The labor world., 1922-08-19
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HARDING PLAYS
GAME ROADS
Declare He Has Shifted Posi-
:tIon on Seniority Issue.
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suggested: by Mr.. Harding for a set
tlement.
ION Monday. July 81, Mr.. T. De-
Witt Cuyler called a meeting of the
standing committee of the Associa-
tion Of Railway Executives. Through
this committee Mr.. Cuyler is expect
ed to direct railroad policy for the
bankers. When the bankers found
that Mr.. Cuyler had been won over
by the president they issued instruc-
tions to the standing committee to
repudiate the peace plan. This was
done the following day. But the re-
pudiation was not by the railroads
but by the bankers.
Blocking All Peace Moves.
while the president was making
his preliminary peace moves the
eastern bankers were laying plans to
frustrate a settlement. On July 27.
John G. Walber, secretary Of the
bureau Of information of the East
ern Association of Railway Execu-
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he said. the roads will not bulge
in the matter of wages. rules, and
any board of national adjustment
and continued:
| This latter board and the bogey
of seniority are both issues created
since the strike and were never un-
der consideration by the shop crafts
when the strike votes were cast
! 1T is reasonable to assume that
Mr.. Walber, when he made this
statement, had no knowled dge of a
telegram that the National Indus
trial Council, an organization of en-
ployes under the tutelage of the New
York financial group, was sending
broadcast under date of July 25
That telegram was as follows:
"'New York, July 25, 1922.
Employers Association:
| 1.-The railway strike will be won
If organized industry acts Immediate
ly and effectively. Situation as much
a. test of our ability as of railway
executives. Immediate. needs are,
first. volume expression associations
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president sustaining position rail-
roads on seniority question and urg-
ing administration support; second,
immediate conference with your To-
cal railway officials for purpose as
slsting them to man shops; third;
pressure on presidents roads your
TERRITORY to stand firm on position
to date. We speak advisedly. Above
suggested action T.. imperative and
permit no delay: Urgently request
wire reply. ,~ aaus
Part ofGC Conspiracy.
National Industrial Council
This telegram completely and
overwhelmingly confirms our re-
peated charge that the drive being
made against railroad workers is but
a part of the conspiracy to- destroy
organized labor.
THE National Industrial Council
is an employers organization. It was
formed for the specific purpose of
waging warfare against labor unions.
Its frank confession that the situa-
tlon as 1t affects the railroads is as
much test Of our ability as of rail-
way executives indicates the scope
and purpose of the railroad strike.
| THE request to bring volume ex-
preston upon the president sustain
ing the railroads is bearing fruit.
The White House has been literally
bombarded by employers and trade
organizations and such individuals
as are under their influence and di-
rection.
But this volume expression does
not represent the public interests nor
present the actual facts of the rail-
road situation. 1t is manufactured
propaganda, wholly disregarding the
welfare of the public while setting
forth the selfish demands of en-
ployers who are out to make the
workers eat out of their hands,
Object of Propaganda.
"The purpose of this concerted
and cynical drive against the White
House is to establish the conviction
there that the public is with the
railroads, and that they should be
LETT alone and fre, to carry through
their part of the conspiracy.
The public as we'll as the presi-
dent should be apprised of what is
being done. They should know the
measures adopted. by the banking
interests to obscure the real issues
involved in this struggle and prevent
a fair and permanent peace.
"The interests that are telling the
president to keep hands off repre-
| sent an infinitesimal fraction OF the
whole people. The views that are
being sent to the White House are
not the honest views of the senders
but the stereotyped suggestions of
the National Industrial Council and
allied organizations. 5