American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-07-20
STRIKE NOTICE


New York N. Y, July Is, 1922
Mr.. 2. E. Calvin, Vice President, u. p.
System, Salt Lake, Utah.
Dear Sir:
For the information of the gem
erai pubic from whom inquiries have
reached me as well as for the assur-
nee OF u shop employees and those
VINO are entering our services every
day and to the end that our former en-
ployes may thoroughly understand our
position, | wish you would commune
cate the sontents of this letter to the
public through the press and to all
Oh our officials so that the public and
each former employee shall be person
ally advised in regard thereto.
Chairman Ben w. Hooper, OF the
US. r. Labor board, July 1, 1922,
issued the following statement:
regardless of any question of any
rlght OF the men to strike the men who
Cak the strikers places are merely
accepting the wages and working CON
6ltlons prescribed by a government
tribunal and are performing a public
service They are not accepting the
wages and working conditions which
am employer is trying to impose. For
TINS reason public sentiment and full
government power will protect the
men who remain in their positions
and new men who may come dn.
subsequently the labor board has
declared that the rules and working
conditions under which the mechanic
al 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 management of this system, or in
event OF failure to reach mutual agree
ment by our employees mot the former
employes) and the management. ex-
parte or jointly referring the disafree-
ment to the U. 8. r R. Labor board
Tor decision. Therefore, since our
FORMER employees left our service of
their own frer will and accord here
by ceasing to be employees of this S
tenn, the public, and those who have
remained loyal to our service and
those who have entered the service
since the strike as well as those who
are entering our employ daily may
rest assured that the anagemen of
this system will use every resource
at its command to keep faith with
them and unqualifiedly pledges itself
to make no settlement of the strike
which will in any manner whatsoever
deter them of their rights of Jobs
which they have gained in accordance
with shop crafts agreement and the
declaration of the labor board.
The only way that any one of our
former employees may enter II SER
vice as a new employee and oppor-
tunity to thus enter the service is
growing less day by day owing to the
fact that u forces are rapidly in
creasing.
The public will keep in mind the
fact that this strike lis not against the
railroad system but that it is against
the decision of an agency of u gov
resolves itseslf into tn QUESTION whethe
eminent, therefore the strike simply
resolves itself into the question
whether the orderly processes of law
shall prevail or the arbitrary action
Of a very small minority. To that
question there can be but one answer
we are a law abiding people. The
orderly processes of the law shall pre-
vail. 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 al