New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-04
Labor, Here MAY
Offer Slaop1lle1l
Concerted Aid
Action Is Expected To Be
Taken at Meeting Tues
day Night; Injunction
Ii Reason for the Move
Dowd Invited TO Speak
Strikers Insist They Will
Continue the Fight Until
the Lenders Call for Halt


Ing railroad shopcrafts workers by all
local unions affiliated with the Amer
lean Federation of Labor is expected
to follow the meeting on Tuesday
night of the executive committee of
the Central Trades and Labor Council.
John J.. Dowd, chairman of the Central
Strike Committee of the shopmen, has
been invited to discuss the situation
before the executive COMMITTEES meet
ing.
Consideration Of proposal to aid
the railroad strikers by the affiliated
unions comes as an effect Of the in
junction granted on Attorney General
Daugherty's application in the Federal
Court in Chicago on Friday by which
it was sought to halt the strike nc
tivities of the shopcrafts unions This
is not the only offer Of assistance
which has como to the strikers since
the granting of the injunction, accord
ing to MIR. Dowd. Since Friday many
organizations and individuals, some OF
them outside the ranks Of union labor,
have offered help in some form.
See Injunction as Possible Help
There have been so many offers Of
this sort that the strike leaders are
beginning to look on the injunction as
not altogether unmixed evil even
though 1t does prohibit the holding of
meetings, bans picketing and enjoins
practically all strike activity. Mr..
Dowd said yesterday that it had
brought support to the shopmen from
individuals and organizations which
could have been obtained in no other
way. The reticenca of the railroad
executives, their unwillingness to dis.
cuss the injunction or the situation
which 1t creates Mr.. Dowd urged as
proof that they were not overpleased
with the Administration move either.
This view was borne out in some
measure by what little comment was
heard in railroad circles. 1t was said
that tho railroads now found them
selves in position which practically
tied their hands as regards the strike.
To continue the issuance and publica-
ton of figures on the number of new
men employed to replace strikers, on
the number Of freight cars loaded and
handled or the percentage of repairs
made, all OF which showed improve 4
ment, would make an issue of the
situation as pictured by Attorney Cen
eral Daugherty In his application for
the injunction. Additional reports
showing further improvements were to
nave been issued within few DAYS. II
was said, but have been temporarily
abandoned.
Abandon Separate Agreements
An attempt also was to have been
MADE, 1t was learned, to encourage the
making OF separate agreements be-
tween individual railroads and local
strike organizations. These plans have
been abandoned.
AS for the injunction itself and it's
erect on the conduct of the local strike
situation: Mr.. Dowd reiterated the de-
termination of local leaders to con-
tinua meetings and the picketing Of
shops until ordered to stop by the in
ternational officers of the union. No
copies have yet been served on local
union officials and it seems likely now
that court fight will be made when
the Federal authorities make such
service. The report from Omaha. Neb..
that Federal judge had held the In
Junction imperative outside the iuris-
diction Of the Chicago court which
granted 1t excited considerable interest
here.
Complicated by Coal Peace
The settlement of the anthracite coal
strike was hailed by the strikers as an
added difficulty for the RAILROADS. MIR.
Dowd pointed out that tho Southern
coal roads, Immediately on the resump-
ton of bituminous mining, had been
forcbd TO appeal for help in replacing
striking shopmen so that the coal
could be moved and forecast a similar
appeal from the anthracite carving
roads as soon as mining is resumed. At
the time of the appeal Of the Southern
roads many of the trunk lines pooled
their shop forces and sent them to help
keep coal carrying equipment in repair.
It Will be Increasingly difficult for the
trunk lines to render the same service
to the hard coal carriers, Mr.. Dowd
said.
Before leaving for Iehighton. Pa,
where he will make a Labor Dav adj
dress, David Williams, secretary of
the central strike committee, an
nounced report from the Labor Bu-
reau. Union Square, on the financial
situation Of the railroads az a result
OF the strike. The first two months of
the strike, according to the report, will
result in q charge against the rail
roads of 26,500,000 in deferred re-
pairs. The increased net earnings re-
ported by the railroads for July are
more than wiped out by this item.
The bankruptcy of the Chicago g. AL
ton, the report states, was caused in
part by the strike expenses.
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