The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-10-21
TRANSPORTATION
1|EUP LOOMS UP
RAiLMEN HuRL STRIKE THREAT
At EMPLOYERS " DEMANDS
ARE NOT MET PROMPTLY
WorkerS utimation Promises Walk.
out October &c :. hesotia-
tons on Wages Are
Not Resumed

Chicago-Rail workers hurled an ul-
timatum at their employers Friday by
deciding to strike October 80 unless
negotiations on wages and working con-
ditions were reopened.
Railroad executives, who met here
Friday. defied the most powerful Ia
Dor unions in the nation by proceed
ing with their plans to slash wages In
the face Of strike.
The decision to strike was reached
by heads Of the railroad brotherhoods
following days Of conferences.
According to the plans mapped out
Dy the union heads, men on all lines
will not be called out at once. The
nations transportation system has
been divided into ten groups for strike
purposes.
Workers on the roads comprising
one group will be called out first. Then,
II the management refuses to confer
with the men with a view to lettering
wages and working conditions workers
in the next group will be called out,
and so on down the line until every
one of the two million union workers
have deserted their posts and tied I'D
he nations transportation system.
These are the railroad union chiefs
who called the strike and mapped out
the plan:
w. s. Stone, Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers.
l.. e. Sheppard, Order of Railway
Conductors.
w. s. Carter, Brotherhood Of Loco
motive Firemen and Engineers.
T. G. Cashen, Switchmen's Union of
North America.
w. G. Lee of the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen did not sit in on
the sessions.
The big brotherhoods have the back
ing of members of the Federated Shop
Crafts who are affiliated with the rail-
way department of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor.
The shopmen of whom Bert M. Jew
ell is president, We're the first to vote
overwhelmingly in f"vor of a strike,
but held up their decision pending &C.
don of the brothernoous.
All union men will act together in
the crisis, it has been decided by their
leaders.
The strike vote was taken in pro-
test against the II per cent cut in
wages which took place on July 1, on
orders of the United States railroad
labor board.
Since then, however, several men
high In the councils Of uniOnism have
stated that they would not use this
powerful club unless another attempt
was made to cut wages.
Things moved rapidly to head fol-
lowing the news that was given out
by the unemployment conference in
Washington that leaders in the adj
ministration favor reduction in wag.
es SO that freight rates may be slashed
In an effort to stimulate !stagnant bus
mess conditions.
These rail executives, leaders OF
those who went into session here Fri
day, conferred with President Harding
Secretary of Commerce Hoover anC
other administration leaders in Wash
ngton last week:
T. Dewitt Cuyler; Samuel Rea, pres
ldent of the Pennsylvania system
President Smith of the New York Cen
trial.; President Holden Of the Bur
lington, and Julius Kruttschnitt, chair
man of the board Of directors Of thu
Southern Pacific.
Following the conference in Wash
ington came the call for the meetin,
Of railroad executives in Chicago.
Executives plan, according to thu
best available information, to ask tn,
United States railroad labor board 70
10 per cent cut in wages In addition
to the II per cent that was ordere,
last July.
The original petition presented t
the labor board by w. w. Atterbury
vice president of the Pennsylvania
asked for 20 per cent cut. This woul
nave brought wages to the level the
were before the board granted the in
crease in pay in July, 1920. The raj
road board, however, granted the ex
ecutives IL per cent instead of the
per cent asked.
Now executives want the rest of tn
cut they asked for and state that I'll
less 1t Is granted, many roads will &
broke and it will be impossible to Gu
freight rates, for which the farme
and business men all over the countr
ara clamoring.
8'asts Examiners SWamped
Berlin--rhe right of initiative a.