Evening star., 1922-07-20
D. c. STRIKERS Plan
BIG MASS MEETING
Sunday Program Will Open
Drive to Educate Public
on WaIk0ut.

Determined to strengthen public
support in their favor. striking rail-
road employees of the Washington
to familiarize the public with condi
tions which resulted in the nation
wide walkout July 1. The initial step
in this educational campaign will be
a public mass meeting Sunday morn
ing at 10 o'clock in the Avenue Grand
Theater on Pennsylvanih avenue
southeast, between 9Th and 7th
streets, which has been arranged by
the local machinists' lodges.
The purpose OF the meeting" said
Elmer H. Bailey, vice president of
Columbia Lodge. International Asso-
citation of Machinists. chairman Of the
committee { on arrangement. rs to
relations existing between the rail-
roads and the striking shopmen and
the conditions which compel these
men strenuously to resist the pro-
posed reduction of their pay"
Principal speakers will include A E.
Federal Board Of Vocational Educa-
tion; P. ]. Conlon, first vice president,
and E. c. Dawson, general secretary
treasurer Of the international Associa-
tion OF Machinists. and former Repre-
sentative Baer Of North Dakota. Sew
eral local labor leaders also will make
addresses.
1000 Clerks May Quit.
Interest in the strike situation local
ly centered today in Chattanooga,
Tenn. where the strike ballot taken
among the clerks Of the Southern rail-
way, who are affiliated with the Broth
erhood of Railway Clerks. is sched-
Id l.
strike of the clerks in this system is
called, the entire clerical force of the
general office of the railroad here,
numbering 1000. is expected to walk
out according to union oficials.
Claude E. Pullman. manager of the
that 1t probably would take sew
eral days before the results Of the
strike ballot Is known. Otherwise,
he declined to comment on a prob
able walkout of the local southern
clerks.
Stationary firemen. engineers and
oilers who walked out at the power
plant Of the Washington terminal
yesterday held a joint meeting to-
day with the striking shopcTaftsmen.
Newton A. James, local business rep
Brotherhoed Of Firemen Has. and oilers.
assigned the new strikers to picket
duty.
Although union leaders claim that
thirty-seven employees at the terminal
powerhouse went on strike yester-
day. terminal officials today said
had no effect whatever on the gov
ernment of trains in and out of the
big railroad terminal. Terminal
officials said they had no figures to
show exactly how many stationary
fremen. engineers and oilers quit
work. but the number ''is so small
it is hardly noticeable"
Everything Is quiet and normal
here commented a terminal official.
The strike of the powerhouse en-
ployes is so Insignificant that there is
nothing to ir.'
Charles Frazier, business represent
ative Of the striking shopmen, elated
the strikers today with reports that
the Pennsylvania railroad had been
houses its last reserve engine. Mr.
Frazier pointed out that at the incep-
tion of the strike the Pennsylvania
railroad claimed it had 800 engines in
reserve and during the last twenty
days has been forced to withdraw all
of them. The local shopmen took the
position that the report showed an
other victory for them.
Bulletin boards in the Union station
show that trains on virtually all the
roads operating into and out Of Wash
ington continue to arrive late. One
Southern railroad train was about
four hours late when it reached here,
while the Chicago flyer on the Balti-
more and Ohio. due in the station at
this afternoon. Train s2 on the At
lantic Coast Line was almost two
hours late when it arrived this morn
ing.