Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-07-21
RAILROAD 0HOPMEN
STRIKE SITUATION
SEEMS DEADLockED
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tons are involved. whether the mon
try 10 get back or not, ~ the com
pany here IL recruiting its shop forces
with men who desire 10 work.
II was explained by the company
that II any OF the individual shopmen
who havo responded 10 tho strike call
return 10 the company M individuals
and express 4 desire to 20 to work. his
case will receive consideration. This,
IL WINS announced, is all the company
could say on the question OF taking
back any OF tho men who formerly
worked In the local shops. Asked
about the restoration of seniority and
pension rights Of any such men who
may 80 return. IL was announced that
| the company reserves the right 10
settle nny question or seniority or
any other matters ms among the CON
dittons OF unemployment. always hav-
Ing In mind the fact that the man with
whom they were dealing was an In
diyidual representing only himself.
Satisfactory Conditions at shops.
The company states It is employing
new men each day and that II has been
having very gratifying results. both
as 10 numbers and tho kind Of men
who have applied for md obtained
employment I'm tho shops. The COM
pnny's engine house. IT was stated
today. IN working very satisfactorily
and the heavy traffio which is being
offered ut this season q tho year is
being moved without delays.
The company's employment chart
Az based on tho morning reports to-
day, after the check up md re-ad-
lustment OF the working forces at
2 Todds Cut. showed that total Of
CTS men are out on strike In tho back
terday, or gain for~the strikers OF
eight men. In the roundhouse today
the total number OF men admitted by
tho company TO be on strike Ia 1a4, ~
against total OF al yesterday, or
gain OF three In tho number OF
strikers. The sick list today shows a
total OF 81 in the back shops and II
In the round house. or n total for the
plant OF ~, a slight gain over yestcr.
, days total
, To counteract all this. however. IN.
q
A on the day shift reporting at 0clocl
the total number Of men ut work wn
265. az against a total OF 2ss Their
!, yesterday. or n gain OF 81 for tn
. company in tho number OF men nov
a working. In the roundhouse thi
morning total OF 81 men were a
!. work on the day shift, So against 4
= yesterday. or another gein OF two 4
4, the number OF men tho company ha
= nj, work.
There reports show that while IN
j.. company admits some gains in IN
ranks ~ the strikers. their plans r.
The employment Of new mon are bs
: ing effective. and that by importation
. they are beginning To increase IN
:, number OF men at work in the Todd
: Cut plant. One official stated thi
Y morning they felt they had touche
!. bottom on the unemployment situa
= ton and that they wore now begin
J. ming To r1ss again.
y The union leaders stated this morn
y ing that their total number Of me
registered as being on strike remain
J. ed the same AZ yesterday, 1850 Thi
ivy 'it'bs NpfitPI f6NH dDOut III IN
: men there were AT work AT Todd
Gut and that consequently there ca
hardly he any further additions
their ranks.
Tho railroad company az the he
ginning Of the strike claimed the nol
maj working force at Todd's Cut wa
I 1888 men. 10 that the claims Of III
| union men are close 20 the adInitte
y total number OF employees in this plan
with this situation confronting the
the unions are maintaining a stror
8 picket line about the shopa and the
Efforts are being devoted 10 the DIT,
ventiOn Of any new men going 20 woI
there. They are also trying TO indu,
some OF the new men now az VOL
he there 10 walk out and yesterday tn,
ne succeeded in persuading number
To- negroes to quit and leave town.
'e No Walkout of Clerks.
az Reports current this morning n
OF the railroad clerks were going 10 wa
TO out mad not materialixed up 10 moo
Al the Pennsylvania company's hea
ne quarters Il was stated none OF Z
he clerks working there had left III.
OF desks. In this connection II was .
IN planned that the Pennsylvania Systs
IN clerks Association had negotiated
to settlement with the management Z
u u reduction OF two cents an hour
90 their pay, which reduction was n
. effective until July Is, 1922, az again
n a reduction OF three cents an hour A
NJ thorized by the Railway Labor Boa
other raslroaRo 4.
=, country and effective on July I. 1922
ed was said the company here has h
rv no limitations of any trouble amo
its clerical force.
AT Delmar conditions have be
restored 10 normal and all the plac
OF the men who struck have been n
,el ed up. At Perryville out of a norm
mt working force OF IS, all OF WIFI
ria struck. 10 new men are now at VOL
ch AT Thurlow, where the normal wor
VS. ing force was IA and all Of whC
ed struck. "a new men have been put
In in their places. At all other poir
along the Maryland and Deiawa
,os Divisions, conditions are said by
cir company 10 be unchanged
Ia II was admitted today by the CO..
sw pany that several men have taken s
re, vantage or the Company's offer
n, board them in the shops II they wo,
=, work there and at the same time Sc
their families to some summer res
for the duration of the strike. Nj,
than dozen men have had III
~ families sent away and most OF IN,
have gone 10 Rehoboth.
~ At Todd's Cut extensive prepai
Nv tions have been completed for the
~ commodation and comfort of the II
'u who are at work there and who
elu making the Mani fhair hnr,ne fn,.