Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-08-18

by u. r. Al1OfQSOn
This is the seventh week of the
walk-out by the Federated Shop
Crafts, and everything is still going
nicely, with no desertions. There has
been a commissary established at
headquarters for the benefit of the
needy, and the public at large, along
with labor organizations are contri-
buting to it's up-keep, for they realize
that this is their fight as well as ours,
and they want US to win; AND WIN
WE WILL. We will teach organized
capital lesson on the Open Shop
theory that they will not soon forget.
There is an old saying ga burnt child
breads the fire." and the railroad Of
ficials, or children of Wall street, are
certainly getting their fingers
scorched.
If the stories published in the paid
press throughout the country be true
concerning the abandonment of trains
on the western roads on account Of
wornout equipment and other bad
features, and it certainly is true, only
! they do not give half of it, we do not
need to run the risk of our lives by
trying to ride some old broken down
train west to see what is happening.
Just go to that part of Newark called
"Texas," and look over the visible part
of the B. & O. and see the junk yards
running on wheels. The usual num-
Der is about two, and when they get
to operating in unison strutural
iron works or nail factory is silence.
1t sounds as though every bolt, bar,
and brace were ready to fall off, (yet
they expect men to pull human freight
with such equipment) and when it
does fall, it is going to scatter in all
directions. And if it happens to be
a passenger run who can tell the num-
Der of lives lost and cripples made?
Were I running taxicab in the same
condition as these engines, and invite
the public to ride, / would be ar
rested as a maniac with criminal
tendencies, and be imprisoned. If this
could be done with private citizen
why the hell can it not be done with
a corporation, for it is crime to ask
the public to ride on such dangerous
outfits as they are trying to push over
the railroads today. The person or
persons who ride on one of them
must be thinking of suicide. Do
these people who are part of the
public stop to think how little these
railroad officials care for them out
side, f their patronage? If they
cared for their safety they would
never ask them to patronize such old
broken down conveyances.
There is still something else the
public should look at. In the last
thirteen months there has been taken
from the shop workers in actual cash
and other considerations, over $50 per
month. How much has freight and
passenger service been reduced in
comparison with the reduction of
each and every mechanic? Yet they
claim this was being done for the pub
lie benefit. Jay Gould said "the public
be damned" Wall street is using the
same terms today. How much longer
the public is going to stand for this
condition of affairs is hard to tell.
There is one thing very noticeable on
the B. & O., and that is none of the
private coaches of the officials are
dragging behind any of these mount
aims Of scrap. And why? Because
they believe in representation, and
they want to be sure they are going
some place when they start out. How
about the public? Oh, that's different!
The agent will in all probability in
form them that yesterdays train will
!. be sure to leave tomorrow, providing
they can find pile scrap that will
hold together long enough to get to
the depot.
Why is it that their power is in such
delapidated condition? I? For the simple
reason they can not get mechanics to
do the work. Out of the 900 filthy
scabs that have been brought in here
since July the 1st they have found
sixteen mechanics, that is less than
encouraging to the striking brothers,
for it goes to show that there are not