Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-03

Chicago. July 2.-(By The A. P.)-I Railway executives. union leaders and | the United States railroad labor board | marked time today in the counsry-wids | strike of shopmen while train service continued uninterrupted by Saturdays l walk-out.
 B. NJ. Jewell, head of the shoomen, | who ignored the orders of the labor | board to appear before it and explain his l strike action, spent the day at union 1 headquarters receiving reports from all sections of the country. While he refus- ed to give any figures. he asserted that the walk-out was practically 100 per cent"
 Railway executives, however, calm ed that probably less than ninety per cent. of the 401, 900 repairmen had join ed the walk-out which began at 10 a. | m. yesterday. Because of the Sunday holiday, they said that they had been
 unable to make a complete survey of 1 their shopmen, but that train service would continue regardless of how many laid down their tools.
 1 With the union leaders refusing to | treat with the labor board. the railway
 executives asserting that the dispute was ] entirely between their former employees l and the government, the labor board i assuring the full protection of the gov
 ernment, interest in railway circles was i centered on Detroit. where the executive f council of the United Brotherhood of
 Maintenance of Way Employees, will meet tomorrow to canvass the strike | ballot of the track men. Hope was ex- pressed by the rail executives that the i maintenance of way men would not join Il the walk-out.
 l Mir. Jewell today explained he ignor- cd the labor boards summons because the board failed to exclude from wage } reduction hearings almost eighty roads that had in part or wholly violated rla- | ings of -4fe--revernnaen which -l he said has >cztised railway employees to I regard the board with no slight misgiv-
 ings.
 j "Practicaily all of these eighty roads Il violated decisions of the labor board, ' Mir Jewell said. rYet they were inciud- ed in the wage reduction hearings. If {, the board had ruled that these roads
 were not entitled s5 particlIete in
 these hearings the respect of railroad la bor for the tribunal would have been 3 increased. Railroad labor would then { have looked upon, the board as a tri- : bunal willing and ready to deal out jus ? tice. If this had been done. the officials . of the shop crafts could have gone to
 the men with this as an argument and
 averted the strike. But this was not QOne ana pOSIpyHCIIlc4Al VI l4Ac cNA Aht :" oC
 huTnaniy impossible.
 Tn the first p,ace my appearance be-
 fore the board could not have resulted in arbitration. The board should have s11hpoenaed officials who signed the tele-
 gram authorizing the strike. Only those men could recall the order If l had
 done any such thing I would have 1or' feited my office immediately.
 Classification of my refusal to cbel 1 se seeu in fhe fact ina
 the men are now on strike. without : bloodshed, or loss of life and are up holding law and order. If I had gon' . before the board there would have re suited miaunddrstand!Tk5s which wou-c ] have ended in chaos among the shol crafts organizations"
 . MT. Jewell esfd that announssmen ! of the re=ults of the shopmen's striki ballot would probably be made puonc to 5 morrow afternoon following a meeting O
 the executive council of the union. HI
 said that since the strike orders becam'
 effective he has received numbers of tel egrams confirming reports that the walk 2 out was almost 100 per cent. effective . One of the telegrams. he declared, wa n from the national hearquarters of th' . Brotherhood of Railway Car Men O d America. and said that this organization n was 100 per cent. responsive to th'
 strike order.
 ,. sThe strike ballots show a most in h telligent understanding of the issues. e Mir. Jewell continued. Three ballotl h once each on wages. working rules an ' outside contracting by the roads, wer c submitted and the results in each wer = different, indicating the railroad me - know their wants. When the results C , these three votes are announced th = main question at issue in this stris z will be apparent.
 Strike instructions have been male j to all shop crafts locals, MT. Jewr ' said. The strikers have been requeste |, to obtain a meeting hall. elect pre- 2 siding chairman and arrange nccessar e | picketing.
 aaThere is a growing realization anon
 the American public" he said. 4''that
 is willing to take positions vacated Y union men because of disagreement
 with their employers
 The reference to 'scabs" was seen 2 r an answer to statement made by Be W. Hooper. chairman of the lahe f board. yesterday in which he as5erts ' that the strike was directed against fh 1 decisions of properly constituted go' ! ernment tribunal and that. hsTefor
 men "who assume the work abandone f by the striking railway employees" car l. not justly be repFoached with the CD |. thets of "scab1 or strike-breaker d terr,s to which much approbriun a d taches in some quarters.
 .- Railway executives meanwhile reite d ated that the strike had not affected l. the slightest degree their movement (
 freight or passengers. despite a recni l. breaking number of pre-holday traye
 CTS. and assured that 1t would be
 matter of weeks or months before tl
 waIkout could impair seriously the 2 D fciency of their service.