The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-07-27
In the Meantime Govern
ment Agencies Prepare
To Take Steps Toward
control of Railroad and
.ne Situation

Detroit, July 26.-(By the Associ-
ated Press)-A threat that the 100000
maintenance men on the nations rail-
roads will go on strike because OF
alleged action of certain eastern roads
in attempting to form company or
ganiZations to take the place OF in
ternational railroad brotherhoods and
the action of guards employed on the
railroads, was made here today at
headquarters of the International
brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Employees and Railway Shop Labor
ers.
e. F. Cradle, president of the union
is in Chicago comforting with the
Railroad Labor Board and is prepared
to demand, it was stated authorita-
lively today, that certain practices
of the railroads be abandoned. I'm
less grievances of the maintenance
men are settled, it was stated at un-
ion headquarters here, strike is
inevitable.
The brotherhood officials here
charge the Lehigh Valley and the
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
and other eastern roads are attempt
ing to organize company Unions tc
take the place of the present labor
organization.
The maintenance men also protest
against use of guards by the roads
They assert lives of all railroad EN-
ployes who remain at work are i'm
speriled by promiscuous shooting on
the part of guards charged with pro-
tecting railroad property during the
shopmen strike.
Specific instances cited are those in
Saginaw, Mich. and at Tucumcari.
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Fifty maintenance men quit in the
Pere Marquette shops at Saginaw
yesterday, saying they feared they
would be wounded owing to careless
handling of firearms by the guards
At New Mexico City it is alleged 30
Mexicans were brought across the
border into the United States, depu-
tized and given firearms. Maintenance
men there protested to President
Cradle, saying they would refuse to
work as long as the MeXicans were
permitted to have guns. The report
here said members of other railroad
brotherhoods employed at Tucumcari
had protested in a similar manner to
their brotherhood officials.
On several eastern roads where the
practice of forming company unions
is said to have been put into effect
the maintenance men have asked per-
mission to quit work, it was said at
the union headquarters here.
Cradle Denies Report
Chicago, July 26.-E. f. Cradle
president of the International Broth
erhood of Maintenance of Way EN-
ployes and Railway Shop Laborers
denied today reports emanating from
bis headquarters at Detroit that 400
0H0 members of the union were
khreatening again to strike. Mr.
@Grable said negotiations were pro
ceeding satisfactorily before the
United States Railroad Labor Board
Baltimore & ohio Negotiations
Baltimore, July 26.-While none o
the men represe enting the management
and the striking shopmen of the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad would com
ment on the situation prior to resum
ing their conference today there wa
no attempt to conceal their cheerful
ness. Inquirers for an expression o
, opinion, were referred to the brief oi
fetal statement issued at the close o
yestrday's meeting, which said tina
the time was devoted ito a genera
discussion" of the wagereduction. an
of the rules and working condition