The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-03
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JACK II SILvIS
,1el Committee Claims TIKI
TetaI Result u Railroad Car
n mss Ansns ldle Hen.

~ publicity committee Of the
vis federated shop crafts today
80 the following statement to
- newspapers:
Yesterday a picnic was enjoyed
~ striking shopmen and their
si,les at the Silvis city park In
Sstion Of the failure Of the Of
Mss,s Of the Rock Island Lines to
.st our ranks by means Of the
sSs~ gent out from President Cor
s's office under date Of Sept Is,
.s1 b the propaganda circulated
~ IA local officials Of the rail-
~ Lunch donated by sympa-
Hi1dnr merchants was enjoyed
- and evening. Games and
- we're also a part Of the pro-
-. prizes going to the winners.
general good time was enjoyed
4, Iii Of the many mon and their
antilles who attended.
sFor the past two weeks every
I1liort has been resorted to by the
,.flroad's officials to break the
ssIM ranks of the striking en-
,loyes, with the hopes Of getting
ihem to prove disloyal to them
lives and their cause by desert
81 their organizations and going
hck into the shops. Local Off
AIS have made house to house
nnyas of the strikers homes, talk
/ M TO the mems wives and moth
n, making promising and allur-
i M offers that would tend to break
/ he morale of the men and be the
mans OF getting them back to
DER Jobs in the shops under the
trms dictated by the railroad and
| hereby breaking the effective
arike now on this railroad. The
/ ptsl result OF these methods used
Il flds last campaign to break the
tr1ke was one machinist returned
% work at Silvis. 1t has also been
seued to prove to the striking
ihepmen that our, strike for JUS
tite and recognition as union men
ssTery effective in spite OF state
ments to the contrary by the rail-
road officials, and proved to them
beyond doubt to just what lengths
the railroad officials would go in
order to get them to return to
work so that the railroad might be
able to again operate successfully,
Claim Solid Ranks.
This campaign has just been one
more effort on the part of the
failroad to bring about a partial OF
complete break in the ranks of the
striking employees in an effort tc
save the railroad from breakdown
and its officials from acknowledge
ment of failure to break the strike
as they promised the president Of
this road they could so easily dc
il lime was granted them. Time
has been granted them and the
STRIKE is now as far from broken
as it was on the first day. 1t has
| cost the employees dearly to wage
this fight, but it has also cost the
nilroad many thousands of dol.
lars more than it has cost the en-
ployes. 1t will be readily admit
ted that it is very expensive
Proposition to feed these sO-called
replacement men and then get NJ
results from their employment
However, all this can be cleared uI
at any time the railroad is salts
| fed that it can not make slaves o.
their employees. Why not give the
striking shopmen, who are citizens
Of this community. the benefit OF
board and lodging as they now give
these replacement men? Or give
W the equivalent thereof and lei
II wll-e like citizens should live. As
ha been said before. we will con.
tnue on strike until conditions
fcrre a just and fair settlement anG
no ruse on the part of this railroad
viii cause us to break ranks until
such settlement is reached"
BY Order of the Federated Com
mittee:
+. d. MILLER, President,