Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-11
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By International Labor News Service,
Chicago Aux. a.ssf0sident Hart
tng's plan 10 settle tue raiiVad strike
has failed tie is oAt nt luck
Neither tie eeW barens nor the
railraad magnAtes appear 10 give his
peace formulas serious consideration
aud labor has not accepted them with
any degree ef ferseE Perhaps it Is
because they 80 not contain mgred-
tents requisite u cure industrial ills,
The President has offered nothing
that feaehes the root Of the disease.
lie merely seek Il saethe and pailissc
for the moment. lie thinks only Ia
terms Of political eNpedieucy
Representative Of the striking
shopmen. IN session here gor two days,
voted to accept the Presidents plan
as preliminary basis Ia settle.
ment This action was purely one Of
policy, for the proposal held out no
assurance 10 the strikers that they
would obtain better conditions than
were youehsafed them on July
when they Gut the shops. The Presi-
dents plan would have the men re-
turn to work leaving them 20 the ten.
der n1eneies Of the kailrOad Labor
Board, the same tribunal which has
been kicking railroad employees In
the stomach for the past Two years
and four months.
Railroad executives, ia ouc.day
session at New York, summanly re-
Jeeted the plan, baainR their action
ON the. great wrong that would bc
done seahs and atflkchreakers" II
they we're denied seniority rights
guaranteed them by the Railroad La
Dor Board in the "outlaw" resolution
of July 7, which Is quoted at length
in support of their position.
Thus does tho spite resolution OF
Governor Hooper, chairman of the
Labor Board, again serve aa a club
in the hands of the managers This
Is the first time, thanks 10 him, that
seniority rights have ever heen made
"A subject of contention IN the settle
ment Of a railroad strike. In May.
1910. l,12S maehinista struck Ia the
shops Of the Missouri Pacific. by the
time the strike wae settled IN neceni,
h3f uf tl.at .sar Il ,.l2s meylmniee'
had been employed TO fill their places
The management did not request that
even one of these recruits should be
kept In the shops. II was good
riddance. just as 1t would be In the
present instance.
Strike Goes On Under Greater Head
of Steam.
Officials of the railway employees
department, presidents Of the six fed
Grated shop crafts and the division
committeeman from all parts Of the
United States, In session this week,
declared that the strike would new
be carried ON under greater head
of steam. No weakness was reported
from any direction, Telegrams were
sent to all locals TO carry on with
vigof. More than 10000 coal min
efs have been out for four months
and they are all alive" was the way
one official put 1t. The United Mine
Workers membership Is ii7,00O great
er than on April /. The shopmen
can and will make a similar record
If necessary 10 win this strike.
! II becomes more and more evident
that this strike viii have 20 be settled
by direct negotiations between em-
ployee and employer, impelled by the
economic power Of the organized
workers. The Labor Board, o tribunal
set up by Congress, and the President
OF the United States wiih all his sup
posed influence has failed There yet
remains the chance that President
Harding may take over the raods and
operate them In the interest Gf the
public. He is clothed with the legal
authority to perform this major
operation. All he needs Is the viii to
do.
In the meantime transportation
grows increasingly groRgy. Round
houses are full of manned locomotives
and side tracks are eloRged with bad
order cars. Trains are being annulied
every day. Passenger schedules on
most lines cannot be maintained.
Troops are on guard ia eight states.
lnjunetions continue 10 be issued for
the asking.
Yet this is one of the most orderly
strikes of magnitude in all industrial
history. The shop men know they
can win By holding firm. Millions Of
dollars are being uselessly spent 10y
the carriers in recruiting the strike.
breakers who are not mechanics. This
il hard on the stockholders and tho
people who pay the freight Not
single engine was turned out Of The
Illinois Central back shops IN Chicago
during the month Of July, where il
was claimed 200 mechanic" hat
been recruited. This is true Of othel
roads, here and elsewhere.
Scabs Well Paid. See America
DE Luxe.
These strikebreakers are paid tht
/ 10 cents an hour awarded by the