Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-08-25
SHOP CRAFTS STAND FIRM
An Enthusiastic Meeting at Headquar-
ters Monday Evening

Hundreds of B. & 0. shopmen
crowded the hall when President Jas
P. Wolfe called the Federated Shop
Crafts to order Monday evening. The
general business was quickly dis
patched, and G.. N. Fullerton of Wash
ington, Indiana, was introduced.
Previous to Mr.. Fullerton's talk
Pres. Wolfe and Frank Kane spoke
encouragingly of the outlook for a
speedy and early settlement of the
strike, and urged the men to stand
firm and steadfast, assuring them
that complete victory was certain.
Emphasis was laid upon the necessity
of orderly conduct and not giving
their adversaries an opportunity to
invoke the aid Of the Federal court
by any violation of the injunction now
in force.
Mr.. Fullerton gave comprehensive
review of the outlook, complimented
the men upon standing shoulder to
shoulder during the past eight weeks,
and assured them that they were ap-
preaching the end with a better and
firmer organization than at the be-
ginning of the battle. The B. & 0.
crafts, all along the line, are still 100
per cent organized, with no desertions
from the ranks; 1900 men are out,
and only about 400 are working, and
662s per cent of the foremen were out
with the boys.
He warned his hearers that no set
tlement of the conflict has been
reached, and that nobody should re-
turn to work until officially notified
bv his organization to do so, and ap-
pealed to the men to keep up the fight
until they have clinched their victory.
President Hardin's message to con-
gress has not changed the situation.
The chiefs of the 16 railroad labor
organizations have observed the "cat
and mouse" tactics of the administra-
ton, and the arrogant attitude of the
railroad managers and the Wall street
bankers, headed by j. P. Morgan, too
long to become optimistic over the
consent Of the managers to talk with
the chiefs of the transportation
brotherhods.
Far more significant of the ap-
proach of peace, they feel, is the con-
fession by Harding and the interstate
commerce commission that the rolling
stock on many of the most important
railroad lines is breaking down. The
shopmen know that the day of sur
render is steadily approaching. Wall
street and its railroad dictatorship
have been whipped by the organized
railwaymen.
The strike is won, and all that is
now necessary is for the railroad en-
ployes to do as they have all during
the strike-comply with the laws, re-
frain from violence, not to associate
with the emissaries of the enemies
whose purpose it is to incite violence,
but by every legal and proper act
vigorously continue the strike, pay
ing no attention to newspaper reports
or other rumors that the strike is to
be or has been settled.
From beginning of the present
strike and for years before we have
been contending that the great fnan
cial interests of the nation are the
real managers of the railroads. 1t
has been charged and proven, that
these comparatively few bankers
forced conditions that made a strike
unavoidable, actuated as they are by
a desire to destroy labor organiza-
tions and establish more firmly an
industrial autocracy in this nation.
Evidence has been adduced prov
ing that the presidents original peace
proposal was not repudiated by the
railroad executives, but was repudia-
ted by the bankers who dominate
them in every official act. The bank
ers did not want peace. They spurned
the plea of the president and sent Mr..
Hoover along about his business,
which was to make a perfunctory
appeal to the railroad executives that
already had been adversely received
by the real masters of transportation
Mr.. Fullerton closed by calling at
tention to the fact that organization
was growing. Farmers and fruit
growers all over the country were be-
coming tired of being trimmed, and
were getting together for mutual
protection, and that the day was COM
ing when the people will be able to
tell our law makers this is the thing
we want done, and they will do it;
when we will have in this country a
democratic organization by the people