Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-30

strike call had been issued ION all
railroad and Pullman operating depart
ment local lodges of the six shop
crafts
Their ultimatum to the railway
executives rejected, chief executives of
the six shop crafts unions, which have
called a strike for 10 a. m, Saturday.
and the leaders of four other unions
now polling a strike vote. prepared
Thursday night to answer the sum
mons of the United States railroad
labor board to appear in a federal
investigation at 2 p. m. Friday.
Call % Executives
With the union heads were sum-
moned the executives Of % railroads
charged by the employees with illegally
contracting shop work in violation of
the boards orders, one of the three
questions on which the shopmen have
been casting strike ballots for the last
two weeks. Other railway executives
Of the POI Glass . roads in the country
also were asked to be present.
Developments of the strike situation
came in rapid sequence Thursday. In
ternational presidents Of the six shop
unions announced kilograms authoriz-
ing their membership to walk out Sat
urday morning.
The labor board Immediately recog-
nized a threatened interruption of traf-
fic and acting under the authority of
the transportation act, issued cita
ton to the strike leaders to come be
fore it for official inquiry.
Say Settlement Unlikely
The Association of Railway Execu-
tives. meeting here on other matters.
considered and rejected the union pro-
posal of truce pending new negotia-
tions over wages and working condi-
tionS. The executives declared that
a strike would be against the orders of
the labor board and against the United
States government. There is little
likelihood. rail heads said. that any
conference could be arranged TO mend
the differences of the employees and the
roads. and most of the executives de-
parted Thursday night for their homes
Executives of only 16 of the % roads
cited were present at Thursdays meet
ing but they expected to appear before
the board Friday.
The July l $50. 100000 wage cut and
n odification of seven rules, hitting the
shop workers overtime pay a severe
blow. were the two questions involved
in the shopmens' strike vote which are
conditions laid down by the labor
board, according to the carriers posi-
ton. Defiance of those orders by the
roads would be ito recognize your
power and authority as greater than
that Of the government" the execu |
tives' reply to the union ultimatum
said.
Answer Is Unanimous
The reply was directed to p. NJ.
Jewell. president of the Railway En- |
ployers' department of the American
Federation of Labor, of which all 10
unions who threaten walkout are
members. 1t was signed by T. Dewitt
Cuyler. chairman of the executives
association, which unanimously adopted
the answer to the union demands.
Ben W. Hooper, chairman Of the
abor board. who was credited with |
having taken the leadership in avert
ng n threatened railway strike last
October. Thursday night issued
statement declaring that "it is evident
o every student of the situation that
he railway labor organizations have
10 just cause for serious complaint at
he treatment they have received at the
lands of the federal wage tribunals dur
ng the war period and since.