The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-09-26
RAIL WAY COMP ANY
WILL IGNORE THE
U. S. LABOR BOARD
Will Present No Evidence. at
Hearing Granted It in Con-
nection With Dispute
PRESIDENT SAMUEL RAE
SENDS LETTER TO BOARD
Says the Carrier Will Exercise
the Right to Deal With It's
Own Employees.
tsy The Associated Press,

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 25,-The Penn
sylvanfa Railway company viii not pre-
sent any or all evidence at the hearing
granted it by the United States labor
board in connection with the shop crafts
committee election dispute. The hearing
is set fer tomorrow at Chicago The
company tonight made public letter
from President Samuel Rae to the board
in which he states that in view of the
fact that the board had declined to hear
the company upon the issues or law and
fact presented in its application for the
hearing and had limited the hearing to
three points. the company has nothing to
present. The letter will be filed with tho
board tomorrow by representative of
the company.
Mr.. Rae says the carrier asserts and
will exercise it's right to deal with its own
employees without the intervention OF in-
dividuals or organizations whose manifest
object is the denial of the fundamental
right Of employer and employees to deal
in the first instance directly with each
other respecting wages and working con-
ditions in which they alone are directly
Interested"
The company on August "a asked the
board to set aside its decision calling for
a new election Of shop crafts committees
to arrange rules and working conditions
and requested hea' Ing and submit oral
evidence On Ssn1amber 10. the board
granted the company's request but limited
the hearing to three points. They are:
What employees, not in the active SER
vice of the carrier. such as men laid off.
furlouEfed or absent upon leave, shall
participate in the election of committees;
how the representative capacity of spokes-
men of unorganized employees shall be
ascertained, and permitting the carriers
to offer evidence of the adoption or rat
ification OF its shop crafts rules by rep
resentatives of the crafts fairly selected
by majority of the employees of that
class.
Mr.. Rae in his letter also says:
'"The carrier reminds the board that
in its application it asked the board TO
find in pursuance of the transportation
act that the carrier has the lawful right
to establish rules and working conditions
in the first instance. either with or with
out first holding conferences with it's en-
pIoyes; and that the contracts respecting
rules and working conditions heretofore
entered into by the carrier and its en-
ployes in the shop crafts are aow in full
effect without further action on the part
of the carrier and its employees in the said
shop crafts. The board has refused to
grant hearing and to make such find
ing. and has in all respects declined to
hear the carrier upon the issues of law
and facts presented in its said appltca-
ton 1t follows therefore, that there is
nothing for the carrier to present in the
way of oral evidence on the day fixed
by the board, September 26.
1.-THE carrier notes that it is referred
by the board to its decision III which the
board arrogates to itself the right to ig-
more the decisions of the supreme court
Of the United States determining the re-
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