Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-18
MAINTENANCE MEN !.
III OUTLAW STRIKE !.
WILL Be PLACATED
WaIkout Is Unauthorized by
Union HeadS-New Con-
ferences Called to Settle
Difficulties of Men

CHICAGO, July 17.-Approximate
ly $4,000 maintenance of way men
have struck without permission from
President Cradle, J. C. Smock, vice
president of the union, estimated to-
day.
Mr.. Smock said the strikers prob
ably will be outlawed by their ma.
tional officers. Mr.. Cradle, who con.
ferred with President Harding Sat.
urday, is in Detroit today.
Peace negotiations in the railway
strike temporarily were at stand
still today. Rail heads and strike
leaders, however, expected today's
developments to indicate more clear
ly the ultimate outcome.
Much Importance was attached to
the number of shopmen returning to
work today, as this day marked
& time limit on many roads for
retiring seniority and other rights.
Hopes for a settlement at an
early date appeared to be based
liefly upon the attitude of N. r.
Cradle, president the Maintenance
of Way Employees Union who came
to Chicago today from Washington,
where he held a conference with
President Harding./
Mr.. Cradle said Ihe would confer
with members of the United States
Railroad Labor Board to get sup
port to prevent carriers from re-
curing maintenance of way men to
do strikers work. He also said he
had called a meeting of the Broth
erhood's grand lodge, to be held
in Detroit Thursday.
Another indication of drift to-
ward peace was seen in tho state.
ment of r. A. Henning, general
chairman of the Federated Shop
Graf of the Mo- .hwest, that only
tn refusal of eastern roads to agree
to reinstate striking shop crafts
workers with their full seniority
rights was preventing a settlement
as far as the roads of the north
west are concerned.
Possible extension Of the strike
was forecast in the statement OF
William Parker, head Of the East
ern Chairmen of Railway Workers,
that local officials in eastern cen.
IS were having increasing diff
Guilty in holding the maintenance of
way men at their jobs. He said
twenty per cent of the 10000 men
in the metropolitan district already
were on strike. {s
Clerks Favor Strike
A message to E. H. Fitzgerald,
head of the clerks, freight handlers.
express and station employees union,
said strike oto of 5000 clerks on
the Chicago and Northwest rail-
road Showed SO per cent of the
men favoring a ualkout and ask.
ing for authority to strike. A cam
vass of the strike vote of the same
organization on the Chicago and
EASTERN Illinois road showed 90 1-2
per cent of the workers flvoring
walkout, according to represen.
tatives of the union.
Strike ballots are being circulated
by the Brotherhood of Railway,
Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers
and Express Employees to it's men,
bers employed by the Southern rail-.
way and affiliated lines. The en-
ployes charge that the company re.
duced wages in defiance of the rail-
road labor board.
Topeka, Kan, unions of the Big
Four Brotherhoods and the switch
mems union petitioned their officers
for permission to go on strike July
20.
In st. Louis fifty stationary fire.
men and oilers employed by the
Terminal Railroad association, voted
to strike today.
Clerks and station employees on
more than sixty of the POI class one
roads have taken strike votes, ac-
cording to information received here.
At Milwaukee, failure to receive
strike order from President
Timothy Healy Of the International
Stationary Firemen and Oilers union
was taken as a sign Of nearby
peace.
Reports of cancellation of trains
because of shortage of coal or equip
ment, violence continued to come in.
In Chicago more than seventy per.
sons, including seven policemen,
were reported to have~been made I'LL
by something placed in milk served