The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-25
RAIL BOARD
TO RECOGNIZE
NEW UNIONS
Situation Clarified by An
nouncement Government Ex-
poets Factions To Go to
Labor Board With Disputes.
BAR SEPARATE PACTS

CHICAGO, July 25-The railroad
strike situation was somewhat clari-
fled today by events taking place in
the east, one the announcement of
the governments position toward the
strike settlement, and the other the re,
fusal of the unions to permit sepa-
rate settlemen by roads as indicated
in the case of the Baltimore & Ohio,
which went into conference today with
some of it's striking employees at Bal
timore.
The government announcement stat
ed that the railroad labor board was
the place for the roads and their en-
ployes to settle their differences, the
members of which have been ques-
toned here for a day or two since
Chairman Hooper returned from con-
ference with President Harding in
Washington
Messages to the labor board report
ed the formation of new unions in
various parts of the country and
chairman Hooper said the board was
not to recognize such of these organ
iZations as representive of the workers
whenever they were known to have
a majority of the actual employees.
The board also held an executive
session, but withheld announcements
of its discussion which presumably
centered around Hooper's conference
with the president and his later meet
ing here with the union leaders.
Although the union chief on the Bal
timore & Ohio railroad met with the
management, seemingly the only thing
which could come Of the conference
would be plan that might prove a
basis of rail settlement.
To Recognize Unions.
New railroad labor unions proposed
by the carriers will be recognized by
the United States Railway labor
| board when ever they come before
that board with a dispute, providing
| they can prove to the board that their
| membership claims a majority of the
| men at work on the roads affected
other board members said today
These members explained that un
! der the transportation act, the board
| has no alternative in the matter The
| act, it was explains, provides nothing
which would justify the board in TAX
| ing action toward recognition until the
unions officially appear before the
board in a plea for settlement of {
| dispute between them and the car
riers.
The board then would investigate Il
| find if the labor organizations appear
ing were properly organized and rep
resented. The term representative
was defined as meaning that the or
Loo T1iz rin dc I'm -
majority of the workers of it's clas
then at work on the road implicated
regardless of how many men wer
normally employed or had been en-
ployed. If the unions were found T.
be representative the board woul
then have no other course than t
recognize them, it was said.
Strike Brought Home
The railway strike, combined wit
the coal strike. was being brough
home to the public today through tn
announcements of leaders in severa
, industries that unless a speedy settle
ment was reached closing Of tn
, plants, with resulting unemployment
rationing of fuel and food supple:
, and a Gripping of public utilities ser7
! ice would result.
! Steel plants, especially in the eas
; will be closed on a wholesale scale
present conditions continue until A,
gust, according to the head of a larg
steel corporation. Industrial coal wa
, said to be unobtainable at any pric
: in New York In Chicago increase
D of from $525 to s15.25 a ton in CO;
: prices we're announced A shortage
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