Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-10
$4,000 SH0PMEN
NOT To SUBMIT
TO RAIL BOARD
Won't Accept Harding
Plan to Offer Senior
ity for Settlement.
Executives c a | e d
Hard Boiled; Ready
for Conference.

New York. Aug. 9.-Twenty-five
thousand rail shop crafts workers
through David Williams. secretary OF
the eastern strike committee, Wednes-
day sent a telegram to 4. NJ. Jewell
at Chicago, putting themselves Oh rec
ord as refusing to accept President
Harding's proposal for submitting the
seniority question to the railroad labor
board.
The telegram read:
In behalf of 5000 striking railway
shopmen in the New York district we
indorse your stand in refusing to ac-
cept the compromise proposition of
President Harding. Located in a dis
trict exposed to the poison gas attack
as represented by the lying propaganda
of the railway executives, our members
have stood the attack without falter-
ing and the morale of the strikers is
perfect.
Many of the strikers are ex-service
men who fought under the Stars and
Stripes for democracy in the late war.
These men have witnessed our So
called American railway executives hire
cheap Chinese and Hindu labor to try
and break the strike and under no cir
cumstances will these former soldiers
agree to allow this conglomeration of
unskilled foreign workmen to be rom
sidered as favored employees of the rail-
roads in order to crafty the autocratie
desires of the American railway kaisers
for a condition of industrial slavery for
railway employees.
Let us assure you again we want
no compromise and urge that the fight
be fought to Il finish right now on it's
merits and the present administration
m rnysI.ni n ntyp , 4-% h. f~--I
to show whether it stands for real
Americanism or the brand of Amer
icanism represented by a few hard
boiled railroad officials who would
wreck our entire country in their lust
for power
The purpose of the telegram. said
Mr.. Williams, was to set Mr.. Jewell
straight on the attitude of strikers in
the metropolitan district toward both
the railroad labor board and the adj
ministration.
W. do not propose to be bound by
any understanding which provides that
we shall be put at the mercy of the
labor board in the disposition of
seniority rights"
The distrust of the labor board at
this time. Mr.. Williams said. was due
to the federal body's acton of july 3
and again July s, when it practically
outiawed the six affiliated shopcrafts
unions which we're participating in the
strike.
SAY EQUIPMENT DANGEROUS
Washington. Aug. 3.-Leaders of
the striking railroad shop craftsmen
occupied themselves Tuesday with pre-
parations Of the general meeting Of
railroad union officials they expect to
hold Friday and with the issuance of
statements declaring railroad equip
ment To be in a dangerously deteriorat-
ed condition.
p. NJ. Jewell. chairman of the strik-
ing shormen had a statement from
Warren Stone. chief of the engineers
brotherhood, that all further brother !
heads would accept the invitation
for conference.
Union officials took occasion Wed
nesday to lay before the labor depart
ment 4 protest against the alleged i'm
porration of strike breakers from
Europe by railroads. in defiance of i'm
migration laws.
Ihe unions statement on condition
of ralroad equipment said that re-
ports Of the American Railroad a%ssoci-
alton on repaired locomotives and cars
since the strike were incomplete and
were one of the many examples of
tn" methods by which the railroads are
a%ttmpting TO deceive the people and
to luil them into q sense of security
regarding the railroad situation.
Further II was declared federal in
and safety appliance laws are
not being complied with during this
strike. and there are practically no
proper inspections being made"