The labor world., 1922-07-29

volve. They know now as neve
the shops are the essential factor
More Join Strike.
More employees joining the strik-
ers every day and none returning to
work." is the word coming from
President Jewell Of the railway en-
ployes department. A. r. of L., at
national strike headquarters in this
city. 1.-THE men are out and will stay
out until their demands for a ''just
and reasonable wage and fair work
ing conditions are agreed to by the
railroads. Statements Issued tonight
by the railroad executives and Chair
man Hooper do not change the sit
uation."
It is a progressive strike. moving
forward and expanding from day to
day. On Monday 5000 members of
the Brotherhood Of Stationary Fire
men and Oilers, employed principal
ly at large terminal points joined the
strike in response to sanction tele-
gram sent to the 200 local unions
by President Timothy Healy. Today
$500 clerks and freight handlers of
the Chesapeake and Ohio were given
strike sanction by President +. G..
Fitzgerald. Similar strikes may be
expected from day to day during the
next week or two. All the station en-
ployes at Toledo, Ohio, and Dan
vile, Ill.,, quit in body.
All Standing Pat.
In the Chicago district the great
est railroad center in the world, S5,-
900 shop employees are out and stand
ing pat to a man. The same is true
of the shop men in and around New
York city, where more than 10000
are out. In the Rocky Mountain re-
gion and on the Pacific coast the
strike is 100 per cent perfect at
every point. The entire south is out
solid.
,,. Trains continue 20 be annulled,
and this epidemic has spread from
local TO through service. Shop yards
in Chicago and elsewhere are be-
coming choked with bad order cars
and disa bled locomotives. Members
OF the train and engine service
brotherhoods are refusing to take
out rolling stock SO decrepit as to
imperil life. The dragnet spread to
collect strikebreakers has thus far
failed to pull in mechanics to relieve
the distress of the managers. Men
competent to do this class of work
are not willing to scab on their fell
low-workers these days. even with
the promise of protection and sup
port of the United States Railroad
Labor Board and President Harding.
Chairman Hooper is making a
desperate effort to save the Labor
Board and has continued during the
past week to act as a self-appointed
intermediary between the shop craft
Officials and the railroad executives.
The latter have been told upon what
terms the men will return to work
and that is about as fa- as the ne
gotiations have progressed. There is
perceptible rift, in the ranks Of
the managers, and break Is eX-
pected almost any day.
Some Are Willing.
Many of the executives want to
accept the shop mems terms, but
fHuS lnSy nave IlOI UeSu Tree "
ACT without consent Of a small COM
fnittee Of the Association Of Railway
Executives which dictates the labor
policy Of the railroads as a whole.
J Decision Of the shop men not to
! fight the injunctions and thus let
the courts and the managers do the
worrying has proven a great success
Today when lawyers for the Burl-
ington road appeared in Judge
Pages Federal court to argue that
a temporary injunction against pick
eting, granted last week. be made
permanent. no one appeared to re-
sist the order. 1t was made perma-
nent. The strikers are no worse of
under a permanent injunction than
a temporary one. Hence the strikers
lost none Of their energy nor money
and thus far no strike official has
been sent to Jail, neither have they
broken the law