, 1922-07-20

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TO ALL CONCERNED:
Your attention is directed to the following from the
Management of the Union Pacific Railroad Company:
New York City, N. Y, July l6, 1922.
Vice i; i President re- s Union Pacific System,
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dear Sir:
For the information of the general public from whom
inquiries have reached me as we'll as for the assurance
Of our shop employees and those who are entering our
service every day, and to the end that our former EN-,
you would communicate the contents Of this letter to the
public through the press, and to all Of our officials, so
that the public and each former employee shall be per-
Chairman Ben W: Hooper of the U. s: R. R. Labor
Board, July I, 1922, issued the following statement:
Regardless of any question of the right of the men to
strike, the men who take the strikers place are merely
accepting the wages and working conditions prescribed
by a government tribunal and are performing a public
service. They are not accepting the wages and working
conditions which an employer is II trying to impose.
For this reason public sentiment and full government
power will protect the men who remain in their positions
and new men who may come in
Subsequently the Labor Board has declared that the
rules and working conditions under which the mecFan-
jcal forces were working before the strike are still in full
force and effect. They cannot be changed except by
an agreement between our employees and the Manage
ment of this System, or in event of failure to reach
mutual agreement by our employees mot the former en-
ployes) and or the Management, ex-parte or jointly, re-
ferring the disagreement to the U. S. R. R. Labor Board
for decision. Therefore, since our former employees left
our service of their own free will and accord, thereby
ceasing to be employees of this system, the public and
those who remain loyal to our service and those who
have entered the service since the strike as we'll as those
who are entering our employ daily, may rest assured that
the Management of this system will use every resouce at
it's command to keep faith with them and unqualifiedly
pledges itself to make no settlement Of the strike which
will in any manner whatsoever deprive them of their
rights or jobs which they have gained in accordance
with our Shop Crafts agreement and the declaration of
the Labor Board.
The only way that any Of our former employees may
enter our service is as a NV employee, and the OppOrtun-
ity to even thus enter the service is growing less day by
day owing to the fact that our forces are rapidly in
creasing.
The public will keep in mind the fact that this strike
is not against this Railroad System, but that it is against
the decision of an agency Of our government, therefore,
the strike simply resolves itself into the question Wheth-
err the orderly processes of law and order shall prevail
or the arbitrary action of a very small minority. To
that question there can be but one answer - We are
Law Abiding People the orderly process of the law
shall prevail.
The Management of this System has religiously, at all
times, kept faith with its employees, both as to its spoken
and written word, and it always will.
Yours very truly,
{. RAY President.