The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-05
STRIKERS ARE
WAITING FOR
settlement
Jewell Says Shop Union Can't
Be OutIawed by Rail Board.
Doesn't Want Other Rail
Unions in His Strike, He Says.
NOT OUTLAWED, HOOPER SAYS
In Personal Letter to Jewell He
Denies That Application.
Board Didn't Outlaw the Shop
Crafts From Aid, He States.
Doesn't Want Other Rail
Unions in His Strike, He Says.
NOT OUTLAWED, HOOPER SAYS
tBy the Associated Press.l


Salter Mo, July 5.-Striking shop
men here have seized the Chicago &
Alton railroad shops, driven out nom
union men brought in to work in the
shops and are holding the shops this
afternoon.
Eighteen men were driven from the
shops today. Yesterday twenty-five
were driven out. Union officials said
the nonunion men were placed on
trains and sent from the town. Other
reports declared that the nonunion
men were merely taken from the
shops, and that they left town volun-
tarily. Sheriff John Logsdon is on
his way here from Marshall. the
county seat.
Alton officials said that three
guards employed by the railroad at
the shops had been arrested by local
authorities and placed in Jail, and
that their property was without pro-
lection of any sort.
(By the Associated Press.)
Chicago, July 5.-Striking railway
shopmen who walked out in answer to
the nation wide call from the head
quarters of the six shop crafts unions
here last Saturday. were reported
drifting back to work today in groups
of uncertain size.
Today was considered the turning
point in the strike of $4,000 to 400,-
900 workers.
Local union reports to the office of
B. NJ. Jewell. head of the shopmen,
reiterated the union assertion that the
strike was 100 per cent effective at
all points reporting.
Chicago, July 5.-The first move
toward re-establishment of relations
between the striking railway shopmen
and the United States railway labor
board, was taken today when Ben W.
Hooper, chairman of the board, ad-
dressed letter to B. NJ. Jewell, leader
of the strikers, in which Hooper de-
MED the board had "outlawed" the
striking shopmen.
The letter was interpreted by mem
bers of the board as peace move"
that afforded an opportunity for the
shopnen and the board to get to-
gether for q conference looking to-
ward readjustment OF the strike diff
ferences. Hooper's letter said IN
part:
with reference to the 'outlawing'
of the shopcrafts, the board has not
done SO. You previously err when
YOU state the railroad labor board has
chief, Mr.. Gompers, fell into the same
error in his statement about the mat
ter.
st am yet quite hoperui that your
Orga niZatiOn Will recover It's eQu1l-
brium and discern that it is vastly
better for 1t to go alo~~ with the rail-
road labor board, patiently when 1T
makes mistakes. but confidently at all
times that it profoundly desires to do
justice to the men, the carriers and
the public, without fear, favor or, af-
fection.'
The striking railway employees
are ready and perfectly willing
to consider any proposal from any
one in authority, including the la
Dor board, which will lead to
settlement of the strike of the 400, 600
men," it was stated today by a high
union official at the headquarters of
the railway employees department of
the American Federation of Labor.
He's Ready to Arbitratc.
'If they have anything to Offer"
continued this Official, I'VE are ready
to consider it,
Concerning the possibility of set
Ting the strike. 3. NJ. Jewell, head of
the striking railway men, declared:
I'VE have been and are now anx-
ious to meet authoritative representa-
tfves to settle this dispute. which can
and ought to be settled. This talk
about our having cut loose from the
labor board and refusing to consider
the labor board as a medium of set
Ting the strike has no official basis.
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