Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-07-20

/ E. E. CALVIN, Vice President
U. P. System, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dear SIR
For information OF general public
from whom inquiries have reached
me as well as for assurance of our
shop employees and those who are
| entering our service every day and
to the end that our former employees
may thoroughly understand our posi-
tfon, l wish you would communicate
contents of this letter to be published
through the press and to all of our
officials 80 that the public and each
| former employe shall be personally
advised In regard thereto.
Chairman Ben W. Hooper of the L.
IS. II. r. Labor Board, July 1922,
Issued the following Statement:
Regardless of any question of the
right Of the men to strike the men
! who take the strikers places are
mrely accepting the wages and work
ing conditions perscibed by Gov
eminent tribunal and are perform
ing public service. They are not
accepting the wages and working
conditions which any employer is
trying to impose. For this reason
public sentiment and full govern
ment power will protect the men
who remain in their positions and
new men who may come in" Sub
seQuently the labor board has de-
clared that the rules and working
conditions under which mechanical
forces were working before the strike
ar still in, full force and effect They
cannot be changed except by an
agreement between our employees
and the management Of this system
or in event of failure to reach mu-
tuaf agreement by our employees
mot the former employes) and the
formr employes) and the manage
ment, e1-part or Jointly referring
the disagreement to U. S. R. R. Labor !
Board for decision, therefore, since
our former employees left our service |
of their own free will and accord |
hereby ceasing to be employees Of |
this system, the public and those who
have remained loyal to our service
and those who have entered service
since strike as we'll as those who are
entering our employ daily may rest
assured that the management of this
system will use every resource at its
command to keep faith with them /
and unqualifiedly pledges itself to
make no settlement of the strike
which will in any manner whatever
deter them of thir rights of jobs
which they have gained in accord
ance with shop crafts agreement and
The declaration OF labor board. The
only way any one of our former en-
ployes may enter our service is as a
new employee and the opportunity to
even thus enter the service is grow
ng less day by day owing to fact our
orces are rapidly increasing, the
public will keep in mind fact that
his strike is not against this rail-
Dad system but that 1t is against the
lecision of agency of our govern
nent, therefore the strike simply re-
olives itself into question whether
he orderly processes of law and orde
hall prevail or the question whether /
he orderly processes of law and /
rider shall prevail or the abritary ac
ion of a small minority to that ques-
ion there can be but one answer we
re law abiding people the orderly
PROCESSES of law shall prevail. The
of this system has re-
Igiously at all times kept faith with
Is employees both as to its spoken
nd written word and 1t always will.
C.. R. GRAY, President