The Washington times., 1922-10-11
TERMINAL MEN
REFUSED THEIR
FORMERP[ACES
Superintendent Of Company
Denies Jobs to Those Who
Went on Strike.

While the first chill Of autumn
finds the great majority of the
100000 members of federated rail-
road shop crafts who walked out
July back on the job, under
separately negotiated agreements.
and secure against the wolves Of
winter and unemployment. hundreds
Of former Washington Terminal
employees, on best accounts, remain
jobless or irregularly employed.
From the very first day OF the
strike, Superintendent Herbert J.
Tonge, OF the Terminal Company.
preserved an adamantine attitude
toward any hint of reconciliation
with the shopmen who laid down
their tools that hot midsummer
morning. They were stricken from
the rolls, and would never be taken
back while he had charge. he de-
clared. He has not buldged one
iota from that position, II is known.
though the terminal heads nave
nothing to say in the matter eH'
cept this. ,,,,
skilled mechanics, and we nave
heen right along. We are not out
for any controversy with the unions
here, and we have nothing TO aou
to previous statements.
Left without Redress.
Had a straight agreement with
the shopmen been negotiated py
the Association of Railway Execu'
tives, pressure might have peen
brought locally to reinstate tne
men admitted by the terminal Oh.
ficials to have been satisfactory
workers. But the separate settle
ments simply left the washington
strikers "out on a limb.
1t was strongly hinted To-Day tnat
negotiations, or preliminary Ntps
toward negotiations. were soihs
forward between termihai acn nnu
.maChinists' representatives.. ne
only words from those salh 10 ne
concerned, however, were' from
agents for the former shop WORK
crs. that nothing could De salu
about Il at this time, ana lroin
the depot chiefs the sentehces
quoted above. -,as
Several weeks ago the various
locals with representatives IN .he
Central Labor Union Of Washington
were asked to contribute dohar d
month per member towards the
support Of needy ones among 'ne
strikers. According to Charles II.
Frazier, business agent for the
shopmen, the response has been
generous enough to take care Of
eli deserving cases" Just how
much is coming in Frazier did not
say.
But upwards of 1000 men can
not continue to subsist indefinitely
upon such fraternal aid. AS con-
sequence Of the more than three
months lockout, 1t Is said, prac'
tically unattached strikers nave
sought employment in other fields.
mostly with railroads which have
adopted a policy Of taking back
their old men. Some have obtained
Jobs here, through the District
branch Of the Department OF
Labor's employment service anu
other instrumentalities. The market
for machinists, however, Is falling
to a low level, and Is likely to Oe
further depressed with the coming
Of cold weather.
Hold Daily Meetings.
The shopmen are clinging griElly
to their union standards. They con-
tinue to hold their daily meetings,
prescribed as these were were under
the original terms of the Chicago
injunction, obtained by Attorney
General Daugherty and now made
permanent. Their legal representa-
tives have promised to go further in
the effort to obtain a counter re
straining order on District Attorney
Peyton Gordon and United States
Marshal Edgar c. Snyder. to pre-
vent these officials from putting
into effect in the District the tel ms
of the Chicago order.
But the situation as regards a So
luton involved IS depressingly
static. While all over the country
the union brothers with whom the
local strikers swore to stand or fall
are back on the job, adding to the
savings accounts, buying what coal
they can and providing in general
against the cold season, hundreds
here, nearly all with dependents, are
leading i'm the main n most DreCdri.