The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-10-28
RAILWAY STRIKE
OF 100000 men
Five Hundred General Chairmen
of Powerful BrotherhoodS Leave
Chicago With Sealed Orders.
PLAN TO AVERT TROUBLE
President Harding Acts to Avert Gen.
erai Tie-Up of Transportation but
Union Leaders Declare Instrue-
tons Are Final.

Chicago.-Strike of the S,OUO,OO0
railroad workers of the country was
ordered
The men were ms ructed to start
walking out or October 30.
Strike orders ivc beer formally s.
sued and will not be recalled, according
to the railroad union chiefs, unless ex-
ecutives yield in their intention to cut
wages.
Railro.,d work s on seventeen Ines
will walk out a, a. M. October 30
This will be followed by others.
Heads of the railroad brotherhood
reached their dec sion but held off for
NAL announcement in the hope that
railroad executives WE uld back dcwn
in their demand that wages be cut 10
per cent in addition to the II per cent
cut last July.
The announcement was made ;-fter
most of the 500 general ohairmIn and
five brotherhood chiefs who participat-
ed IL a final conference left for home
with sealed strike orders in their pock-
cts to notify the rank and file of rail
road union membership to prepare for
war
The railroads Of the natiCn, accord
ing to the str ke plans, hive been di-
vided Tito ten groups. Men in the
first group will be called out October
80. If railroads do not meet the de-
mands of the Union following this, the
remainder of the groups VIII be called
out one by one.
The chiefs of the fl e -otherhoods
will meet in Cleveland It was stated
Details of the strike will be perfected
at the meeting.
Cleveland is The permanent head
iCarters Of the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen, Brr t,erhood of Loco
motive Engineers and the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen and Engine
men.
The Order Of Railway Conductors is
located at Cedar Rapi..s, Iowa, and the
Switchmen's Union Of North America
in Buffalo
This strike action was Erecipitated
when railroad executives slashed
wages for the secor time in six
months and refused to reopen negetia-
tions and IS to come October 20, ac-
cording to best infornGtion
Union heads when they met here
did not talk peace. They hel( Il ey had
only one course open to them-strike.
If they backed down, according to one
high official. the backs of the most
powerful, union organizations in the
world would have been broken forever
This is what apptned at the mo-
mentous meet.ng acco, di,. 10 informt.
ton divulged to II e United Press.
Warren L. Stone, grand chief Of the
engineers, went through the formality
of reading the declaration of war.
He read over, one by ne, the over
whelming vote by which members of
rail unions voted to walk out
"Thats our veclict, gentlemen" he
was reported as saying. "We did our
best to avert strike, but the G. ecu
tives refused to cor ciliate. This is the
Showdown. We i ust either strike or
quit. And we are not going to quit"
The remainder Of the time-the
meeting lasted four hours was spent
in passing ut Sc. led orders . gen
eral chairmen.
w. G. Lee, president of the Brother
hood of Railway Ia 'nmcn, the pacifist
of railroad unionism, die not atten the
meeting.
"What was the use to attend2" he
fired back at question.
mo action was taken there Every
thing was settled when the mana GERS
of railroads refused tC treat with u.s."
The brotherhood 'renod up a strike
office in Chicago with H. X. Daugherty,
assistant grand chief of The engineers
in charge. "Joint Committee" in foot
high letters, was printed on the win
d0ws
In order not t. ALLEVIATE the SYM
pathy of the public-needed . win any
strike-eIaborate preparations have
been made to move food supplies dur
ing the strike