The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-10-25
Thinks Strike Will Be
Averted, and Asks
Tolerance.
SIGNALMEN DECIDE
NOT TO WALK OUT
Brotherhoods Hit by De-
lection of 1900 in
This Union.
tspsoi.i - II. w..Aisrt.n H.r.M.,

tsk~~~ - "eeA&1Bs0a 31Yx84osl
CHICAGO. Oct. 24.-There 10
great reason to hope the rail-
strike will be averted, according
to q statement made today BY the
United States Labor Board, which
also counseled all good Ameri.
cans" to refrain from loose talk
about either side Of the con-
troversy.
At the conference beginning
here Wednesday. every player IL
expected to put his cards face up
on the table. The Labor Board
has engeged the Coliseum annex,
which seats approximately 1000
OF these the roads and unions will
me allotted 400 seats and the re-
mainder will be. thrown open TO
the public. This Is the first time
the public, which pays all the bills
and endures all the discomforts of
a strike, has had an opportunity
| to sit in. 1t is believed the confer
ences will Hast until next Sunday
morning, the date set by the
brotherhoods for their general
strike.
Chairman Summoned.
Five hundred general chairmen
of the unions have been sum-
moned to attend and these 'invi-
tations" are practically manda-
tory. Rail Executives are also ex-
pected to attend and there will be
a chance for passing the buck"
to absentees on either side.
Additional complications arose
for the brotherhoods today. when
the 1900 members of the Signel-
mems Union refused to join in the
strike. They will remain at their
posts, but will refuse to be shifted
to any other duty to I'LL vacancies
left by strikers.
TeleEraphers to strike.
omcers Of the Railroad !Teteg.
raphers' Union denied rumors thai
they were near Q break with the
brotherhoods. President Mauiun
said some locals IN his organfza-
ton might continue at work. bu,
he believed the large majority OF
the telegraphers would walk out
with the brotherhoods. This would
seriously interfere with the move
ment of trains. even though the
rail executives were able to man
all trains.
The brotherhoods and the switch
mems union have repeated theil
warning to the Labor Board tina,
only satisfactory settlement
can prevent the strike.
Rail officials say the strike has
been broken before It starts. They
po!n ito the situation on the Inter
national ad Great Norther. o which
the traiRmen struck last Saturday
Passenger trains are operating as
usual and freight service Is being
restored to normal
Advertise for strfke-breakers.
Executive of roads entering Chi.
cago published today advertise.
ments for men to fill all positions
that will be made vacant in the
event the strike goes ahead. They
say they have received q flood OF
answers. and will have no difficulty
in finding enough men of expert
zee to fill every vacacy.
Dispatches from Cleveland say
report sare current there that the
brotherhoods are pinning hope for
transportation tie-up on the
chance of a runaway" strike by
the army of workers constituting
the ten independent uios whose Of.
ficers have decreed they shall no,
join in the walkout.
stone Optimistie. 49,.
Warren S. Stone, grand chief OF
the engineers brotherhood. stiil
cherished hope of something like q
general walkout 49, ,----.-s-
There has been no open break
between the FIVE organizations
making up the transportation group
and the other unions" he said
The situation has been very much
overdrawn. Each organization Is
free to use its own judgment"
Notwithstanding orders by the
U. 8. Labor Board to suspend prepa-
rations for the strike, the union
officials went ahead today. sending
out kilograms to general chairmen.
saying nothing had arisen to change
the order for the strike next
Sunday.
Figures On Wage Cuts.
Additional figures were submitted
today to chow that while all other
classes Of Industrial workers have
accepted reductions in wages in the
general REIMBURSEMENT, railroad men,
even with the 12h per cent cut. are
chasing power of their dollar 10 con-
cerned. than they were in 1914. be-
fore the war started the orgy of
inflated prices. In the July reduce
ton the big Five" brotherhoods.
who now appear to be going 1t alone
In the strike. got on easier than
did many other groups which have
tourned down the strike proposition.