The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-06-29
(By the Associated Press.


States railroad labor board today
cited the national officers of the six
shop craft unions:. the railway exc
cutives now meeting here and the
officers of four other railroad unions
to apepar before the board tomor-
row afternoon in an inquiry into
"the threatened interruption of traf-
fic." :, s.s ''.@t
In addition to the shopmen, whose
strike order already has been is
sued, the, four other unions cited,
now taking strike vote, are the
Clerks, Maintenance of Way, Sta
t;nnl,y, tiona1y Firemen and Oilers and
; B. M. Jewell, leader of the, shop
men, today served formal notice on
the railroad labor board that a
stNke call has been issued "on all
railroad and Pullman operating de-
partment local lodges of the six shop
crafts" Ha
The meeting of the railway exc
cutives and heads Of the ten unions
was set for 2 o'clock tomorrow by
the labor board, when the formal
notice of the strike call was receiy-
ed from the shopmen, announcing
the date for the walkout, as next
Saturday at 10 a. m. .~..
Chicago, June 28.-Strike orders
signed by the six craft presidents of
the railroad shopmen's organization
were sent out today to general chair
men, representing 100000 men, au-
thorizing strike at 10 a. m. July
ION all railroads and Pullman shops
in the United States"
Letters of instruction regarding
the progress and condu(t of the
strike were being prepared at general
headquarters here today and were to
be mailed out tonight.
"The issue Is cean-cut, with> no
strings attached" said B. M. Jewel
president Of the railroad unions Sec
tion of the American Federation of
Labor. 1T is up to the railway ex-
ecutives at their meeting today. They
can stop this strike today or tomor-
row, but after Saturday at 10 o'clock
it is all off. The kilograms of the
union heads to Cuyler, is the unions
last word" =" .' g..
The general committee of 80 chair
men today were on the way to their
home districts to take active charge
of the strike A subcommittee re-
mained at headquarters to direct
operations. p. ,.'
~ While union heads refused to dis
cuAs the strike, it was said a stato-
ment would be ISSUED later in the
day. No provisions for calling off the
strike, after an acceptable settlement,
have been made, it was understood,
but instructions being prepared for
district leaders will include such ar
rangements later, on telegraphic IN
structions.
r Members Of the Association of
Railway Executives under the chair
manship of T. Dewitt Cuyler, to
whom the shopmen's ultimatum was
addressed, were to meet here to-
day, in response to a call issued sew
-eral week., ago, but the program OF
this conference was not announced.
/. The strike issue is based on all
three Of the questions on which the
shopmen have been voting for two
weeks. These questions were on ac-
cepting the $6o,0Oo,ooo wage cut or
dered by the railroad labor board
July /, the modification of rules cut
ting down overtime pay by the board
and the farming out of railroad WORK
to ohtside contractors. .sE
>, The strike ballots continued to
come into union headquarters today
and the complete count will not De
announced before Saturday, it was
said. The original returnable date
of the ballots were June 80, although
the vote was urged to be in. by June
25. last Sunday. Union leaders SAID
today they would await the, last bal
lot tomorrow before compiling ana
announcing the total VOTE.