. They claim that there
the part of the railroad administra
ton in coming to a decision in regard
70 sheir request for a raise from is
10 SO cents per hour for experienced
machinists and for other reouests of
a like nature. oi
r.. F. & r. Men VIII Quit.
y =, a meeting of the shopmen of the
hiienmond, Fredericksburg and Po-
Building yesierdsx Mas dt,.rad hnid at the arcade
nciai statement was issued as to thcir
tHS.ion' but individuals stated that
!hese men would be found aloncsiIc
me strikers today. Atlantic Soast
Line and Seaboard Air Line shopmen
mere are already out, f''iei
The striking shopmen dcclar. ,h..
recent increases in the cost of livinr
nSisee nsne made II impossible for them TO
En,sr imn under their present wages. The
IMPRESSION prevails that the Strike Viii
npI nprsa,i ead TO other branches of the trans
ra i,roaJ Jh ,s, business, and the general
in,, niihs iis is looked forward to as he
the the most important in the hist tor,.
Oh local railroad labor ' "'s'ory
Keports received here state that ma
sniniStS snd S,ii and helpers of the Chesapeaike i
nu onio are out not only here b,It ~,
other divisional points. incIudinc ~ III az
AZ '1h, 'h W. Va. and Silver Grove Kv
sta,ed ,nc general Offices here il Was
The cornn ma. nothing could be done bv
sne sn,; ;sorporate officers in the Wav of NY ny
Sot1a i,' ,ions as the whole mattcy t is ne
is iHs handied by the railroad adm =. pc
ton at Washington The sdTiEa irl.ian is istra-
por'ed TO be orderly at all points re-