The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-07-07
RAILWAY BOARD
OUTLAWS STRIKERS

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3 New York, July 3.-The Railwa,
. Managers Association, of New York
2 announced after meeting late to
: day a decision to take the names o
all striking shopmen from payroll
, of Eastern roads entering this city
thereby depriving them of their Sc
, niority rating. The action follows
: the declaration of the railroad labol
board outlawing the strikers.
, E. M. Rine, chairman of the as
sociation, in making the announce
ment, said the managers also hat
, agreed to refuse further to recognize
unions now on strike. New unions
will be formed among men employed
to replace the strikers, he said.
Chicago, July 3.-Timothy Healy
president of the stationary firemen
and oilers, to-day dispatched tele-
grams to $50 of his local unions tell
ing them the men have a perfect
right to strike now" if they so desire.
The messages were sent in answer to
inquiries asking authority to join
the striking railway shopmen and re-
ports to Mr.. Healy to-day said that
about half of the firemen and oilers
had already quit work.
Chicago, July 3.-The six rail-
way shop crafts unions which went
on strike Saturday were outlawed by
the United States railway labor
board to-day.
In a formal resolution the board
declared that the unions, by their
actions, forfeited all rights before
the board as railway employees and
that new organizations of shopmen
taking the striking mems jobs should
be formed to represent the shop en-
ployees in disputes before the board.
The board formally declared the
striking shop workers are no longer
employees of any railroad and there
fore without the jurisdiction of the
board or subject to the application of
the transportation act. Although ap-
plying directly to the shopmen at this
time, the board also said that if the
maintenance of way men, signalmen,
OF a finnoru frnp1oT1 and ni1nrC ond
clerks Joined the walkout they would
be relegated to the same position as
the shopmen.
Letters will be addressed by the
board to both the carriers having
men on strike and to the shopmen
remaining at work advising them to
form new associations or organiza-
tions" which would function in be-
half of the employees before the
board and which would "be accorded
the application and benefit of the out
standing wage and rule decision" of
the board
The key to the strike situation was
held by President Cradle,
upon whom hopes were largely bank
ed for aver ing further walkouts.
Claims on the completeness and !
of the shopmen's strike
differed according to the sources.
Union officials asserted that the
walkout was virtually 100 per cent
and would seriously hamper railroad
operations. Railway executives on
The other hand tentatively fixed 80
per cent as the maximum of strik-
ers among the 100000 men in the
shop crafts and declared that over
he weekend it had been impossible
% check up and determine the num-
)er of men who responded to the
trike order.
PLAN FOR OPEN SHOP.
In some rail centers plans were in
for replacing strikers
With workers under open shop ar g
and railroad officials S
that the walkout from the t
hops would not seriously interfere 9
nth transportation.
Passenger traffic since the strike I
egan is reported to be exceptionally o
eavy owing to pre-holiday travel,
)urists and vacationists.
The third day of the shopmen's
.rike arrived with few reports of h
In Chicago, special details I
police were on duty in the shop k
stricts. n
The railroads have declared the c
rike defy to the federal govern Of
ent rather than a transportation il
ar against the carriers, as it came b'
protest against decisions by the re
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