The New York herald., 1921-10-16
Chicago Conference Ends i'll
Chiefs Going Home Carry
ing Their Orders to Put
WalkOut Into Effect.
TEXANS GO OUT OCT. %
Pennsylvania, Erie, Della
ware & .ddsOn Are Named
in First Group, but New
England Is Omitted.
WAGE REDUCTION CAUSE
Final Die Is Cast, Say Heads,
as Second Cut Is Planned
After Enormous Vote
Is Cast to Quit.
BIZ ne Associated Press.


CHICAGO. Oct 15.-More than halt
million American railroad men
we're ordered to-day to initiate
strike October 80, while other unions
whose membership make the total
about two millions announced unof.
ficially that they were preparing to.
night to follow suit and make the
walkout general, on the same date.
Under this programme the tieup
would be complete. according to
union predictions, by November 2.
The hour was fixed for A. NJ. Oc-
tober 30, except for one Texas line.
whose trainmen were authorized to
&c out October %.
An unofficial list of the roads in.
volved in the order to walk out at
6 A. M. October 30 follows. although
few changes may be made before
October 30:
Chicago and Northwestern. Texas
Pacific. Kansas City Southern, Penn
sylvania, Missouri Pacific, Interna-
tional and Great Northern, Southern
Pacific (Atlantic and Pacific lines)
Southern Railway, Louisville and
Nashville, Virginia Railroad, st.
Louis and Southwestern, Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul 0ines east
and vest. Northern Pacific, Chicago.
Rock Island and Pacific, Seaboard
Air Line, Erie and Chicago Great
Western.
| AZ Out OF 4S states Touched.
| The railroads listed in the first
group on which the strike is to be-
! come effective touch forty-two OF
the forty-eight States, with track
age of $4,000 miles out OF the total
United States trackage of approx.
mately 100000.
The New England States compose
the group that is virtually untouched
in the first walkout.
The strike orders were issued to
the Big Five brotherhoods, oldest and
most powerful OF the railway unions.
and they specifically included mail
trains in the walkout. Their provi-
sions instructed strikers to keep
away from railroad property, with a
warning that violence of any nature
will not be tolerated by the organ.
izations."
The strike was announced follow
| ing an overwhelming vote, said to be
upward of 80 per cent. favoring a.
strike because of IL per cent wage
reduction authorized by the United
States Railroad Labor Board Of July
/. and after it was declared by the
Association Of Railway Executives
in session here Yesterday that fur
ther reduction would be sought by
| the railroads.
Anticipated Second Reduction.
1t was said that the strike decision
was made before the announcement
of this further intended cut. Printed
! instructions as to conduct of the
strike, issued in Chicago. were dated
yesterday, October II.
The country was divided into four
groups in which the men were au-
thorized to walk out progressively, one
group every twenty four hours. The
names OF the groups were not made
public, but. unofficially. the identity o.
roads in the first group TO go was
\ learned. subject TO changes. which
Q a
I first group Included some of tho cour-
/ try's greatest rail systems. from coast
TO coast and from Canada TO the Gulf.
The unions issuing the strike call
to-day were:
brotherhood of Railroad Trainmer
Brotherhood OF Locomotive Firemen
and Euginemen.
order Of Railway Conductors
Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers
switchmens Union of North Amer
1 lea.
The eleven other organizations.
whose chiefs have been i'm session here
and who said. unoflicially. that they
will join the strike. are as follows:
Sheet Metal Workers International
! Alliance.
International Association OF Mschin-
lists.
Brotherhood Of Railway and Steam
Z ship Clerks. Freight Handlers Express
and station Employees.
Brotherhood Of Stationary Firemen
and Oilers.
brotherhood OF Railway sienalmen
OF America
United Brotherhood OF Maintenance