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RAIL WORKERS
TO STRIKE OCT. so
Union Chiefs Issue Details to
Govern WaIk-Out.
II ROADS ARE HIT FIRST
Over 100000 Men Are Ordered Out
and 100000 May Be Affected.
Pennsylvania and Erie Are H:t.

PENNSYLVANIA and Erie Are Hat.
Chicago. Oct. 17.-NIore than o0UQ,Oou
railroad men We're ordered To strike
October 30, while other unions, whose
membership brings the total to about
y COG. 900 announced they are prepaf-
inc +, follow suit and make the walk
out general.
Under that program the ue-up
would be complete, according to nm
ion predictions, by November :.
The hour was fixed for A. NJ,
October 80. except for one Texas
line. whose trainmen were authorlZ-
ed to go out October %.
The railroads listed in the first
group on which the strike is to be-
come effective touch forty-two Of the
fortv-eight states with a trackage OF
10000 miles out of the total United
States trackage of approximately
5000 miles.
The New England states are selN-
ed by the group that is virtually I'M
touched in the first walk-Out.
Strike orders were issued TO the big
five brotherhoodS oldest and most
powerful o. the railway unions, and
they specifically include crews of mail
trains Their provisions INSTRUCT
strikers to keep away from railroad
property with a warning that "Vlo-
lence of any nature will not be to!er-
ated by the organizations"
The country is divided into four
groups. in which the mel are author
izede to walk out progressively, one
group every twenty-four hours. The
names of the groups were not
made public, but unofficially the iden-
tity of roads in the first group TO go
was learned, subject to changes, which
union officials said would he few. These
are:
Chicago and Northwestern, Texas and
Pacific, Kansas City, Southern Penn
sylvana. Missouri Pacific, Interna-
tional and Great Northern, Southern
Pacific, Atlantic and Pacific lines,
Southern Railway, Louisville and
Nashville, st. Louis, Southwestern
whether Texas included not stated,
Chicago, Milwaukee AMI st. Paul
Zines east and west), Northern Paci-
fic, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific,
Seaboard Air Line, Erie, Chicago and
Great Western and Virginian Railway.
The unions issuing the strike call
are the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen, Brotherhood of Locomotive
Fremen and Enginemen, Order of
Railway Conductors, Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers and switch
mems Union of North America.
The eleven other \ organizations,
whose chiefs have been in session here
and who said unofficially that they
will join the strike, are Sheet Metal
Wor.ers' International Alliance, Inter
national Association of Machinists,
ship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express
and Station Employees, Brotherhood of
Railway Signal Men of America, Unit
ed Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Employees and Railway Shop Laborers,
Order of Railroad Telegraphers,
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of
America, International Brotherhood of
Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders and
Helpers of America, International
Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, Dropforg-
ers and Helpers.
No further orders will be necessary,
the brotherhood chiefs said, to call
out rail workers on every big line in
the country.
Printed instructions were handed
every general chairman to govern the
mems conduct. These authorize a pro-
no Rr.cf of civ A M
October 80, to be followed by the
other three secret groups, each twenty
four hours consecutively.
Every chairman carried in sealed
packet a code word for use ii the
strike is called off. In event re
ceiving the code word from head
quarters, each chairman Is to open
his packet to identify The word.
Warren S. Stone. grand chief Of +
engineers, declined to comment on the
conferences of this week. He said an
announcement might be .-ade from the
Cleveland office later.
We're all through" Mr.. Stone said.
al can't tell you anything now, but
the die is cast"
w G. Lee, president of the train
men, said he had used every influence
20 avert a strike on TIE basis of the
u per cent wage reduction of July I,
1921, but that he felt any further re-
auctions would Justify walkout.
L. f. Sheppard, president OF the
conductors, said he could say nothing
reiter.Iting his announcement of sew
eral days ago that no official statement
would be given out here.
T. c. Cashen, head of the swift h.
men, and w. G. Carter, president of
the firemen, declined to make any
comment.