Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-10-17

:tober 80.
The San Diego and Arizona railroad
was added to the first of the four
groups into which the unions have
divided the roads for strike purposes
and it was decided to order the three
succeeding groups out at 4S hour in
tervals instead of "a hours apart
Under this plan, with the men on the
roads in group number one walking
out October 30, the strike would be
in full effect November 5. The Louis
vile and Nashville railroad also was
dropped from the first group, accord
ing to the list given out by union
leaders.
These changes were said by union
leaders to complete assignment of
roads to the first group on which
walkouts would take place and the
Following were made known as the
official list of carriers in that group:
The Roads Effected.
kansas City Southern: Missouri
Pacific. st. Louis Southwestern. Got
ton Belt) international and Great
Northern: Texas and Pacific: South
ern Pacific {Atlantic Line system in
Guiding Houston. East and West)
Texas and Houston, Texas Central;
Southern Pacific Pacific system).
San Diego, and Arizona: Chicago and
Northwestern: Chicago. Milwaukee
and st, Paul: Except Chicago. Terre
Haute and Southeastern1. Northern
Pacific: Southern Railway, lines east
and west: Seaboard Air Line: vir-
ginia Railroad; Chicago Great West
ern: Chicago Rock Island, and Pa
eific.
While no official information was
forthcoming as to what group the
Pennsylvania lines would be placed in.
it was understood that they would be
assigned to Group Thee on which the
walkouts are scheduled to start
November g.
The transfer of the Pennsylvania
lines from Group / was unexplained
by union leaders but caused consider
able surprise as that road had been
considered by the unions as the most
antagonistic of any tosthem and it was
believed that the first strike would
be ordered on it.
Leaders Desert Chicago.
By midnight Sunday Chicago had
been deserted by virtually all of the
leaders of the big four brotherhoods
and the Switchmen's Union of North
the organizations in which
IN organization in which an official
strike call actually had been issued
and the hub of the situation was being
to Cleveland, Ohio, where
the presidents of these five unions
will meet Tuesday to complete the
of the railroads and settle
the final details of the proposed walk
out
The union forces gained strength
Sunday when Thomas NJ Pierson,
rice president of the Order of Rail
road Telegraphers. announced that
he 81 600 members of his organiza-
md that they would make every effort
o completely tic up country's trans
,ortation systems.
1t IS our aim to tie up transporta-
ion so completely that it will be i'm
possible for train to move" said
Mr.. Pierson. IF every telegrapher
quits work that will mean that no
rain orders can be sent and train
service necessarily will be at stand
;till. There is no question but that we
viii order our membership out on
october 80. but the final instructions
probably will not be issued until
october 81"
The shop crafts unions, comprising
lbout 416.0O0 employees. Sunday de-
erred the formal ISSUANCE of strike
all pending meeting to- be held here
Wednesday. but their leaders openly
that their organizations
viii be called out and that the delay
n sending out the call has been
aused purely by the time needed to
lraft the final plans and orders.
At the same time, ha1 -
hop crafts leaders hav
,nown that while they.
With the brotherhoods
witchmen. they are not
tay out after their own !Zs
ave been satisfactorily nd 4. 4
'Our organizations will rsthrn to
york when they are satisfied that
hey have gained their individual
o;nts." said high official. THE con
essions which would satisfy one body
{ workers might not satisfy another.
I is quite certain that we will all be
n the same track going out. but
here are many sidings and we don't
ave TO come hack together
r. NJ. Jewell, head of the railway
mployes department. American Fed
ration of Labor. which comprises the
hop crafts-said his men never would
ave been called out independently on
question OF wages alone.
Fight to Last Ditch
Acting independently. our men never
ould go ont IN q question Of wages
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