The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-08-03
SENIORITY RIGHTS
ARE ADVOCATED

The following letter from President
Carl X. Gray, president of the IJnior
/ Pacific System, to Vice President n
e. Calvin, is self-explanatory
, For the information of the general
pupllc from whom inquiries have
reached me as well as for the assur-
ance OF our shop employees and those
VINO are entering our service every
DAY and to the end that our former
employees may thoroughly understand
our position, | wish you would com
municate the contents Of this letter To
the public through the press and to all
OF our officials so that the public and
each former employe shall be person
ally advised In regard thereto. Chair.
man Ben w. Hooper, of the u. IS. r
X. Labor Board, July /, 1922, issued
the following statement:
Regardless of any question of the
right OF the men to strike, the men
who take the strikers places are mere
ly accepting the wages and Working
conditions prescribed by government
tribunal and are performing n nuhIic
service. They are not accepting the
wages and working conditions which
an employer is trying to impose. For
this reason public sentiment and full
government power will protect the
men who remain in their positions and
new men who may come in.
subsequently the labor board has
declared that the rules and WORKING
conditions under which the mechanical
forces were working before the strike
are still IN full force and effect. They
cannot be changed except by an agree.
ment between our employees and the
management Of this system. or in
event OF failure 10 reach mutual agree
ment by our employees Not former en-
pioyes' and or the management. ex.
parte or jointly referred the disagree |
ment TO the u. S. r. r. Labor Board
Tor decision, therefore, since our for
mer employees left our service Of their
own free will and accord thereby ceas.
ing 70 be employees Of this system. the
public and those who remMned loyal 10
our service and those who have entered
the service since the strike as well as
those who are entering our emplov
daily, may rest assured that the man.
agement Of this system will use everv
resource at its command to keep faith
With them, and unqualihedly pledges
N@NAA " AAahE tA ENAAicaNtnA OF the
tfike which will in any manner what
ioever deprive them If their rights or
obs which they have gained in accord
lnee with our shop crafts agreement
md the declaration Of the labor board.
The only way that any one Of our for ,
ner employees may enter ourfservice is
Is new employe and the opportunity
o even thus enter the service Is grow ,
ng less day by day owing to the fact !
hat our forces are rapidly increasing.
The public viii keep IN mind that this /.
trlke is not against this railroad sys- :
en-, but that il is against the decision !
4 an agency Of our government. there !
ore, the strike simply resolves itself I
nto tie question whether the orderly !
'rocesses Of law ard order shall pre- !
al on the arbitrary action Of q very \
mail minority. To that question there I
sn be but one answer. We are q law 4
biding people. the orderly processes =
the law shall prevail. The manage H
lent Of this System has religiously, az :
j times, kept faith with its employees !.
oth es 20 its spoken and written word
nd i always viii. i"