The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-07-05
Ultimatum Issued By the
Florida East Coast Is
To Effect That Work.
ers In Shops Must Re-
port for Duty By Next
Monday Or Stay Out

AVAOIlOdy Or Otdy OuC
Chicago, July 5.-(By the Associ-
ated Press)-Striking railroad shop.
men are reported to be drifting back
to work today in groups of uncertain
numbers. b. NJ. Jewel head of the
shopmen's union reiterated the union
assertion that the strike is one hun
dred per cent effective at all points
reporting. Maintenance of way men,
despite the decision of their executive
council last night to postpone strike
action temporarily. are reported to
be joining the walkout Freight
handlers. clerks, stationary fremen
and oilers have Joined the ranks of
the shopmen at various points al
though fully as many shops reported
men returning to work today.
EAST COATS'S ULTIMATUM
st. Augustine. July 5.-Vice Presi-
dent Beckwith of the Florida East
Coast Railway, in an ultimatum to
striking shopmen today, said all not
at work by a. IN. July 10 will be
considered permanently out of the
service of the company.
Norfolk, Va, July 5-The Norfolk
Southern Railway today announced
the calculation of three passenger
trains because of the shipments
strike made it necessary to conserve
motive power.
Negroes to Clean Cars
Parkersburg. w. Va. July 5-About
100 negroes have arrived here from
the south and east and will be used
as car cleaners in the Baltimore and
Ohio yards here, it was said today.
The negroes are in the High shops,
their camp being surrounded by
guards. Union officials here said they
knew the men had been brought in
but declined to comment regarding
their importation.
Working Under Protest
Chicago, July 5.-(By the Associ-
ated Press Railway shopmen who
walked off their jobs last Saturday.
played lone hand in the rail strike
today. Fears, that lother workmen
would join the shopmen were virtu-
ally dispelled. The lrst wide rift in
railroad strike clouds passed yester-
day when maintenance of way en-
ployes. who include track workers
and other common labor. definitely
abandoned the idea of walking out
at this time. Credit for averting a
rail strike which threatened to be-
come general among all classes of
railway labor except the Big Four"
brotherhoOds and the telegraphers
was generally conceded to Ben w.
Hooper. chairman of the United
States Railway Labor oBrad; w. l..
McMenimen of the labor board and
Z. F. Cradle, president of the main
tenance men.
Maintenance men will stay on the
lob under protest against the S60.-
600 900 cut in their wages, pending
negotiations for a readiustment of
wage scales upon appeals by the en-
ployes.
With their common labor problem
out of the way. railroad officials
throughout the country were waiting
today for the first definite disclosure
of the shOpmen's strike Over sun
day and yesterdays holiday. rail Of
ficials said it was impossible to de-
termine how many members of tbs
sin shop crafts had actually re-
sponded to Saturdays strike order.
When the whistles blew this morn.
ING tHe TdllTOduS DeSan an inventory
of their shop workers
Union officials predicted that other
classes of railway luDor would be
come innoculated by the shopmen's
strike and that the effect of the walk
out would begin to show on trans
portation soon.
Railway clerks and station en-
ployes. some of whm piled a strike
vte recently, have, in many instances.
made separae agreements with their
roads and any strikes by these classe
would. 1t is believed be called only on
individual roads.
The railroads also waited today foi
the effect of the message of Timothy
Healy, president of the Stationary
Firemen and Oilers. who told the
5000 members of his organization
that they had "a perfect right" to
strike if they wished in view of the
railroad situation.
Signalmen were still "on the fence"
but their president, D. w. Helt, has
usually followed the lead of the main
tenance unions whose withdrawal
from the strike was believed in rail-
road circles to indicate that the
signalmen would remain at work.
Reports of violence or disorders in
connection with the strike were few
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