Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-07-04
TRIBUNAL PUTS
FORTH EFFORTS
To KEEP STRIKE
FROM SP READING
Threatened WaIkout of
100000 Maintenance Of
Way Employees Held in
Abeyance for few Hours,
MAY BRIDGE THE GAP
WITHOUT ANY TROUBLE
Conflicting Claims Continue
Regarding the Number of
Shop Workmen Who Have
Quit Their Jobs.
lBy The Associated Press !

Chicago, July 3 (by the
Associated Press. - With
striking shop men formally
branded by the U n t e d
States Labor Board as "out-
laws" the board tonight di-
rected it's effort toward the
prevention of an extension
of the walkout by 100000
maintenance-of-way men.
Following a meeting of
the executive council of the
U nj t e d Brotherhood of
Maintenance of Way En-
ployes and Railway Shop
Laborers in Detroit today
to canvass a strike vote, it
was announced t h at the
threatened walkout would
be held up pending a con-
ference with the la b O r
board in Chicago at 10 a.
m. tomorrow.
Members of the board expressed
strong hopes tonight that the con-
ference would avert walkout.
They declared that the only ques-
tion at issue was one of wages
and that the way already had been
opened for reconsideration of
wage reductions which went into
effect on July / simultaneously
with the shipments walkout.
Increased Living Costs.
At that time Ben w. Hooper.
chairman of the board announced
that government reports indicated
an increase in the cost Of living
since the board rendered its wage
reduction decisions and this could
be made the basis of an immediate
appeal to the board by the en-
ployes for wage increases. Onion
.leaders wsFssauetea today as de-
manding only that the board hold
ZIP its wage cuts pending tbs ap-
peal. The difference, it was de-
clared, was slight and the belief
was expressed that the gap would
be bridged without strike.
Meanwhile conflicting claiTs
continued regarding the number of
men involved in the walkout of
the shopmen. Neither the union
leaders nor the railway managers
would give any figures, but B. NJ.
Jewell reiterated previous state
ments that the strike was practic-
ally 100 per cent perfect. The
railway executives. on the other
hand, declared that traffic was be-
ing continued practically without
interruption and repeated their as
sertions that the efficiency of the
roads would not be seriously i'm
paired by the walkout for several
weeks and perhaps months.
New workers We're being recruit
ed to take the places e the strik-
ers and the opinion Of the rail
heads was unanimous that there
would be no interruption of trans
portation.
"OutIaw" Order.
The "outlaw' order issued by the
labor board today followed state
ment by Mr.. Hooper last week that
"blood would be upon Mr.. Jewelrs
head" in ignoring the boards or
der before it and justify his strike
order. The order said in part:
'If it be assumed that the en-
ployes who leave the service of the
carrier because of their dissatisfac-
ton with any decision of the labor
board are within their rights, 1t
must also be conceded that the
men who remain in the service and
those who enter it anewsce within
their rights in accepting such em-
ployment; that they are not strike-
breakers seeking to impose the ar
bitrary will Of an employer on en-
ployes; that they have the moral
as we'll as the legal right to engage
in such service of the American
public to avoid interruption of in
dispensable railway transportation
and that they are entitled to the
protection of every department and
branch Of the government, state
and national"
Slight Disturbance.
The third day of the shopmen's
SLTlk6 pd5nCu III ScihPdi otifO quiSt,
although slight disturbance was
reported at Perry. Ia, where twen-
ty laborers brought in from Chica-
go for shop work were stoned and
run out of town.
c.. e. Johnson, general manager
of the Kansas City Southern, re-
ported to the labor board during
the day that one of his assistants
had been ASA aulted by strike SYM
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