The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-23
RAILROAD MEN
 PLAN FOR STRIKE
 AT BOSTON MELT
Sure to Come" Workers Are Told, 50 Lay in Your
 Supplies

More than 500 delegates, representing shopnen employed on the New Haven, the Boston and Albany and the Boston and Maine railroads met in Faneuil hall
 in Boston on Monday night and after listening to addresses by representatives of the Railway Employees branch of the American Federation of Labor, return ed to their various local divisions yes terday and urged the workers in every department to lay in supplies now and prepare for an extended strike. The strike will be countrywide, 1t was de- clarcd but the workers were warned not to take part in any trump" strike but to await action and call by the national brotherhoods chiefs. The meeting was told that no definite action will be taken until it is learned whether the Railroad Labor Board rescinds it's action Tn re- ducing wages and changing working rules as has been requested. If 1t doesn't the strike will surely follow.
 The sentiment of the meeting was that under no conditions must the men be goaded into sporadic strikes, but that they must be guided entirely by the laws of their various unions and act, If action must come, in concert with other members of organized labor on the rail- roads of the country.
 Speakers for the A. F. of L. were b. J. Collins, general vice president of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, and Walter M. Chase, international repre- sentative of the Blacksmiths' Union. Others who spoke were Robert Tender son, general chairman of the Boilermak- CTS Union on the New Haven; Frank Jennings, business representative of the International Association of Machinists j; William Mcdonald, president of Char lestown Metal Trades Council; Fin1ay Mackenzie. general chairman of Divi- sion No. ?. Carmen, Railway Employees Department of the A. F. of L.; M. s. Riordan, general chairman of B. X M. ; and Ex-Mayor James M. Curley.
 MT. Collins said that 1t IS the object of the railroad managers of the country to put workers back 25 years by disrupt ing their organizations. Their design now is, he said, to force trump" strikes, in order to gain that end, and then to put into effect the 12-hour day He said he brought the word directly from Pres. Jewell and the Executive Council of the Railway Employees Department, of the selves ready for action, but to remain dt WOlh uiltll lllSy get lllS WOlu HUH their officers for a concerted nationwide strike, Tn case 1t becomes necessary. Mir. Henderson, speaking for the work CTS in the local shops, said they would hold themselves patiently in readiness for any move decided upon by the lead CTS and that they would support their leaders to the last man. This was greeted by prolonged applause,
 Every man on the three railroads will go out if asked" he concluded.
 MT. Mackenzie thought that the situa- ton has gone too far to prevent a strike You were never nearer a strike than you are at present" he said. But remain at work until you get the word Act as a unit The Railway Labor Board will not rescind its decision. There will have to be a strike, and before the strike is over we will have Government control of the railroads.
 'Decision No. 222 will drive us on the streets. Get in your coal"
 Ex-Mayor Curley denounced the open shop drive, and urged that the men stick together and act in accordance with the direction of their leaders.