The Pensacola journal., 1922-12-04
PEOPLES FORUM
THE Shipments SIDE.

To the General Public:
The following message was supposed
to have been sent to Mr.. J. E. White,
NJ NJ. Of the L. & n. r. r. company at
Pensacola, by the general manager, B.
NJ. Starks:
"Supt. Denvy at Evansville telegraphed
at o'clock this afternoon as follows:
At a meeting last night strike was
called off and up to $3.50 p. m. today 100
men, all crafts, including six boilermak-
ers and seven helpers, have applied for
work and the office is now full of men
making application for work This for
your information.
IN. c."
Now you all know that Evansville is
the Howell, Ind, shops and this makes
the second time in a month that this
shop has called off the strike and gone
back to work. We would not be sur
prised to again hear of this same shop
going back to work in the near future.
Also we would not wonder if the boys
at Paris Tenn, or Corbin, KY, did not
go back again, as it has been about
month since the strike was called off at
these points in the imagination Of the
L. & N.
Now to be frank with all, this won't
go down at all and will not cause
break in the ranks. Nor will message
received at these points that Pensacola
has called the strike off cause them to
feel uneasy, as it is no more than we
expect. No! This Is absolutely false
and misleading, not to our members
but to the public.
The strike on; we repeat on; till the
L. & N. makes peace with It's striking
employees. We do not stoop so low as to
make an assertion that is absolutely
false but offer one that there Is some
ground to as we'll as support, viz Fhe
congestion Of the road and blocked sid.
ings at some points and bad order loco
motives that worse labor cannot repair
Today the miners are working but the
coal fields are literally swamped with
cars that cannot be hauled away TOT
lack of locomotives" with which to
haul the trains. Even Miller Brothers
shows lost money just on account OF the
dear old L. & N. We know 1T hurts for
the mechanics that could do them good
to he in our ranks and that the M. MS
are told to get them back at any cost
by the first of the year, but sucn IS me-
and then, too, they are "he-men'
Do thinkl A few years ago there was
talked nreached and drummed into our
ears from morning to night: Make the
world a decent place to live In ana we
are still Of that opinion, so we VIII strlKe
till the eternal SHOWS Of age falls on our
heads and the fires of life burn to tiny
fickering spark, and that even goes OUT
rather than to change our faith.
such is "Americanism" and 'he-men'
We can't be traitors to the wife and
cbiIdren. some even unborn. And then,
TOO if they have won the strike and 1t
ia over, why in justice to themselves ana
to us don't they go ahead ana run thelr
old railroad? Also stop the southern
rai1road from taking solid trainloads of
freight away from them that they can't
Dear people, don't let the dear, fond
nracions old railroad fool you with silly
kilograms that will not repair broken
6oIvn locomotives and safeguard your
Iivas bv the broken laws OF federal sa1e-
.,r onTI,ances. AS God is our hearer,
1;s+an. We will never be fooled by tele-
e-re~ns homemade in Pensacola and
in the same place. so De
and help US to get square deal'
folks. Is our prayer ~,
THE LOCAL FEDERATION OF SHOP
CRAFTS. ,ooo
Pensacola, Fla, Dec. 8, 1922.
Pensacola, Fla, Dec. l, 1922.
Editor Pensacola journal:
~ latter of the 18th Of November did
saeno to meet with the approval OF
NV soorIa did not expect it would.