The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-17

Cleveland, october 1s.-Wlth tht
 announcement today that the big fiv, railroad transportation chiefs wii
 meet here Tuesday to discuss plans
 for carrying on the nation wide pro
 gressive railroad strike that has been
 set to begin at a. m. Sunday. octo-
 ber 30, w. G. Lee, president of the
 Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen,
 declared that nothing but a miracle
 can prevent the strike going Into eff feet.
 Mir Lee returned to headquarters
 this afternoon from Chicago, wher,
 yesterday the five transportation or
 ganizations ordered the strike, and al
 once began sending out official no-
 tices of the strike order to approxi-
 mately 300 general chairmen of his organization, who did not attend the Chicago conference. General chair
 men of the four other organizations attended the conference and were given their orders there.
 Nothing but a miracle can stop this strike" said MT. Lee. Still there may be savior some place, but I am afraid not"
 Strike Order Final Mir Lee explained that the strike order sent out to the five organiz:s> tions was final and definite, no .1,ro- visions being made for a posHpone- ment of action. Onls' satisfactory settlement before, the date ssot for the strike to begin has been provided for in he instructions sent to the general chairmep.
 , Mir. bce said thatg Inc strike Is ii protest against the4ll2 per cent wage reduction. ,'
 Grand officasfs of the Brotherhood of Engineers were arriving here to- night fo% conference tomorrow wifh Grand fehlef Warren $. stone at which they Twill receive final instructions befo!fe departing for the districts over which they have saperyision. MT stone. w. $. Carter. president of the Brotherhood of Bremen and lEnginemen; L. F. sheppard, president | of the Order of Railway Conductors. l. and T. C. Cashsn. president of the | I.Switchmen's Union of North America.
 are expected to arrive here tomorrow to take part In Tuesdays conference. Sealed Cancellation Orders Orders for calling off tho strike in case A sStisfactor agreement" has
 been reached, are conta iued in sealed code messages mailed to all general
 chairmen with the official strike or der, which are not to be opened until | receipt of 8 code telegram. If this | code telegram and the sealed code | message are identical, the general chairmen will know the strike has been settled. All the code seiegrants sent to the general chairmen are 1 Unrded 1iffaranf1,r
 chairmen In passing along similar in structions to local chairmen will use 1 different codes also.
 l The purpose of using this code sys- l tenn, rather than one general cods word. it was said. is to prevent the brotherhoods being imposed upon | should the code word fall Into i'm l proper hands or otherwise. | REFUTEs STATEMENT St. Louis, October 16.-E J. | Manion, president of the Order of l Railroad Photographers, tonight re- futed the statement of Thomas Pier son, vice president of that organ | ization, in statement to the Asso- ciated Press in which he said t-he policy of tt.e Order of Railroad 1e- Iiegraphers has not been torinu- lated. and Mir. Plerson is not authors ixed tn g.vc out any such sta.ement.
 Our policy v.ll not be known .f..il October 21.
 The general chairman of the or ganization will be convened in Chi-
 cago on October 21 to discuss the
 Holicy and arrangements of the or
 tganization relating to the strike and whatever action Is decided upon
 will be announced at that time.
 MT. Pierson is not authorized to
 make such a statement as sent out
 From Chicago"