The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-07-07
New Negotiations to Be Entered
Upon With Roads.
ANNOUNCED BY UNION LEADER
Decision Given Out by President
CRADLE, Following Conferences
With Members of u. S. Rail-
way Labor Board.

FzerS. This was announced by Presi-
dent e. r. Cradle of the maintenance
union, following conferences Tuesday
with United States railway labor board
members. Orders will be sent out to
local chairmen that a strike at this
time is unwise and that such action
win not be taken until every resource
has been exhausted.
Chairman Ben w. Hooper and Wal
ter l.. McMenimen, labor member, of
the federal board, spent their Fourth
10 trying to block the threatened strike
and bring the union men into tempo
rary agreement with the wage SEIZED
nle Of the board.
The union men at the conference
were President e. It. Cradle, who came
down from Detroit with a special
committee of the executive committee
OF the order; j. G. Smock, vice presi-
dent, who came UP from Indianapolis
W. d. Roberts of Wilkesbarre, Pa; G.
II. Planten of Boston, e. l.. Enke of
Wilkesbarre, p. Woods of Winnipeg
and ]. ]. O'Grady of Ottawa.
Both Sides Remain Firm.
Neither side In the shipments strike
showed any signs of weakening.
Union men admitted that no serious
effect had followed the walkout, but
declared that III few days freight
transportation, at least, would be tied
In snarl. The railroads continued
hiring new men and to issue ultima
tums setting the time at which the old
men must return or lose their rights.
Preparations for trouble were made at
several points, but the union men gen.
orally conducted themselves peace
ably.
II. e. Byram, president of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad,
sent out orders to Tacoma, Wash, it
was reported, warning the shopmen to
return to work by July 10 or lose all
their rights with the company.
More Men Go Out.
The strike spread to other unions in
q few places. Oilers and firemen at
the Illinois Central shops at Council
Bluffs failed to appear for work.
Trackmen on the Mahoning division of
the Erie threatened a strike unless the
road reinstateS a man who was dis
charged. Union men say this man lost
his job because he refused to do work
outside his regular duties. Big -Four
officials denied union report of
Walkout of maintenance men on the
Oeveland-G Cation division
Reports from various centers showed
strikers returning to work. In Seattle,
1t is reported, so shopmen were re-
fused their old jobs. Boston & Maine
railway officials stated that 200 strik-
ers had returned. Fifty men were
added to. the Albuquerque IN. MI San
ia BE shop. This was denied by the
union men. At Two Harbors, Mimi, it
was announced that striking shOpmen
on the Duluth & Iron Range road will
return to work this week.
Union officials insist that thousands
Of other workers would join the strike
In few days.
Hooper Warns Jewell.
And in a reply that obviously was
intended as an official prophecy.
Chairman Hooper said:
"The position Mr. Jewell is now
taking 10 the effect that the employees
whom he represents are no longer I'M
der the jurisdiction of the United
States railroad labor board or the
transportation act and, consequently,
that they are not In a position to
avail themselves of the manifold pro-
lection that the board has given his
organization and its members during
the last two years, is position that
may rise to haunt him later
1.-THE man who takes the work that
has been abandoned by striker al
ways has been called scab or
strikebreaker, terms to which much
approbrium attaches in some quarters
I'm the present case the men who
assume the work abandoned by the
striking railway employees cannot be
Justly reproached with the epithets
mentioned
mot Customary Case"
'sThis is not the CUSTOMARY case
IN which the employer and employees
have controversy about rules or
wages and each tries to impose his
views on the other.
"In this case the controversy ia
not, as In the former sense between
the carriers and their employers. The
people, by act of congress approved
by President Wilson, established a
government tribunal charged with the
duty of and vested with the power to
fix rules and wages for railway en-
ployees.
Disputes as to rules and wages
were submitted and the evidence and
arguments fully presented on both
sides Decisions of these disputes
ware handed down by the United
States railway labor board. 1t Is these