Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-02

ty of the labor board, overthrown its rules and discredit it's authorhy.
 The chairman of the labor board at the time the strike was called made the following public statement:
 :" Upon one question, the striking er1- ployes should not be deceived. Their leader has said that the strikers are no longer employees of the railways, and they have thus automatically abandon ed all the rights they possess under their agreements and under the decisions of the board, including their seniority. This is not the boards action. It is their own.
 ;s Many carriers are giving their former employees the opportunity to re- enter the services within limited lime
 It must be understood now that men who remained in the service and those who are now entering it will have rights of seniority that the board could not ig- nore'
 "The chairman of the boards state
 ment that this is an individual utter
 ance, but it expresses, in substacne, the sentiments of large majority of the | members of the railroad labor board was justified by formal action of the | board taken in it's resolution of July 8, | 1922, which stated, among other things.
 as follows:
 |" Be it further resolved. That the employees remaining in the service and
 the znew ones entering same, be accord
 ed the application and benefit of the outstanding wage and rule. decisions of the railroad labor board, until they are amended or modified by agreements with said employees, arrived at in conformity with the transportation act or by -deci- | sion of the board, and,
 Be it further resolved. That, if it ] be assumed that the employees who leave l-the service of the carrier because of
 their dissatisfaction with any decisions
 of the labor board are within their rights in so doing, it must likewise be conced' ed that the men who remain in the ser. vice and those who enter it anew ars
 within their rights in accepting sucl
 employment, that they are not strike
 breakers seeking to impose the arbitrar.
 will of an employer or employees tha
 they have the moral as we'll as the lega
 right to engage in such service of tn
 American public to avoid interruption 0
 indispensable railway Transportation
 and that they are entitled to the pro
 lection of every department and brancl of the government, state and national 'It must be understood that any pro posal that employees now on strike shai be permitted to return to the service , without impairment of their seniority
 is merely another way of sugSastin that those men wno n.l rmp.uynl.r.r . this crisis in good fai.n, relying on tn 7 promises Of the railroads to protect ther in their positions, these promises bein } justified by the authoritative utterance of the labor board and thus have mad . possible the continued operation ot tn railroads, shall now be sacrih ed in ia 3 Yor of men now on strike, who not onI : brought about the crisis. but by thei ) own action and declaration arl ID Ions = CT employees of the railways. under tn : jurisdiction of the United States railroa : labor board, or subject to the applicatio f of the transportation act
 Tn addition to the necessity of ur 7 holding the labor board, and maintainin
 the pledges made by the roads to th 5 men now al work, there is the practic; effec on the supervisory officers of e violation of the pledges they were a, U thorlzed to make. Their discourasemer
 and demoralization would be far mol disastrous than this or any other. strik Q Much harm has already been done by r, 6 peated publication of runors in recer e days that the loyal men and the ne men are to be sacrificed to the striker This has discouraged new men from aI r cepting employment in as great number e as would come forward If certain tn; = the pledges given would be fulfilled. Sue y published rumors only delay the comple y collapse of the strike
 F Tn view of the above. 1t Is subrnittt u that the striking former employees cal > not be given preference to employees @ present In the service, without doing V e olence to every principle of right ar It justice involved in this rhanser an 't without the grossest breach of faith ( 0 the part of the railroads to the men
 present in their service. Under the 0 circumstances, it becomes apparent tn > the railroads cannot consider any Sc Q clement of the present strike which do D. not provide protection in their prese y er11sioyment,- both to the loyal employ le 'sfc remained in the service and to [! ss In-W en1nloVes enf erfng if