New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-06
No Strike, Is
erdict of Rail
Union Leaders
Men To Be Told That Walk.
out Now Would Result
in Disruption of Their
Working Organizations
Take Cut Under Protest
Roads Warned Against Fur
Their Reduction; Insist
on Present Agreements
Special Dispatch to The rmoune

Special Dispatch TO The TrSbure
CHICAGO. July b.--Fear os the dis
ruption of the railroad unions. il
strike should be called now to defeat
t5e IL per cent wage cut ordered by
the Railroad Labor Board, induced the
1880 union representatives at o-days
session of their six day conference
here to decide to urge the workers not
to strike. The union leaders will carry
10 the men, III referendum affecting
all the unions, a resolution acceptinp
ine wage reduction under protest and
demanding that wages be raised aca:n
when the country returns to normal
Inc union heads will advise the men
that there is no hope oil winning a
strike II called at present, because the
sentiment of the country is decidedly
against strikes. They will warn the
workers that launching a walkout that
as lost before it starts would involve
the disruption of the unions. Under
1Eese circumstances the men will be
ADVISED to make the best of the stu
concessions they desire
Leaders said after the session TODAY
FRAT the referendum would be taken
50 On, and that it could be safely said
frat there would be no rail strike. Be-
lief was expressed that the workers
With memories of last years outlaw
STRIKE still vivid, would follow their
leaders advice. 1t is expected, there
fore. that the men will continue at
work while their leaders carry on the
agitation for the retention of the ma
iionai agreements on working cond-
lions or something just as good.
Railroads to Be Warned
Meanwhile the railroads will be
warned that limit has been reached
and that no further encroachments on
wages or working conditions, for which
the unions have worked thirty wears,
can be tolerated.
Out of to-day's session developed a
resolution, embracing FIVE points, which
the chiefs of the sixteen principal
unions will discuss Wednesday, II it
Is approved then by the different
groups the whole proposition will be
offered as a referendum to the rail
workers as soon as the general chair
ssnen return to their homes. The reso-
slatlon will contain these points:
: The wage cut decision of the Rail
road Labor Board will be accepted I'M
Ger protest as an unfair decision.
demand will be made that the rail
road workers of the country be given
a share in the general prosperity of
the country when normally returns
A demand will be made, that the
roads restore at an early date the
wages cut off by the July 1 decision of
sthe Labor Board.
An uitlmatum will be served on the
railroads that no further attempts be
made to make inroads into the estab D.
xlished rights of railroad workers, and
that efforts to get another wage cut
from the Labor Board be abandoned
demand will be made upon the
roads that rules and working condi-
tions which have been long in force
and are we'll established be secure
from further change and that the roads
withdraw their notice that changes in
agreements are to be made.
Strike Sentiment Ebbs
AS the sessions dragged out strike
talk has virtually disappeared and a
conciliatory attitude was expected when
the final action is made public.
The union leaders started in to-day
with a determination to finish up. The
Big Four" general chairmen said they
were in complete harmony as to their
course, but it was now matter of de-
vising the best means to accomplish
the end they desired The shop crafts
and big Four" apparently are divided,
as the former have voted against ac
ceptng wage cut. Reconciling the
opposing interests on a peaceful basis
has made it ongdrawn-out affair.
Delay in reaching an agreement be-
tween the shop crafts was said to be
due 30 their attitude on the question
of rules governing working conditions.
Negotiations to work out set of
rules to replace the national agree
ments have left the rules in. an un-
satisfactory state, according to union
leaders.
Among the shop crafts, the rules
were said to have caused more con-
Germ than the wage cut. The big four
brotherhoods, however, have considered
only the wage cut, their rules already
being matter of agreement on each
railroad.
One of the leaders said: "The rail
roads have offered us agreements that
would take the shirts off our backs
and deprive us of everything we have
fought for for thirty years. 1t is
bluff to make us take the cut. They
know we will never accept such terms,
but it is a compromising basis"
Stand Firm on Agreements
There is no essential disagreement,
and all that remains to be done is to
settle on the phraseology of our ac-
tion," Dan Corrigan. 'vice-grand chief
and veteran officer Of the Brotherhood
OF Locomotive Engineers, said. "The
railroads have sent out notices to all
organizations that they are going to
take up negotiations looking to the
establishment of new working agree
ments. Some of these agreements have
been in existence forty years. They
should know that they haven't one
1Ln
agreements.
''The purpose is to brighten the men
into accepting the II per cent cut made
by the Labor Board. We have nearly
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