The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-07-05
STRIKE OF TRACKMEN
AvERTED BY LABOR BOARD
of Way Men to Take Up
Dispute With Individual
- Roads
CONCESSIONS ARE MADE
Both Sides Agree to Take Certain
/. Action Demanded by
Contestants

extension OF the strike OF railway
employees to 100000 trackmen was
averted today through the efforts
of members of the United States
Railroad labor Board and officials
of the United Maintenance of Way
Employees and Railroad Shop laborers.
Postponement of the strike was
announced tonight by E. f. Cradle,
Fesident Of the maintenance Of
Nay organization after he and his
executive council had conferred
throughout the day with Chairman
ben w. Hooper, of the labor, board,
and w. l.. McMenimen, labor men,
Der of the board.
Z Maintenance Of way chairman were
instructed to proceed to take up
maintenance of way disputes with the
individual roads, and in case an agree
ment, is not reached, to refer the mat
ter to the labor board. These dis
putes include the wage cut recently
authorized by the board for mainten-
ance Of way employees, changes in
maintenance Of way rules and the
contracting out of track work.
To Continue at Work
Members were directed to con-
tinue at work under the cut wages
ordered by the Labor Board, effect
i've July 1, but to make any revi-
sion in rates retroactive to July l.,
and to withhold strike orders pend
ing the carrying out Of these mat
ters. 1t was also announced that
an immediate ruling from the La
Dor Board would be sought absolv-
ing members from doing any work
formerly done by members of other
organizations on strike.
~ One of the conditions to post
ponement of the strike was that
the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad
cancel it's contracts with an out
side agency to do track work and
officials of the road were sum-
nloned before the meeting and
agreed to do this, maintaining, how
ever, that such contracting was law
full.
With this crisis safely passed,
both railroad executives and Off
GERS Of the shop crafts now on strike
admitted tonight that the first real
test of strength of the striking
nshopmen will occur tomorrow morn
ing when the whistles blow.
Success, Says Jewell
B. M. Jewell, head of the railway
employees department of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, has con-
tended that practically 100 per cent
of his 100000 members had obeyed
the strike call. The carriers have
asserted that many men who
walked out last Saturday were
merely going for holiday over
othe Fourth of July, and will be
back on the job tomorrow morning.
Mr.. Jewell today replied to the
pronouncement of the labor board
of yesterday "outlawing" his or
ganiation by asserting that it was
not the shopmen but the board it.
yself that had been "outlawcd." Mr..
Jewell in his letter to the board
asserts that the body had failed to
negotiate settlement between the
shopmen and the carriers and reiter-
ated his intention of dealing only
with the Grads in making settle
ment
President Harding, in an address
at Marion, Ohio, today, took cog
Enhance Of the labor situation when
,,he declared that a man has right
to labor without ;.ny others per-
mission and that men also have the
right to bargain collectively. "Gov-
ernments," he added, Cannot tol-
crate any class or grouped denomi-
nation through force"
Day Passes Quietly y
The fourth day Of the shopmen's
Strike passed quietly. The head
quarters Of the organization here
was practically deserted and the
holidays effect was felt on the
strike situation everywhere.
Several Of the railroads main
tained that their shop forces were
being augmented by the strikers
themselves who were returning to
fwork. These statements were de-
MED by the union men.
Violence in connection with the