Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer., 1922-07-05
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MEN OUT 0FPLANT:
GUARDS LOCKED UP
Slater, Mo-, July 5-Striking shopmen here
have seized the Chicago & Alton shops driven out
non-union men broug ght in to work in the shops

and are holding t h e
property this afternoon.
Eighteen men were
driven from te shops today Yester-
day twenty-five were driven out.
The sheriff is on his way here from
Marshall, Mo. the county seat.
Alton officials said that three
guards employed by the railroad at
the shops had been arrested by local
authorities and placed in Jail and that
the.r property was without protec-
tion.
Capture" Without Violence.
officials today said three reports
from Slater, Mo, were that all the
non-union men who had left the shops
there left peacefully and that there
was no violence. About forty men
were employed to take the places Of
the strikers. The shops normally
! employ 100 men.
OBJECTIONS Reported.
Chicago July 5.-Striking railway
shopmen were reported drifting back
to work today in groups of uncertain
size Today was considered the turn
ing point in the strike of the 350,0O0
to 600 shopmen. Altho respond
| ing generously to the call of ast Satur-
day railway officials said many de-
| fections were due to desire on the
part of the men to take holiday
over the Fourth of July
Local union reports to the office OF
B. Nj. Jewell. head of the shopmen
reiterated the union assertion that
the strike was 100 per cent effective
at all points reporting. Maintenance
of way men, despite the decision of
that unions executive council here
last night to postpone strike action
were joining the walk out at several
points.
Freight handlers, clerks and sta
tionary firemen and oilers joined the
deserving ranks of shopmen at vari-
Gus points Altho fully as many
shops reported that men were report
ing to work today. Small disorders
were reported from several points
mostly in the south.
Shopmen Play Lone Hand.
Chicago, July 5.-(By the A, PD-
Railway shopmen who walked off
their jobs last Saturday played a lone
hand in the rail strike today. Fears
that other unions would join the
striking shOpmen were virtually dis
PEELED.
The first wide rift in railroad strike
.I y-rrtnpJar yuhp-l
maintenance Of way employees, who
include track workers and other COM
mon labor, abandoned the idea of
walkout at this time.
Credit for averting rail strike
which threatened to become general
among all classes of railway labor eX-
cept the big four brotherhOods and
telegraphers, was generally conceded
to Ben w. Hooper chairman of the
United States railroad labor board;
w. d. MCMenimen, labor member of
the board, and +. F. Cradle, president
of the maintenance men, the big
three" in yesterdays conference.
As a result of the holiday confer
ence nearly 400, 1000 maintenance of
way men who for a week hOvered on
the verge OF a strike after voting over
whelmngly in favor of a walkOut will
remain at work.
Maintenance Men TO Stick.
Maintenance men will stay on the
Job under protest" against the $50,
10000 cut in their wages pending ne
gotiatiOns for a readjustment of wage
scales on an appeal by the employees.
With their common labor problem
out of the way, railroad officials
throughout the country were waiting
today for the first definite evidence of
the effect of the shopmen's strike.
over Sunday and yesterdays holiday
railroad officials said it was impos.
sible to determine how many EN-
ployes of the six shop crafts had actd
ally responded to Saturdays strike
order. When the whistles blew this
morning the railroads began an in
yentory of their shop workers.
Threaten Strikers.
In many rail centers strikers were
notified that they would forfeit all
rights and consideration for future
employment If they failed to return tp
their jobs Immediately. Many roads
were accepting new men for work in
the shops.
Officials of the shop crafts said
their strike was virtually 100 per cent
effective and encouraging from their
viewpoint VI. B. Jewell. head of the
railway employees department of the
American Federation of Labor and
nominal head OF the shop crafts. who
Yesterday retaliated to the statement
of Chairman Hooper branding shop
men as outlaws" by "outlawing' the
labor board. intimated that he would
have something mere to say on the
situation following meeting of his
executive council today
Union officials predicted that other
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