The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-07-05
LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY
Office of the VicePresident- Operation
Louisville. KY, July 3, 1922.

Louisville, KY, July - 1917.
All Employees and former employees
Members Of the affiliated organizations composing
what the federated shop crafts and to railway
shop aborers and stationary fremen and oilers:
AS you know large number Of the employees OF this
company represented by the socaed federated shocra
and also certain railway shop aborers stationary hrene
and Oilers left the service of the at 10 O'Clock
A. M July 1st 1922 and subsequent thereto er strike
orders issued presumably in accordance with PROVISIONS
of the constitution and bylaws of the ions
posing the federated shop crafts and stationary remen
and oilers inquiries have been made by some OF those re-
manning in the service and by many others who left the
service July LIST but desire to renter the conan
statement
1stAt the outset desire express for and in behalf
of the company it's grateful appreciation of the loyalty Of
the large number of employees heretofore represented by the
organizations question who have remained in it's service
wish assure them that their rights viii be fully pre-
served that they will be given every practicable pro
lection in the performance Of their duties
2nd-Of those who left the conpsnys service pursu-
ant these strike orders the company realizes that there
many who took such action against their wish ad
better judgment and it has been informed that large
Der OF such men desire to the service anx
to ascertain whether not their seniority and other
rights possessed by them at the time they left the service
would be restored should they reenter the service the
position of the is that those who left it's service
ity and other rights including pension rights TIE
companys voluntary pension system but that former
employee VINO csSres 70 the service VIII not DE-
later than o'clock A. NJ July 9Th 1922 any former
employee reenering the service after that time will do
employee with rights inferior to all others in the
service at the time he so reenters
3rd-To employees who shall enter the service
since July 1st and TO former employees who shall reene
the service the company likewise extends the Of
regular employment, under the wage rates and working
conditions prescribed by the United States Railroad Labor
Board and Of every practicable protection in the perform
ance of their duties.
4th-I ask those who for any left the service
July 1st and subsequent thereto bear mind the fact
that the strike action they have taken not merely against
the railroad it Is primarily strike against the findings Of
tribunal established by the Congress of the United States
to decide disputes between railroad companies and their
employees that there would be occasion for resort
to strikes hence the action you have taken strike
against the government itself, you keep in mind
the further fact that the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Company has accepted and put into effect all the decisions
of the United States Railroad Labor Board the tribunal
against whose decisions you have been called upon strike
notwithstanding those decisions have not been wholly sat
isfactory to it than it's decisions have been wholly
satisfactory to the problem you have decide involves
these questions Do prefer loyalty the railroad COM
pany which has always treated you fairly loyalty to the
public which must have efficient transportation service
loyalty to the United States Railroad Labor Board gov
ornamental tribunal established for your protection ana
loyalty to your interest and that your families VINO
vitality concerned in your steady employment and the
preservation of your rights do you prefer to follow the
dictates of organizatn which has been declared U
the United States Railroad Labor Board to be OUTLAW
and outside the benefits of the existing railroad labor leg
isation?
G. E. EVANS,
President.