Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-06-26
Unverified Rumor That
Labor Board Has Agreed
to General Increase.
BROTHERHOOD ASKS
OUTSAWS TO RETURN
Pro- Sc of Adjustment of Wage
GALES, Retroactive to May 1,
>s+verts Danger of General Strike
Invitation to Strikers Now Out
to Rejoin Brotherhoods-Half Al.
ready Back in Fold.
By Associated Press.

Toaoy oack IN foio.
BY Associated Press.
Chicago, June 26.-W. G. Lee, pres
ident of the Brotherhood Of Railway
lTrainmen, today began work In ar
| effort to bring back into the broth.
erhood ranks the $4,000 workers ex.
PEELED for taking part in unauthoriz.
ed strikes during the past year.
With the promise of wage scale
decision before July 20. retroactive
| from May. l., there Is no reason Iol
| further dissension in : our ranks
said Lee.
ALREADY we have taken bach
| $1,000 of the 10000 men who were
| expelled. and we will take back 9th.
ers who make proper amends"
Lee remained in Chicago, while
other heads Of the Big -Four brother
hoods returned to their homes. He
| was in wire communication with
leaders of his organization all ovel
tthe<country. and declared that efforts
to take out trainmen and yardmer
on strikes at midnight would prove
futile as a result of the promise of ar
early wage decision by the federal
railroad board.
1t is reported that the board, which
has been in executive session here fol
three weeks, has agreed on a .tenta-
tive average wage increase for the
various crafts Of % per cent. Mem
bers of the board refused to corrob-
crate this report.
Pledge Averts Strike,
The menace of general railroad
strike which for several months has
been hanging over the nation was be-
lieved to have been removed last
night by action of the railroad labor
board setting a date, July 20, for an
award of new wage scale schedules,
That there will be no strike seemed
certain upon the announcement that
the award will be retroactive to May
/, 1920.
Judge r. H. Barton, chairman OF
the board, declared that a working
basis had been reached and that a
solution would be speedily found.
Railway brotherhood officials. who
had rushed to Chicago to warn the
lay, expressed themselves as salts
fed that the action would prevent
further walkouts. They declared the
boards statement to be the most i'm
portant move made SO far to curb
the rising spirit of unrest among the
railroaders.>
Announcement of Action.
The text of the boards announce
ment follows:
''The chairman is authorized to
say that the board is earnestly and
actively engaged in working out and
formulating a decision, having agreed
on a method of working out the prob
lem.
"It takes time and great care to
formulate a decision which can be
clearly understood and applied with
out doubt of practical difficulty. The
board and all it's forces are engaged
and are not losing an hour.
''The board will announce a de-
cision on and possibly before July 90
1920. This decision, when made, will
take effect as on and of May 1, 192O.'
Union Chiefs Pleased.
1--WE believe this action will aver,
general strike, as we'll as q, walk.
out by thousands of men acting in.
dependently." said Timothy Shea
head OF, the Brotherhood Of Engineers
1--WE have done everything we have
been able to do to avert widespread
strike. The big four brotherhoods
have expelled more than $4,000 OF
their members for joining unauthor-
| lied walkouts, but the rank and file
of the men are now demanding i'm.
mediate action
w. G. Lee, president of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen, said thai
secret plans had been made by the
disaffected union element to spread
the, strike thruout the country be.
cause of the continued delay in an
nouncing the wage ruling.
Strike Hour Was Set.
"The men would have quit at mid
night tomorrow" he said. TT was
impossible to hold them any longer
Men of my organization have been
waiting patiently for nearly a year."
WAS the decision and announce
ment Of the railway labor board due
to a warning Of probable strike
given by you and your associates to
the board?" Lee was asked.
''You can draw your own conclu-
sionS as to that" he replied.