Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-07-04
Shopmen Outlaws
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ence would avert walkout, They
declared that the only question at is
sue was one of wages and that the
way already had been opened for a
reconsideration Of wage reductions,
which went into effect on July \,
simultaneously with the shipments
walkout. as
At that time Ben w. Hooper.
chairman of the board, announced
that government reports indicated
an increase in the cost of living since
the board rendered its wage reduc-
ton decisions and that this could be
made the basis of an immediate sp-
peal to the board by the employees
for wage increases. Union leaders
were quoted today as demanding
only that the board hold up its wage
cuts pending the appeal. The differ
ence was slight. it was declared, and
the belief was expressed that the gap
would be bridged without strike.
Meanwhile conflicting claims con-
tinued regarding the number OF men
involved in the walkout of the shop-
men. Neither the union leaders nsr
the railway managers would give any
figures but 3. M. Jewell, reiterated
previous statements that the strike
was virtually 100 per cent. effective.
The railway executives, on the other
hand declared that traffic was being
continued practically without inter-
rption and repeated their assertions
that the efficiency of the roads would
not be seriously impaired by the
walkout for several weeks and per-
haps months. New workers are be-
ing recruited to take the places OF
the strikers and the opinion OF the
rail heads was unanimous that
several weeks and perhaps months.
New workers are being recruited to
take the places of the strikers and
the opinion of the rail heads was
unanimous that there would be no
interruption of transportation.
The OUTLAWS" order issued by the
Labor Board today followed a state
ment by Mr.. Hooper last week that
blood would be upon Mr.. Jewells
head in ignoring the boards order
to appear before it and justify his
| strike order. The order said In part:
IF it be assumed that the en-
| ployees who leave the service of the
carrier because of their dissatisfac-
! ton with any decision of the labor
board are within their rights, it. must
also be conceded that the men who
remain in the service and those who
enter it anew are within their rights
in accepting such employment; that
they are not strikebreakers seeking
to impose the arbitrary will of an
employer or employees; they have the
moral as well as the legal right to
| engage in such service of the Ameri-
can public to avoid interruption of
Indispensable railway transportation
and that they are entitled to the
protection of every department and
branch of the government, state and
national"
During the day the board received
an inquiry from w. B. ONeil, presi-
dent of the International Associa-
ton OF Railway Supervisors of Me-
chanics, who asked what his men
should do if called upon to perform
in a letter replied:
THE board is of the opinion that
the members of your organization
should not be required by the car
riers with whom you have agree
| ments to perform duties other than
the supervisors work as within the
scope of your duties unless such per
| Torrance is purely voluntary
The third day of the shopmen's
strike passed in comparative quiet,
although a slight disturbance was
reported at Perry, Iowa, where 90
laborers brought in from Chicago for
shop work were stoned and run out
of town. G. +. Johnson, general
manager of the Kansas City South
ern, reported to the labor board that
one of his assistants had been as
Saulted by strike sympathizers at
Leesville, La, while repairing an air
hose.
In the larger cities police guards
were reported to have been thrown
about railway property, while the
chamber Of commerce of Kansas City,
Missouri, following a special meet
ing, telegraphed request to Gov
ernor Hyde, asking him to call out
the National Guard of Missouri and
to station enough troops in Kansas
City to prevent loss of life and des-
tructon of property, which the
chamber said it believed to be an
imminent possibility in the railroad
strike
Laborcrs of the maintenance of
way and storehouse departments of
the Union Pacific Railway Labor
lard wage cut was posted on bull
letin boards in the shops here This
action was taken although no official
, strike orders have been received.
From Milwaukee came the asser-
ton by Fred d. Underwood, president
OF the Erie road, that the railroad
strike shortly will be won by the
roads. Mr.. Underwood said:
The Erie railroad will have all the
men it wants by the end of the
week. and that they would be most
ly the old men who had worked for
the road for years
Reports from other cities told Of
fist fights which caused only minor
injuries. At Oklahoma City, C. f.
Schaff, receiver for the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas railroad, today noti-
fled Governor Robertson that he an
ticipated violence against non union
employees Of the road and asked the
executive to be ready to afford pro-
lection. The first disturbance in
Chicago occurred at the Baltimore &