Evening star., 1922-07-03
SIX STRIKING RAIL
UNIONS 0UTLAWED
BY LABOR BOARD
Course of 450,000 Track
men to Be Decided Today.
May Walk Out.
SHOP CRAFTSMEN LOSE
ALL RIGHTS UNDER RULE
Others Who May Quit Face Same
Punishment-Men on Job
Urged to Organize.

Punlshment-Men on Job
Urged to Organize.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 3-AssertfnE
that "nobody will starve and mo-
body will freexe,' even though the ,
strike of shop crafts unions should
continue to October, the season Of
heaviest trn6lc, officials of the
American Association Of Railway
Executives today announced they
would maintain "hands-oM" poll
icy, leaving each rond to extricate
itself from the strike.
CHICAGO, July 3.-The six railway
shop crafts unions which went on
strike Saturday were outlawed by the
United States Railroad Labor Board to-
day,
In formal resolution the board
declared that the unions. by their ac-
tion. forfeited all rights before the
board as railway employees
The board requested employees re-
naming In the service and the car
riers to take steps Immediately to form
new organizations fpr the purposes of
representing the shopmen before the
board.
The resolution formally declared that
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, signal men,
stationary firemen and oilers and
clerks Joined the walkout they would
pe reIesated to the same position as
Letters will be addressed by the
board to both the carriers having
men on strike and to the shopmen re-
manning at work. advising them to
FORM tfaIa. new associations or organiza-
half of the employees before the board
ana which would "be accorded the
application and benefit Of the out
standing wage AID rule decisions" Of
Backs Heoper Stand.
The boards pronouncement formaf-
ly seconded the statement Of Chair
man Ben w. Hooper. Saturday, that
men remaining on the job should not
be called "scabs" or be considered as
"strikebreakers" The resolution said
such men were within their rights"
and have the moral as well as the
legal right to engage in such service
OF the American public to avoid in
corruption Of indispensable railway
transportation" Such men are en-.
titled. the resolution added, to "the
protection OF every department and
national" N0
Two days of the strike of shops
craftsmen has failed. according to re-
ports. to. interfere. seriously. with
sransportat1on- or to produce a def
nlte statement of the number of men
out. Claims on the completeness Of
the strike differed according to the
sources. Union officials asserted that
the walkout was virtually 100 per
cent ana would seriously hamper rail-
road operations. Railway executives
tentatively fixed 80 per cent as the
maximum number out,
IN some rail centers plans were in
preparation for replacing strikers with
workers under open-shop arrangements
ana the New York Central railroad in
serted quarter-page advertisements in
Chicago newspapers.
Heavy Passenger Tramc.
Passenger traffic since the strike be-
gan IL reported by the roads to have
been exceptionally heavy, owing to pre-
holiday travel. tourists and vacation
lists.
Officials of the mechanical denar.-
ment Of the Missouri. Kansas and Texas
railway. at Parsons, Kan, yesterday,
look on their coats and went to work
IN the roundhouse. Motive power SUI
perintendents and mechanical depart
ment heads worked as repairers under
direction Of the shop foremen.
Omciais and clerks also took places
or striking shopmen In the st. Louis dis
trict: II was reported there late last
night that striking Pennsylvania shop
mon had asked to be reinstated. fear
Ing they would lose seniority and PEN
SION rights. but the report could not
be verified.
Advices of the first impairment Of
train service came from Corbin. KY.
where 1t was said lack of motive
equipment has forestalled the move
ment OF 1900 cars Of coal. At least
one passenger train was delayed for
more than an hour, tt was learned.
May Abandon Shops.
shopmen Of the Michigan Central,
have been given until July Is to re.
turn, according to notice posted by
the company. Unless the men come
back, General Manager Shearer Of De-
road probably will close down per-
manentiy large part Of the shops
in Jackson and have the work done
In eastern shops. This would leave
800 or more local shopmen without
employment and most of them are
residents of the city and home oWners.
At Omaha union leaders claimed
that more than 81 per cent of Shop
mon employed by the Union Pacific
had Joined the strike. while company
ofncials said that about 75 per cent Of
their shopmen had walked out. Union
claims at other Nebraska points and
at Sioux City, iowa, were similar as to
the number Of men joining the strike.
Two thousand shopmen from Lin
coin and Havelock, Neb., gathered ct
the latter place for q mass meeting
yesterday, were cautioned by leaders
to refrain from violence or disorder
in the strike.
The men were said to have come
from Chicago.
CANVASS TRACK VOTE.
100000 Men May Join Strike II