The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-10-27
TENTH RAIL UNION
REFUSES To QUIT
SignaImen Vote Not to Go on
Strike With Big Five.
BOARD HOPES FOR PEACE
Latest Balk of Labor Men SWells
Number of "Faithfup Workers to
1,50o,0 o0-Next Meeting Seized
uled for Tomorrow.


Chicago, Oct. 25.-Still obdurate in
their declarations for a strike, the
four train-service brotherhoods and the
Switchmen's Union of North America
have lost the support of all but one
of the eleven unions in the so-called
STANDARD group" The last union to
Join the mo strike" movement was the
Brotherhood of Railway Signalmen,
who refused to join the brotherhoods.
The railway telegraphers alone have
agreed to walk out If the "big five"
strike October 30.
Board Members Optimistic.
Chicago, Oct. 25.-"There is great
reason to hope that the strike is
averted"
This was the high light of a state
ment issued by the United States rail-
road labor board as it prepared for
conference Wednesday with railroad
executives and leaders of the big five
brotherhoods in an effort to prevent
the walkout set for October 30.
Coming on the heels of the an
nouncement that the tenth rail union
brotherhoOds in a strike, this ex-
pressed confidence of the board led to
the belief that the board had in mind
official action that will effectually
avert the traffic tieup.
The Boards Statement Follows.
f, tn
the strike will be averted.
1.-THE railroad labor board has set
tied 700 disputes between railroads
and their employees in about a year
and a half. Many of these disputes
contained the possibility Of strikes or
lockouts.
THE railroad industry has gone
along with only few spasmodic tie
ups Of minor nature, while other in
dustries like building steel and coal
mining have suffered disastrous stop
pages or slow paralysis. Perhaps the
board is not to be credited with this,
but it Is a coincidence that there was
no such tribunal in the industries
which have suffered severely from
strikes.
The board is anxious to get the
present dispute out of the way in or
der that the restoration of sound bust
ness conditions may proceed
"Ail good Americans should refrain
from loose talk and provocative Ian
guage about either side of the contro-
rnnIing / of hn
assume that both parties to this con
troyersy are struggling in good faith
to solve some Of the difficult industrial
problems that are the aftermath
of the war, and that all governmental
agencies recognize the complexities
of the situation and are anxious to be
useful in their solution.
"Neither of the parties should be
alarmed or irritated by unwarranted
denunciation or insinuation from ire
spOnsible sources"
Five hundred general chairmen of
the brotherhoOds and a similar num-
Der of railroad executives will meet
with the board Wednesday, A meet
ing of the Association of Railway ex-
ecutives to discuss their attitude
toward Wednesdays conference was
called Cor today.
Believed Strike Is OF.
Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 25.-The high
tension under which the executives of
the five train service unions have been
laboring for the last two weeks has
been dropped and it Is believed that
some definite proposition has been
tentatively offered them which they
are ready to accept.
One railroad man high in the coun-
ellis of the locomotive engineers union
said: "There will be no strike Octo-
Der 80. OF this l am satisfied be-
cause of things which have taken
place within the last few days. But
the unions were not bluffing and we
fully expected to 90 out until today"
President w. G. Lee of the railway
tralnmen, following a long conference
of all five leaders of the big rail
unions, said this evening: Il, am not
at liberty to make public what took
say that what occurred would be
of vast interest to the public il you
knew what 1t was"
Hardings Strike Plans.
Washington Oct 25.-President
Hardng's plan for unfolding the law
in event Of general rail strike were
worked out in conference between
Attorney General Daugherty and dis
trict attorneys from the rail centers
Of tho nation, New York, Chicago. |
Cleveland, Buffalo and indianapolis.
"The government will not undertake
to run the railroads, but the govern
ment will see that the railroads are
operated said the attorney general
as he left the White House to meet
the assembled district attorneys.