The Washington times., 1922-07-26

sorted to to force both men and
women back to the shops or
offices from which they struck.
Checks Rejected.
Pay checks mailed TO striking EN-.
ployes were turned down by one of
the National banks here. The unions
are arranging to advance money on
! the checks. They are, "non-trans.
ferable" and are payable only to the
person whose name they bear.
"If the company is passing out
worthless paper, II is liable to prose.
| cution," Purdy said. The bank, he
explained. gave no reason why the
checks were turned down.
A report was made at yesterdays
mass meeting showing that not only
the union strikers, but the non. n.union
employees as well are sticking to-
gether. Two hundred non union men
who struck with the union men on
the Huntington division of the c. a
O.. 1t was reported. are banded to.
gether to stay off the job until the
end Of the strike.
All trains on that division are re.
ported running from 36 to 4S hours
late and some have been abandoned.
Experts are Out.
The local railroad offices are be.
ginning to feel keenly the loss by the
strike route of some OF their best
rate clerks and shipping men, men
who are recognized as being experts
in their lines and men whose places
cannot be filled.
Forty clerks who remained in the
local offices or deserted the union
have been promoted by the railroads
and are drawing a much higher
salary than when the strike began.
s. I. Cottrell. Chairman Of the
city federation for the various crafts
in Richmond. presided at yesterdays
mass meeting. He told how one
Southern railway engineer was fired
off his Job for refusing to take a
bad order" locomotive out of the
yard. Four hours later the road
hired him back and paid him for the
| four hours he was on enforced va
cation"
There is no color line in this strike,
as was evidenced at the mass meet.
ing more than 100 colored strikers
were present. They sat on one side
OF the auditorium and TOOK as active
part in the proceedings AS any.
They were referred to as "our col.
ored brothers" by the speakers, and
the concluding feature of the pro.
, gram was the benediction by a col.
ored striker.
1,500 Strikers Shout.
I'VE will win"
The voices Of 1900 striking rail.
road employees here blended In one
mighty shout OF this slogan when
they finished singing America" at
a mass meeting at the city auditori.
um. The very foundations of. the
structure trembled.
From II o'clock yesterday morn.
ing until long before noon. the men
and women who walked out OF tn.
local railroad shops and offices as q
protest against the award OF the
railway labor board, heard addresses
by their leaders, in which they were
commended for the orderly manner
in which they have conducted this.
their greatest struggle and pleaded
with to stick to their guns II 1t takes
all summer.
This writer has talked with strikers
from coast to coast and has attend
ed numerous meetings of strikers,
he he has yet to find a group where
against capitulation than in Rich.
mond.
More than 1000 men and women
are on strike here. representing the
five railroads that have offices in
the Virginia Capital. The Chess-
peake & Ohio has its general offices
and most important shops here.
Other roads which have shops here
are the Atlantic Coast Line. the
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Po.
tomac and the Southern Railways.
Opened by prayer, the daily mass
meetings of the strikers are carried
on according to a fixed program
which consists of music by AN or.
chestra made up Of strikers. vocal
numbers by strikers, violin selections
by strikers, acrobatic stunts ty
strikers and finally addresses ty
union leaders,