The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1922-08-09
$4,000 SAY
NO TO PLAN
Of HARDING
Shop Craft Workers Back
Jewell In Rejection of Pro-
posal to Submit Seniority
Issue to Labor Board.
RAIL HEADS ARE FLAYED
fBy Associated PresS)

fBy Associated PresS)
NEW YORK, Aug 9-Twenty-five
thousand railroad shopcraft workers,
through David Williams. secretary OF
the eastern strike committee, today
sent a telegram to B. NJ. Jewell at
Washington. putting themselves on
record as refusing to accept President
Harding's proposal for submitting the
seniority question to the railroad la
Dor board
The telegram read "Tn behalf Of
$4,000 striking railway shopmen in the
New York district, we endorse your
stand in refusing to accept the COM
promise proposition of President Hard
ing.
Located in a district exposed 10
the poison gas attack, as represented
by the lying propaganda of the rail-
way executives, our members have
stood the attack without faltering and
the morale of the strikers is perfect
Many of the strikers are ex-serv
ice men who fought under the stars
and stripes in the war for democracy.
These men have witnessed our So
called American railway executives
hire Chinese and Hindu labor TO try
to break the strike, and under no cir
cumstances will these former soldiers
allow these foreign, unskilled work
men to be considered as favored en-
ployes in order to crafty the auto
cratic desires of the American railway
kaisers for a condition of industrial
slavery for rail employees"
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-Leaders of
the striking railroad shopcraftsmen in
the city occupied themselves today
with preparations for the general meet
ing of railroad union officials they ex-
pected to hold Friday and with the
issuance of statements declaring rail-
road equipment to be in a dangerously
deteriorated condition.
3. NJ. Jewell, chairman of the strike
group, received notice from Warren +.
Stone, chief of the engineers brother
hood, that all of the other brotherhood
chiefs would accept the invitation for
conference.
T. H. Davis, chairman of the general
shopcraft committee of the Pennsyl-
lvania, headed delegation represent
/ ing men at work which called at the
/ White House and asked President
/ Harding not TO countenance any strike
settlement, which would injure the
| seniority status of men who remained
/ in service in spite of the strike.
! 65 Per Cent on Job
! About 65 per cent of the Pennsyl-
vania shop employees, Mr.. Davis assert
ed, stayed on the job, and great many
Of the original strikers had returned.
I While awaiting meeting with their
own associates in the direction of the
shopmens strike which thev expected
late today, Mr. Jewell and other union
officials took occasion to lay before the
labor department protest against the
alleged importation of striKebreake.s
from Europe in defiance of immigration
laws. The immigration authorities
said the complaint had not been veri-
fed.
/. JOLIET, Ill, Aug. 9-ApproxiInate.y
\ 1900 engineers, firemen, conductors
and brakemen of the Elgin, Joliet and
Eastern big Four brotherhood walk
ed out here at midnight last night in
4 protest to the stationing of troops
around the yards. There were no
disorders.
The strike of the big Four" brother
hood is exclusively a local action, or
dered by Chairman Charles O'Day Of
the Joliet division of the Elgin, Joliet
and Eastern At 8 o'clock meeting
last night, he was instructed by the
men to notify the executives of the
impending strike unless the troops
were removed. 1t has not been learn
ed whether the national officers have
approved Of the local strike.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9-The rail
strike situation appeared destinated to
mark time until next Friday, although
executives of the striking shopcraft
unions were in Washington today t.
: consider President Harding's second
proposal for a voluntary termination
of the walkout.
Shop craft federation leaders here
have stated that the reply to the pres
identS communication proposing i'm
mediate resumption of work and ref
erence of the seniority issue to the
railroad labor board for decision would
be submitted to the general conference
of railroad labor heads here Friday
before it was sent to the White House
AS the railway executives also will
meet that day in New York to draft
! their answer to the administration
plan active developments in the situa-
J, ton before the end of the week were
|, improbable.
Rejection Certain
: Rejection of the administration plan
by the workers is generally accepted
as certain. Forecasts as to the course
of the managements are not so def
: mite; but it was apparently in antici.
patton of a second failure TO bring the
two sides to an agreement that would
restore full transportation facilities
:, that Mr.. Harding moved yesterday to
bring the authority of congress TO bear
! on what is admittedly serious ma
/, tional crisis
What suggestions the administra
tion will have TO make for legislation
to meet the nations need in the even
the presidents second proposal to the
!, railroads and the strikers also Is re
jected has not been disclosed. Mr.
, Harding yesterday indicated to house
= leaders, however that he was desir
!, Gus that the house remain in session
when it re-conyenes next Tuesday and
/. abandon plans for a series of three
\ day recesses TO await senate action or
, the tariff and other matters.
9 With both senate and house IN ees