Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-06-13
A. B. & A. STRIKERS
MEET WITH CHIEFS
Call on Big Crafts to Stand by
Them
ADOPT RESOLUTIONS
Want No Settlements That Do
Not Include A., B. & A.

At a conference Saturday between
strikers and grand lodge officers and
general chairmen of the unions at
filiated with the Atlanta, Birmingham
and Atlantic strikers, resolutions
were passed calling upon the chief
executives of the sixteen standard
railroad crafts to make no settle
ment of questions now before them,
including the wage reduction author
lied by the railroad labor board,
which did not include a successful
termination of strikes now in prog
ress on the A., B. & A. Railroad and
the NJ and N. A. Railroad in Ar
kansas.
The resolutions follow: ITO the
chief executives of the sixteen organ
izations, sirs and brothers: Follow
ing the action taken by the members
of the organizations who are now on
strike on the NJ and N. A. Railroad,
and the members of the fourteen or
CARNATIONS on the A., B. & A. Rail
way, who have also been On strike
since March 5, 1921, in an effort to
oppose cut in salary, desire to ex-
press their feelings and attitude in
behalf of the fourteen hundred men
and omen are represented in a gen
eral meeting from all points along
the line of the railway held at Fitz
gerald, Ca, June II. as follows
Whereas, the members of the Sin
teen standard railroad organizations
have been told repeatedly by the
chief executives of the organizations
that the members thereof must in
every case comply with title three OF
the transportation act of 1920, in dis
posing of disputes between a railroad
and employees, and, whereas, in obed-
fence to the law and advice of the
chief executives of the employees o!
the said organizations have endeav-
ored to comply fully with both the
law and the advice of their chief ex-
Scutive, and in addition thereto, the
G. lands act, and,
F9'Whereas the president of the A.
B. and A. Railway did on Dec. %
1920, give the general committee tc
understand that wages would be cut
on Feb. l. 1921, regardless of the law
United States Railway Labor Boart
or any other power. He, the presi-
dent of the A., B. & A., made the
following statement to the general
committees on Jan. II, 1921.
Il am willing for the labor board
to review this whole case offer nc
objection whatever to its doing so
but there is legal right involved
there, under whose contracts, that
neither the transportation act of 1926
nor any other or rule of the labor
board can set aside
And whereas, the president of the
A, B. & A. Railway during Decem.
Der, 1919, importuned business mer
and others to write members of Con.
gress urging them to pass the Esch
Cummins bill, other railroad p-esi
dents doing likewise, and a,so the il
vestigation now being conducted by
the Senate interstate commerce com
mittee shows exclusively that the cr
tire railroads of the cour'ry IT" IN
terested in supporting the labor
section of the Transportation act
therefore indicating that the railroads
are responsible for the passage of tn,
Esch-Cummins bill, and
Whereas, the labor section of tn,
transportation act has been hagrantl,
violated by the receiver OF the A., B
& A. Railway, who is operating tn,
said railway under the authority O.
the United States Court and
Whereas, we believe other rail
roads are giving financial aid anc
diverting freight to the a., B. and A
Railway in order to defeat the mer
and women who went on strike or