The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21
Threatened Walk Out of Nine
 Rail BrotherhoodS Played By Labor Board Chairman
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(C0ntinued From Page Onc.) pointed out that this low paid class of common labor in 1915 received by IS cents an hour and in 1917 1s.s cents. increase of 11S and 6s.4 per cent, respectively The average pay of the section hand, the chairman added, will, under the July reduc- ton, still be 119.7 per cent higher than in 1915.
 Wages for other employees. also, he added. were "very considerably larger" than In 1917 or in 1915.
 How To Win Favor
 Surely the leaders of these railway 1ebor organizations cannot expect to win the approval of the people of the United States by a rigid, unyield- ing resistance to the inevitable pro- cess of readjustment which has been in progress for the past year." the letter continued. "If the public is satisfied that the railway employees have been even more than fairly dealt with, by comparison with simi- lar labor and in view of the condi- tons surrounding their work there will be no demand that they shall be treated as absolutely immune from the operation of the economic processes through which everybody else must pass.
 "The fact cannot be overlooked that the policy of the leaders of the employees seems to be to accept no reduction, however slight"
 The letter concluded by citing the case of the stationary firemen and oilers, who are now taking strike vote, and whose pay was reduced two cents an hour. Their wages would still be 100 to 1899 per cent over those of 1915. the letter said. Ian enormous increase over tho com pensation they received before the war. And yet there is submitted to them a strike ballot"
 By Associated Press
 Cincinnati, June 20.--Joint strike action between railroad workers and striking coal miners was discussed tonight at conference of John L. Lewis. let z er In the coal strike, with chiefs of the rail unions. which are threatened to walk out next month in protest against wage reductions. The conference ended without any announcement whether definite plans had been agreed on by the leaders of the two groups.
 When the meeting broke up, con- ferees declared they had agreed on a policy of silence, which was main tained. except for the issuance of a joint statement by B. M. Jewell, president of the Railway Employees department of the American Fedora ton of Labor, and Mir. Lewis indicat- ing what they termed the necessity of a railroad strike and discussing abstractly the present industrial situation.
 Further meetings, 1t was said, are planned by the union leaders and it was learned authoritatiyely that their conference had indicated an inn possibility of final agreement in strike plans until after the canvass of the strike vote that Is now being cast by the rail workers, whose wages are to be reduced on July 1.
 After the conference. Mss Jewell went into conference with a number of lawyers with whom he had also met earlier in the day.
 In the joint statement of Mfr. Jewell and MT. Lewis, 1t was assert ed that both the miners and the rail- road mon had mo alternative, but to strike" and that "all attempts at peaceable and orderly adjustments have been fruitless."