The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-08-11
TRAINMEN'S CHIEF
KEEPS HIS POWER
Lee viii Not Delegate Strike
Authority to Committees.
COMPLAINTS STILL FLOW IN
Local Brotherhood Leaders Object 10
Defective Rail Equipment and Aoe'
sive Armed Guards.

cleveland. Aug ll.-W. q. Lee, pres
dent of the Brotherhood OF Raiifoau
Trainmen. denied reports thar ne mas
telegruphed general cnairmen OF ms
ORGANIZATION not TO strike because Oh
tllpged abuses and insults TO tralrneh
W armed guards and defective equip
uenI on railroads. Lee gave out the
following statement:
The following telegraphic instfur-
tons have been sent To General Chaif-
nen +. S. Jackson, Illinois central
railroad: August lexis, Chicago and
Northwestern J. A. Coleman, Chicago,
Rock island and Pacific railroad; W IL
tam Godfrey and all general commit
lees forwarding complaints to me tha'
!ur membership is in danger on their
rouds as a resulr of armed guards OF
defective locomotives and equipment
IF employment on your line Is un
bearable on account OF conditions due
10 shopmen's strike, your general COM
llittee should be convened, and II a
majority of such committee votes ID
favor of strike, authority Of the un-
,!ersigned, as provided for in general
lule No 9 of the constitution and
general rules of the brotherhood, will
lie given.
II will not pass such authority 10
lie individual members of the broth
any line.
Local brotherhood chiefs continued
10 receive reports from their mem
bers in many parts OF the country
complaining of working conditions In
railroad shops and yards, both as TO
armed guards and defective equipment.
d. B. Robertson, president of the
brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Engineers, said he received tele-
cram from Chicago complaining OF
conditions on the Rock Island railroad.
i'iremen and enginemen protested
against running into the Joliet zone,
where 1900 brotherhood members quit
| work as a protest against the alleged
abuses and insults of armed guards
Robertson instructed his representa-
| live in Chicago TO take the matter up
with the Rock Island Railroad com
pany officials in an effort to settle the
matter, and if unable to reach an
agreement the men would not be re-
quifed Or requested TO operate in thai
section.
Telegrams were also received, Rob
ertson said, from secretaries of locals
complaining of working conditions at
Louisville and Howell, Ind, both as to
guards and working equipment.
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
officials received a dozen complaints
from different parts Of the country
| regarding guards and equipment.
| Among them were kilograms from
| Nashville, referring to conditions on
| the Nashville, Chattanooga and st.
| Louis railroad and the Tennessee Cen
tral railroad; Boone, Ia, on the Chi
cago and Northwestern Eldon, Mo,
| on the Rock Island lines, and ST. Louis.
| on the Missouri PACIFIC.
| Robertson has also received COM
! plants from his members regarding
| working conditions on the Illinois Cen
tral. saying that trains operated by
members had been attacked by coal
| strike sympathiZers along the line
| from the Kentucky mines to Chicago.
| A reply was sent stating that If their
| lives were endangered they should not
| continue to work.