Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-07-21
Railway Executives Refuse to
Enter Negotiations to End
Shopmen's Strike.
PROCLAMATION BY HARDING
He Warns Against Interference With
Malls and Strikers RepIy-France
Opposes Moratorium for Ger
many-Attitude Of Russians
Disrupts The Hague
Conference.
BY EDWARD W. PIcKARD


@ TRENUOUS efforts to bring to an
end the strike of railway shopmen
were made last week by Chairman
Hooper and his colleagues Of the e d
eral labor board, but up to the time OF
writing these had been entirely I'M
successful and the status of affairs
did not give much hope of an early
peace. Late Wednesday night the rail
way executives took action that In the
minds of many placed On them the
burden of blame for the failure Of ne
gotiations, They fatty refused to en-
ter into a parley with B. NJ. Jewell,
leader of the strikers, and their rea-
sons were held by Mr.. Hooper to be
in the main quite insufficient. They de-
manded that the shopmen abandon
their strike and then proceed to set
tie their grievances through the labor
board. They declined to meet Jewell
on the ground that, the men having
struck IN defiance Of the decision and
order Of the board and the controlling
provisions Of the transportation act,
"the issue thus raised Is not one for
consideration between the carriers and
the representatives Of the organized
crafts on strike, except through the
further orderly processes before the
United States railroad labor board, as
contemplated by the transportation
act"
Unbiased opinion Will agree with
NJ. noo0orSs e%ak0pnap% %hof Tho ovoCn-
tive gave no reason that would satisfy
the public. He continued: TN so far
as the declination Is based on a desire
to preserve the authority and dignity
| Of the railroad labor board, 1t is super
fuous. The labor board will endeavor
to take care of itself IN that regard
The statement in the letter that
the strike is a refusal to accept the
results Of the arbitration Of the rail
road labor board" falls a little short
Of accuracy. One of the questions In
volved in the strike is violation OF
the boards decisions by certain car
riers. 1t is true nearly all Of the car.
riers have discontinued this practice
but some Of them have not"
Chairman Hooper intimated that
new peace plans of the board involved
appeals to the railway lines individu
ally.
In many parts of the country, es
pecially the Middle West, Texas, ant
on the Pacific coast, the disorders du'
TO the strike became increasingly VIC
lent. and a number of men were killed
In several states the militia wal
called out, and in some localities
notably Bloomington, H., the engi
neers, fremen and trainmen rebellet
against working under military guard
Sympathetic strikes were talked OF
The leaders of the brotherhoods hell
several conferences and said their mel
would continue to operate trains III
to the point where the military occu
patton began.
President Helt of the railway sig
nalmen announced that mis- organize
ton had postponed striking pendini
negotiations with the labor boar
which are now under way. On on
Eastern road ell the clerks struck.
Determined to guard federal inter
esta. the administration at Washing
ton has been keeping close tab on tn
developments, and President Hardin
issued a proclamation directing a
persons to refrain with all interfel
ence with the lawful efforts to maii
tain interstate transportation and tn
carrying Of the United States mails
This was done after Postmaster Gel
eral Work had submitted to the ca
met instances Of interfel
ence with the transportation of IN
mails and the information that a nun
her of roads had been forced to abal