Bisbee daily review., 1922-08-15
B R ] THERHOODS'
 ASSET N NUT BASED IN ACT,
 SAYS 0F FF|C|AL
Santa Fe Official Denounces Actions as Lawless, Inhuman
 Violation of Contract
ORDER MEN TO RETURN
Irainmens' Leader Acts on Complaint; Take Step to
 Enforce Constitution

CHICAGO, Aug. 14.-A demand that the chiefs of the Big Four" brother hoods take. immediate steps to i'm mediately end what he denounced as the lawless and inhuman violation of their contracts by the train service crews of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railway, was made public tonight by A. G. Wells, vice presi dent of the road
 In telegrams addressed to Warren s. Stone, head of the engineers, D. B. Robertson, of the firemen, w. c. Lee, of the trainmen, and L. E. Shep pard, of the conductors, he said that If they could not get their men back to work or fill their places, ''the only alternative left the company in it's duty to the public was to engage the services of men to fill the places of the men on strike"
 After noting the threatened spread of the Sympathetic and illegal strike of the brotherhood members tomorrow in northern California, the message continued:
 At o'clock last night, our super intendent at Winslow, Ariz., was handed the following:
 Effective D. m. August 18th. owing to the general unsafe condi- tlons of equipment and improper brake inspection of tranis, of which we have sufficient individual protests on file and copies sent to our gen. eral ehairmen, we deem it necessary to withdraw our services from the A. T. & S. F. railway at this point until equipment is placed in a safe condition and competent men placed on inspection of trains satisfactory to the following general grievance committee of the Coast lines, B. of L. F. & E., B. of L. E., B. of R. C., and B. of R. T., and all men re- turned to work with full seniority rights
 Tt will be noted that in this ulti- matum no reference is made to the objection to guards which was the main cause of complaint in the Needles environment, but new ele- ment in introduced, that of compe- tent men to be employed for inspec- tion of trains which has no more foundation in fact, than the, claim of
 
 called to language of the ultimatum delivered at Winslow and above quoted It stipulates that certain conditions must be met satisfactorily to the general grievance committee of the Big Four This warrants the deduction that the committee at Winslow is acting under the direc- tion of the general chairman and certainly constitutes an unwarranted and sympathetic strike, approved by the four organizations in fragrant violation of your constituents obliga- tions under the existing agreements between this company and it's train and engine service employees. I ask you each to declare whether you will imemdiately order and require com pliance with your order that they shall return to work and perform their accustomed duties, advising them that failure to comply will re- suit in your cooperating with the company to supply men to take the places which they have vacated, or shall the company proceed at once to accept the only alternative left it in its duty to the public and en- gage services of men to fill the places of those on strike? 1 desire an explicit answer on the point from
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