Imperial Valley press., 1921-10-19
RAIL TANGLE
CAUSED BY
TOO MANY
BOSSES
Action of Employees Seems
Uncertain - Executives
dan Authorities Profess to
See Quick Defeat Of Strike

Chaotic and uncertain conditions
prevail in the threatened national
strike of railroad employees, scheduled
for October 30, as will be seen from
the following kilograms from the var
ious headquarters of union leaders and
railroad executives and Federal gov
ernment boards and officials. The
railway employees are apparently not
united in the demand for a general
strike and the authorities are uncer-
tain as to what they will do, except
that they will fight.
CHICAGO, Oct. 1S.-Developments
in possibility of strike order by 9th
ers of the fifteen standard labor or
ganizations besides the five train serv-
ice bodies, was seen today in call
for the assembling tomorrow of a
conference of the committee of 100 Of
the Railway Employees department. of
the American Federation of Labor.
The committee has full power to order
a strike of the six shop crafts.
CHICAGO, Oct. 19.-In the event a
general strike is called the railroads
are prepared to do their utmost to
move the necessities, utilizing to the
fullest possible extent all the man
power available, said President Chas
II. Markham. of the Illinois Central
here this morning.
The present transportation tangle
added President Markham. is due to
the fact that 90 public school bodies
have had to do in the fixing of rules
wages, income and expenses of roads
and the railroads have had no say in
the expenditure of 81 per cent of then
operating costs. The remedy. he said.
is to place once more in the hands OF
the railroad managements, under COM
petent, broad minded supervision ant
control of operating costs in such a
way that the responsibility may prop
erly be fixed upon the management
for the operation of their properties.
CLEVELAND, Oct. 19.-Why has
not tie Washington administration
long ago taken the position it has. If
it intends to find out if the UniteG
States Railroad Labor Board is use
less public body. Warren S. Stone,
president of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, asked in state
ment this morning, commenting on the
press reports of the proposed conter-
ence between the Big Five railroad
Transportation leaders and the Board
at Chicago tomorrow, which is to de-
velop an answer to the question.
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-The national
railroad strike, often threatened in re-
cent years, will actually occur this
time, according to the majority of
railroad officials in New York.
If there is strike the railroads will
win hands down in a weeks time, ac-
cording to l.. F. Loree, president of
the Delaware and Hudson railroad.
Other executives said that the strike
would be beaten in less than a month.
In its effects, according to Loree
and others, it would be comparable
with the outlaw strike of 1920 rather
than with the last great railroad strikt
which occurred in 1894.
The reasons set forth for the be-
lief that a strike is likely at this
time though similar threats in re-
cent years have not resulted in strikes
are that the LEADERS of the railroad
men have put themselves in position
from which it Is difficult to retreat
and that no concessions are likely to
be made by the railroads or the. gov
ernment to make their retreat easier.
The reasons set forth by railroad
officials for believing that they will
vim the strike. and win it quickly, are
as follows:
The threatened strike, as they view
it, is not against the railroads, but
against a legal decision of the Rail-
road Labor Board, so that the issue
is not between the railroad employees