Evening star., 1922-07-01
Nationwide Reports
Indicate General
Response to Call.
MAINTENANCE MEN
DELAY UNTIL JULY 3
Halt Walkout Pending
Efforts to Obtain
Settlement,
BY the Associated Press.

| CHICAGO. July 1-Thousands Of
railway shopmen dropped their tooIs
today to join the nationwide call is.
| sued by the international presidents
of the six shopcrafts unions. Early
reports indicated that shop mechanic,
and their helpers from the New Eng.
| land roads to the western transcon.
tnental lines were generally joining
the walk-out, with about $4,000 al.
ready reported to have actually quit
! work at midday
| While there was no way of com.
! pllinS accurate figures which might
be all-inclusive, dispatches from
/ points scattered from Boston ia
| Kansas City showed that the strike
had taken effect in shops on nearly
! all the important roads of the east
and middle west.
| Shopmen in the western statet
/ We're expected to join the secession.
1st movement as the zero hour. II
! O'Clock, arrived in their territories
| The strike call sanctioning black.
! smiths. boilermakers, sheet metal
| workers, electrical workers. ma
| chanlsts and carmen to stop work
/ at 10 am, local time. today
! was issued Thursday night afteI
! a ballot by the 100000 shop worker,
! had shown, according to union off.
! clals, sc per cent in favor of striking
/ Not more than $4,000 mechanics
| and helpers were actually at work
| however. according to latest govern.
| ment figures, although the unions
! total membership was allowed IL
! vote, many shopmen being temporar
| lily laid off.
! One-Fourth at Chicago.
Approximately 100000 shopmen-
one-fourth of the entire number-ars
and environs.
B.. M> Jewell. head of the railway
| employees department of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, who. with
officials of the various shop crafts
defied summons to appear before the
| United States Labor Board yesterday.
a last effort to avoid the strike. sue.
during the night after the board is
sued a writ calling upon him to ap-
| pear at the close of yesterdays con-
/ ference. Efforts to locate him were
! fruitless until after midnight. when
| he was found at a hotel where he
| had met with his chairmen and con-
| sidered hundreds of kilograms re-
| garding the strike. He declined Ia
f, comment on the situation.
! In his ultimatum Jewell told rail
! executives that the only avenue ta
peace was for the railroads to ignore
/! the decision of the Labor Board
slashing $4,000 900 from the wage,
| of shopmen today and to restore rules
governing overtime pay and working
| conditions, along with an agreement
to discontinue the system by which
several roads farmed out work to
contra ctors.
"BlOOd on Jewelrs Head
Declaring that the blood was on
JEWELS own head" Ben w. Hooper,
| chairman of the Labor Board, who led
| the way to a peaceful settlement OF
the threatened strike of trainmen last
| October. said JewelIs belated appear
ance under subpoena could not al
i such a late hour result in any re-
! versal of the strike order in time ta
prevent a suspension of work.
Railway executives who answered
the boards summons and appeared al
! yesterdays conference virtually re.
| moved one of the strike issues when
one by one. many of them whos(
Iroads had been following the practice
| announced that they would abolish
the contract system in their shops
The board in several cases brought
by employees against the roads ruled
| that the carriers were violating pro-
! visions of the transportation act in
| farming out work to contractors.
| Railroad officials declared that the
| public would scarcely be aware OF
! the walkout except through reading
tinue uninterrupted. they asserted
and in some centers it was indicated
that shops would be operated on ar
open shop basis.
ShOpcrafts Act Alone.
Definite word from headquarters Of
the maintenance of way employees al
Detroit early today that the track
| workers would remain at work unfit
I'll
left the shops crafts alone in the
| walkout today.
In pledging itself to abolish tn.
contract system. the New York Cen
| trail made its agreement. only as q
means of avoiding strike. Counsel
for the road asserted that the New
York Central Lines consider the prac.
tice legal
The following table. prepared frou
information supplied by the feder-
ated shopcrafts, indicates the mum
ber of men in each craft scheduled
to go on strike at 10 o'clock today
International Association of Ma.
chinists, 10000: International Broth
erhood of Boiler Makers. Iron Ship
builders and Helpers of America
$4,000: Amalgamated Sheet Metal
| Workers International Alliance. H..
900: International Brotherhood oi
Blacks smith, Drop Forgers and Help
ers of America, 10000: Internationa
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
10000: Brotherhood of Railway Car
men of America, 100000; repairmen
not included in above, 10000, ap.
prentices, 10000.
Some Hope Left.
Although eleventh hour efforts BY
the Railroad Labor Board to prevent
shopmen's strike apparently hat
failed. some hope of accomplishment
toward forestalling strikes of othel
classes of railway workers was seer
as a result of yesterdays conference
Three of the ten union chiefs whit
were summoned before the board put
in their appearances when the meet
ing convened. They were:
E. F. Cradle, president of thI
maintenance -of-way employees: e. II
! Fitzgerald of the railway clerks ant
freight handlers, and D. w. Helt oi
. the signal men.
Timothy Healy, head of the oiler,
and stationary engineers. who refused
to attend the meeting until served
| with a subpoena, issued at the sams
time the Jewell writ was ordered
said that 5000 of the $4,000 members
Of his organization were voting STRIKE
ballots returnable July 10. Mr.
; Cradle, 1t was pointed out. might as,
sumo the same role in the presen,
situation that was played by w. q
Lee. president of the Brotherhood oI
| Railroad Ira ainmen when n genera