The New York herald., 1922-07-04
BAN ON SIX CRAFTS
Board Declares Men
Must Form New Asso.
Citations to Benefit
by Its Decisions.
Z. S, TO BACK RULINGS
Men Who Stay at Work
Entitled to Every Form
of Protection.
TRAFFIC STAYS NORMAL
Roads Announce They Are
Getting Many Recruits to
Replace Strikers.
TRAFFIC STAYS NORMAL

CHICAGO. July ASSOCIATED Press)
The six railway shop crafts unions
which went on strike Saturday were
outlawed by the United States Rail-
road Labor Board to-day
The outlaw order followed a state
ment by Ben w. Hooper, chairman of
the board, last week that blood would
be upon the head of Bert NJ. Jewell,
chief Of the striking shopmen. when
he ignored the boards order to appear
before 1t 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 dissat-
isfaction with any decision of the
Labor Board are within their rights.
1t 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 en-
ployment: that they are not strike
breakers decking to impose the arbi-
trary will of an employer on en-
ployees; that they have the moral
as well as the legal right to engage
in such service of the American
public to avoid interruption of in
dispensabIe railway transportation,
and that they are entitled to the
protection of every department and
branch OF the Government, State
and national.
Letters will be addressed by the
board to both the carriers having men
on strike and to the shopmen remain
ing at work. advising them to form new
associations or organizations" which
would function in behalf of the en-
ployees before the board and which
would be accorded the application
and benefit of the outstanding wage
and rules decisions" of the board.
Following their action In branding the
shopmen. the board tonight directed its
efforts toward the prevention of an ex-
tension Of the walkout to the 400,O 900
of way men.
Following a meeting of the executive
council of the United Brotherhood Of
of Way Employees and
Shop Laborers In Detroit to-
nounced that the threatened waikout
would be held UP pending conference
With the labor board in Chicago at 10
4. NJ tomorrow.
Members of the board expressed strong
lcpes tonight that the conference would
lvert a walkout. They declared that the
,nly question at issue was one OF wages
and that the way already had been
opened for a reconsideration of wage
-eductions, which went into effect on
fully l. simultaneously with the shop
mems walkout.
hat Government reports indicated an
ncreas. IN the cost of. living since the
BOARD rendered Its wage reduction de-
,islons and that this could be made the
basis OF an immediate appeal to tho
BOARD by the employees for wage in
'reases. Union leaders we're quoted to-
lay as demanding only that the board
lold up it's wage cuts pending the ap-
zeal The difference was slight. II was
declared. and the belief was expressed
hat the gap would be bridged without a
trike
Meanwhile conflicting claims con-
inued regarding the number of men in
'olvcd in the walkout of the shopmen
Neither the union leaders nor the rail-
way managers would give any figures.
,ut y. NJ. Jewell reiterated previou.
that the strike was virtually
90 per cent effective.
Traffic Continues.
The railway executives. on the other
and declared that traffic was being
ontinued practically without Interrupt
ion and repeated their assertions that
he efficiency OF the roads would not be
eriously impaired by the walkout for
everal weeks and perhaps months |
few workers are being recruited to take
he places OF the strikers and the opinion
( the rail heads was unanimous that |
here would be no interruption of trans !
ortation.
During the day the board received an /
1auiry from w. B. O'Neil, president
Z the International Association of Rail- |
Dad Supervisors of Mechanics, who /
sked what his men should do II called |
pom to perform the duties OF shop
zen. Mr.. Hooper In letter replied:
The board Is of the opinion that the
lenlbers of your organization should
OF be required by the carriers with
HON you have agreements to perform
uties other than the supervisors work
; within the scope or your duties un-
IS such performance Is purely volun-
sry."
The travelling public had its first ex-
erience to-day of the effects OF the
rike in the Pacific coast region when
sssengers on the Overland Limited OF
10 Southern Pacific lines, coming
trough the Sacramento Valley. where
e thermometer registered f04 degrees.
ere told the electric fans In the cars
,uld not be operated
II was said the electricity must he
'nserved for lighting the cars and that
, electricians were available 10 make
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