Pueblo chieftain., 1921-10-17
Gle could prevent the strike.

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Mr. Lee returned to headquarters
today from Chicago and began send
ing out official notices of the strike
order to approximately 900 general
chairmen OF his organiza ton.
Only satisfactory settlement before
the date for the strike has been pro
yided for. in the plans.
Mr.. Lee said the strike is in pro-
| test against the IL per cent wage re-
duction of the railroad labor board
ehcctiNe last July l. He explained
that when the five railroad organiZa-
ton chiefs met with a committees of
fiNc railroad managers in Chicago Fri
day TO consider this wage reduction
and were informed by the railroad
managers that a further 10 per cent
wage reduction would be requested
The brotherhood chiefs gave up hope
of an amicablc settlement and tho
strike order resulted.
Chicago. ILL.,. Oct. 16.-CBy The As
sociated Press )-FinaI arrangements
for general railroad strike intended
TO tie up the natlon's transportation
system thru a walkout of the two mil
lion employees, rapidly were nearing
completion Sunday night with the
days Developments bringing two i'm
portant changes in original plans.
Foremost was a decision not to include
the Pennsylvania lines and the Eric
\ railroad in the carriers on which the
! first walkout is scheduled to begin at
6 o'clock in the morning October 80.
! The san Diego and Arizona railroad
was added to the first of the four
groups into which the unions have di-
/ vidcd roads for strike purposes and 1t
was decided TO oScr the three sue
cecding groups out at forty-cight hour
intervals instead of twcnty-four. I'm
Z der this plan with the men on the
roads in group number one walking
out October 30. the strike would be in
full effect November ).
Z The Louisville and Nashville railroad
also was dropped from the first group.
according to the list given out by union
leaders.
/ These changes were said by union
leaders to complete rcassignmcnt of
roads to the first group on which
walkouts would take place and the
following was made known as the Of
! fetal list of carriers in that group:
! Kansas City Southern, Missouri Pa
! cifc St Louis southwestern Cotton
BclD international and Great North
crn. Texas and Pacific, Southern Pa
rihc tAtlantc system, including
Houston Crcxas and CcntraD. South
crn Pacific CPacific SYSTEM. san
1 Diego and Arizona. Chicago and
/ Sorthwcstcrn. Chicago. Milwaukee and
st. Paul tcNccpt Chicago. Tcrrc Hautc
and Southeastern. Northern Pacific.
Chicago, Great Western. Chicago.
Rock Island and Pacific and South
crn railway dimes cast and wcsD, Sea-
board air line. Virginia railroad
While no official information was
Z forthcoming as to what group the
Pennsylvania lines woud be assigned
II was understood that they would he
placed In group three. on which the
walkouts are TO start November J.
All walkouts arc to begin mt O'Clock
in tho morning. standard time.
Transfer OF the Pennsylvania from
group one was unexplained : union
Headers but caused considerable sur
prise as that road has been consld-
cred by the unions as tho most an
tagonistic OF any to them and II was
believed that tho first strike would he
ordered on a.
BY midnight tonight Chicago had
been deserted virtually all leaders of
tho Big Four brothcrhoods and the
Switchmen's Union of North America
tho organizat ations in which an offic-
ial strike call actually has been issued
and tho uub Of tho situation was be-
ing transferred TO Cleveland whore tho
presidents OF these f1yc unions will
meet Tuesday to complete grouping Of
tho railroads and settle the final dc
tails Of tho proposed walkout.
The uniop forces gained strength
| today when T. NJ, Picrson. vice preai-
raphcrs announced that the $1,000
members of his organization were
pledged to strike and that they would
make every effort to tic M COM
plctely the transportation systems.
at Is our aim to tic up transportR-
tion 90 completely that Il will he i'm
possible for train TO move" he said
III everyone quits work. that will
mean no train orders can he sent and
trains necessarily will he at stand
still There is ne question but what
We will order our membership out
October 30 but tho final instructions
probably will not be issued until oc-
tohnr 81
The shop crafts unions comprising
about 47s.oo0 employees today deferred
formal issuance Of a strike call pend
ing meeting here "wednesday. but
their leaders have officially announced
that their organizations will hc called
ont and that tho delay in sending out &
the call has been caused purely by the
time needed to draft tho final plans
and orders.
At tho same time. however. shop
crafts leaders have made IT known that
while they will go out with tho broth
erhoods and the switchmen they arc
not pledged to stay out after their
own grievances have been adjusted.
our organizations will return to
work when they are satisfied they