Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-05
Il Considered
Turning Point In Shop
Mems Walkout; Many
Reported Back AT Work
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said MI. Jewel.. The board didn't
ask the roads to give the uen back
pay for the amount~the men want UNI
der contract system. Those men were
rcbbed-that was the railroads meth
cd Of using their commodity theory of
labor"
Reports from various local unions
received at union headquarters today
reiterated the leaders statement that
the walkout was practically 100 per
cent"
Chicago. July 5.-(By the Associ-
ated Press.)-Railway shopmen who
walked OF their jobs last Saturday
played a Ion hand in the rail strike
today. Fears that other unions would
join the striking shopmen were vir-
tually dispelled.
The first wide rift in railroad strike
clouds showed yesterday when main
tenance OF way employees, who in
clude track workers and other COM
mon labor, definitely abandoned the
idea of a walkout at this time.
Credit for averting a rail strike
which threatened to become general
among all classes OF railway labor OK
cept the Big Four brotherhoods and
~telegraphers, was generally conceded
w vi " AOopS ia q Va ~
United States railroad labor board;
w. l.. McMenimen. labor member of
the board. and E. F. Cradle, presi-
dent of the maintenance men-the
big three" in yesterdays conference.
IS a result Of the holiday confer
ence. nearly 100000 maintenance of
way men, who for a week lowered
on the verge of a strike after voting
Overwhelmingly in favor of a walk
out. will remain at work.
Maintenance men will stay on, the
job. under protest" against the $780,
OO0,0 900 cut in their wages pehding
negotiations for a readjustment o
wage scales upon an appeal by the
employees.
Railroad officials throughout the
country were waiting today for the
first definite disclosal of the effect Of
the shopmen's strike. Over Sunday
and Yesterdays holiday rail officials
said it "a impossible to determine
how many employees of the six shop
crafts had actually responded to
Saturdays strike order. When the
whistles blew this morning, the rail-
roads began an inventory of their.
shop workers.
Forfeit All Rights.
In many rail centers strikers were
notified they would forfeit all rights
and consideration for future en-
ployment if they failed to return to
their jobs Immediately. Many roads
were accepting new men for work in,
the shops.
Jewell to Make Statement.
Officials of the shop crafts said
their strike was virtually 100 per
cent effective and encouraging from
their viewpoint. B. NJ. Jewell. head
of the railway employees department
of the American Federation of Labor
and nominal head of the shop crafts,
who yesterday retaliated to the state
shopmen as OUTLAWS" by OUTLAW
ing" the labor board, intimated that
he would have something more to say
on the situation following a meeting
of his executive couDcil today.
Union officials predicted that other
classes OF railway labor would be-
come innoculated by the shipments
strike land hat the effect, Of The
walkout would begin to show on
transportation soon. J.
Railway CLERKS and station en-
ployes. some of whom poled a strike
vote recently. have in many in
stances made separate agreements
Win tnelr rOa0s and. any strikes by
these classes would, it is believed, Re
called only on individual roads.
The railroads ais waited today for
the effect Of the message of Timothy
Healy. president of the stationary
fremen and oilers, who told the
5000 members of his organization
that they had "a: perfect right" to
strike il they wished. in view of the
railroad situation.
ION the Fence"
Signalmen were still "on the,
fence" but their president. D. W..