The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-08-15

Locally the strike situation has
mot developed anything out of the
ordinary, and the men are awaiting
the results Of conferences in pro-
'gress by their National leaders and
the Labor Board.
/ w. H. Brown, vice-President OF
the International Brotherhood OF
Railroad Shop Crafts, spoke at the
court house Friday night to a
crowd which taxed the capacity OF
the big Circuit Court room, taking
as his subject: 'Why The Shop
men Are On Strike" Mr.. Brown
was introduced by S. Jewell Rice,
Lexington attorney, who stated in
! his Introductory remarks that Mr..
| Brown had been brought to Paris
to place before the people the real
issue in the railroad strike situa-
ton.
Mr.. Brown stated that this strike
was not strike for definite wages,
but fight between human rights
and property rights. He said that
the rights of workmen to live re-
specially and to properly educate
their children and to create better
conditions for the posterity was in
conflict with the plan of Wall street
to make millionaires of railroad
magnates and relegate the mass of
people to the poor house. He stated
that the railroads were arguing
that the strikers were outlaws, but
| that they forgot to state that it is
positively known that ninety-twO
RAILROADS in 104 cases violated the
transportation act. He stated that
during the war, when men were
supposed to be doing philanthropic
acts for the government, $4,000 new
millionaires were made, and that
the new democracy is worse than
the old.
Mr.. Brown, in referring to local
conditions, said the strike-breakers
on the job here wouldn't work a day
at honest toll in pie factory.
He said that outside of the men on
men to man one railroad. and cited
in his own way it was necessary
for the railroads to take back their
old experienced men. Mr.. Browns
speech was masterful presenta-
tion of the strikers side of the pres
ent affair, and was full of able, con-
vincing arguments for the justice of
their cause. One statement in the
course of his speech which brought
forth applause from the big crowd
was to the effect that organized
labor is composed of 100000 mem
bers, from the lowest craftsman to
the most skilled men in the world
to-day" His address was along the
lines of the evolution of labor from
it's beginning to the present time
and the very important part labor
unions play in lettering the condi-
tion of the laboring man.
The railway executives Of the
country Sunday night made public
their response to President Hard
ing's last strike settlement proposal
in which it was stated that major
ity of the executives in their meet
ing at New York, Friday, voted to
give striking shop crafts workers
their old jobs if vacant, or if filed
similar work pending determination
of seniority by the Railroad Labor
Board.
| The executives committee, which
came to Washington, Saturday, and
delivered to President Harding
their response to his last settlement
proposal and later met with chiefs of
the train service brotherhoods, let it
be known that no further confer
ences OF any kind were planned.
The announcement was described
by one spokesman for the executives
as meaning ga fight to the finish" in
the existing strike so far as the rail-
road arrangements were concerned.
Railroad executives who have rep
resented all their associates in nego-
tiating over Saturday and Sunday
with President Harding and railroad
strike left Washington convinced
that the present strike would be-
fought out to finish.
The executives further indicated,
through an authorized spokesman,
that they expected the government
would not attempt futher compro-
mise in the situation and make pub
lie the text of their answer to Pres
ident Harding's final settlement
proposal.
Union leaders, however, declared
that mediation and compromise ef-
forts would still be continued with
officials of the four brotherhoods or
tran service men acting as a COM
mittee to go between the striking
shop craft representatives on the
one hand and the government or the
railroads on the other.
Twelve hundred trainmen, mem