Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-07-06

peace in the rail strike situation came
in the announcement from Detroit
that action on the proposed strike or
100000 maintenance of way men had
been postponed. Officials OF the
maintenance mems unions left Detroit
for a conference with members of the
United States railway labor board.
Chicago, July 3-The walkout of
100000 railway shopmen assumed an
even more menacing aspect as the
strike threatened to spread to 100000
additional rail workers in the main
tenance of way and clerical depart
ments.
Way Mems Leaders Confer.
e. T. Cradle, grand president of the
Brotherhood Of Maintenance Of Way
Men, and e. H. Fitzgerald, grand
president of the Brotherhood of Rail
way and Steamship Clerks, were
closeted with Mr.. Jewell in a confer
ence.
None of the labor leaders would
make a statement after their confer
ence.
The railway executives already
have laid plans for coping with any
contingency that may arise in con-
| tinuing operations in the railway
| shops. Each of the roads will issue
bulletins warning employees that if
| they do not return to work they will
be deprived Of seniority and pension
rights.
Differ as to Number Out.
Union and railroad officials dis
agreed as to the actual percentage of
| men who walked out in protest
against the $6O,OOO,OOO wage cut or
dered by the United States railroad
board. B. NJ Jewell, head of the
striking crafts organization, said the
strike was 100 per cent effective. Rail-
road figures showed that in some
places all the men walked out, in 9TH
ers Is to 80 per cent, and in many
places only 40 to 80 per cent.
Little Disorder Reported.
"The strike is on and the trains are
! running as usual" This was the word
received from all parts of the coun-
try. There was little disorder re-
ported.
The shopmens attitude was made
clear by Mr.. Jewell. -.
"As far as we are concerned" said
JEWELS statement, ''the United States
railroad labor board no longer has
Jurisdiction over our affairs. Our men
are not now working for any rail-
roads,"
Hooper Warns Jewell.
And in a reply that obviously was
intended as an official prophecy
Chairman Hooper said:
"The position Mr.. Jewell Is now
taking to the effect that the employees
| whom he represents are no longer I'M
der the Jurisdiction of the United
| States railroad labor board Or the
transportation act and, consequently,
! that they are not in position to
avail themselves of the manifold pro-
| lection that the board has given his
organization and its members during
the last two years, is a position that
may rise to haunt Rhfm later
The first definite intimation that
federal troops might be called to
protect workers filling the jobs Of
| strikers also came from Chairman
| Hooper when he contended in the
| following statement that such work
ers should not be regarded as "scabs."
"There is one new thought in con-
nection with this strike that should
be impressed upon everybody con-
| cerned.
1.-THE man who takes the work that
| has been abandoned by striker al
ways has been called scab or a
strikebreaker, terms to which much
| approbrium attaches in some quarters.
I'm the present case the men who
assume the work abandoned by the
striking railway employees cannot be
Justly reproached with the epithets
mentioned.
"Not Customary Case"
'sThis is not the customary case
In which the employer and employees
have a controversy about rules or
wages and each tries to impose his
views on the other
Tin this case the controversy is
not, as In the former sense, between
the carriers and their employers. The
| people, by act of congress approved
by President Wilson, established a
| government tribunal charged with the
| duty of and vested with the power to
fix rules and wages for railway en-
ployees.
Disputes as to rules and wages
were submitted and the evidence and
arguments fully presented on both
sides. Decisions Of these disputes
/ were handed down by the United
4 States railway labor board 1t Is these