Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-09-20
RESPONSIBILITY
FOR SHOPNEN's g
WALK0UT PLACED
ON RAIL CHIEFS
Jewell Checks Matter Up to,
Association Of Railway
Executives in Answering
In junction Bill,
28-PAGE AFFIDAVIT
READ INTO RECORD
Details History Of Various
Unsuccessful Peace Meet
ingSi Union Leaders Are
Opposed to Violence,

IngSi Union Leaders Are
Opposed to Violence,
i Chicago, Sept. 19 (by the Associ-
ated Press-Responsibility for the
railroad shopcrafts' strike was
placed at the doors of the Associa-
ton of Railway Executives by Bert
M. Jewell, head of the strikers in
answering Attorney General Daugh-
erty's injunction bill today.
MIR. Jewell did not appear before
Judge James II. Wilkerson in per-
SON but his attorneys read into the
record a twenty eight page affida-
VT in which Mr.. Jewell recited the
cases which he maintains brough.
ION the strike, detailed the history
]of the various unsuccessful peace
conferences which preceded the
agreement reached with some roads
here last week, and declared the
union leaders had never counte-
nanced violence.
He asserted that since August .,
when the strikers accepted Presi-
dent Hardings second peace pro-
posal the railway executives have
maintained lockout against them.
| Mr.. Jewell said he had been ad-
| Vised by counsel that the railroads
had no legal right, under the rules
of the United States railroad labor
board to deny his men their former
seniority rights when they resume
work.
Copies of Injunctions.
The defense attorneys preceded
1.-THE Jewell affidavit with the intro
duction of copies of cishty-nine in
functions obtained by various rail |
roads against strikers on their
lines. They contended that these
local inJunctions gave sufficient !
guarantee against violence and that |
la nation wide restraining order |
was unnecessary. Assistant Attor- |
lney General Grimm objected that !
the government had the right to ask |
linJunctiOns to prevent the destruc- |
ltion of interstate commerce and in
terruption in the delivery of the
mails.
The causes leading UP 10 the
strike, as the strikers see them, date
back to 1929, according to the Jew
lell affidavit. At that time the
labor committee of the I,ailwaFl
Executives association, headed by |
President Gray, of the Union Pa
cific, adopted q report favoring |
steps TO organize regional adjust |
ment boards, as provided by the
transportation act. w. w. After.
bury, vice president of the Penn
.sylvania railroad. presented a min
ority report opposing such boards.
Majority Report Rejected.
The majority report was rejected |
by the association and Z. Dewitt |
Cuyler, president of the executives, |
appointed Mr.. Atterbury to succeed |
Mr.. Gray as chairman of the labor /
committee.
This action of the Association of |
Railway Executives" Mr.. Jewell !
said, was regarded by the Off 4,
GERS of the railway employees de-
partment and generally by the en-
ployes as the beginning of a cam
paign by the Association of Rail-
way Executives against the rail-
way employees organizations for
the purpose of destroying the eff
fectiveness of the organizations |,
and disintegrating their member
ships and also as the beginning of |
a concerted effort to destroy the
effectiveness of the United States
railroad labor board"
An early dispute grew out OF
the practice of letting contracts
for shop work to outside contract
ors, who paid employees the pre-
vailing local wage scale instead of
the rates fixed by the board. The
board declared this practice unlaw-
full.
Committee "IIand Picked"
Another dispute originated on
the Pennsylvania, where union
men claimed the committee to rep
picked" by the railroad executives.
The board ordered a new election.
The Pennsylvania sought an in
junction to restrain the board from
and Judge Page, in dis
trict court here, granted it, but his
decision was reversed by the court
of appeals last June.
Denying the attorney generals
contention in the governments in
junction bill that refusal of the
shopmen to accept wage cut Or
dered by the labor board prompted
the walkout July ], Mr.. Jewell de-
clared disputes were the prime mo-
tives behind the strike. In point
Of fact, he said, the wage reduction
had not been passed on by the
board at the time the shopmen's
authorized the strike
vote last spring. The question of
wages was added to the strike bal
lots, he said, after the convention I
had adjourned. \
The defense is expected to take
all of>tomorrow and probably part j;
of Thursday in closing Its case.
The temporary order now in effect
expires automatically Thursday
night.