Evening star., 1922-09-03
EASTERN ROADS
FACE REAL TEST
Labor Day Travel Presents
Hardest Task of Strike
Period.
INJUNCTION is SCORED
Strike Committee Secretary Bitter
ly Assails Action Of Railroads
Chief Attorney

Ry the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September East
ern railroads tonight faced the
hardest task meeting them since the
rail strike was called-handling
Labor day travel
Preparations to meet this rush ana
the issuance of a letter of lnStruc-
tions by local strike leaders assail-
ing the Harding administration for
the injunction proceedings instituted
Yesterday in Chicago and describing
them as a breeder of anarchy, oc-
cupied chief attention today. After
checking up on their rolling stock
and posting extra guards on their
properties the roads professed them
selves confident of handling travellers
without undue inconvenience.
From labor quarters came adFlce
to travellers, warning against the
condition of cars and locomotives ana
predicting inconvenience. Al the
same time. strikers We're urged py
their leaders above all things TO Keep
their heads and not resort TO violence
The New York Central. Erie, Lack :
awanna and Pennsylvania roads an
nounced they would keep full forces
on in all shops. SO that If anythins
happened to rolling stock II couio DC
quickly repaired.
At the Erie yard at Port Jervls.
Y. Y. special details were ordered
Yesterday to all four gates. Ihey
will remain on guard night ma day
until after the Labor day rush Is over
Strike Not Broken.
In making public a letter of iE-
structions to striking shopmen' III
which they were urged TO call upon
other labor organizations for hnan-
cial aid to keep their babes from
starving. David Williams, secretary
of the strike committee for this DIS
trict, said:
The only comment l care to make
today is that the strike is not broken
1t is still on and We are still on the
lob The morale of the strikers re-
mains unbroken."
The letter, referring to the govern
ment injunction, said:
The Injunction At the request oil
our republican Attorney General mas
ordered your international officers 10
stop sending any relief funds to feed
YOUR needy families and their suffer
ing children.
Instructed to Obey LAW.
we have instructed you in the
past to obey the law and not adopt
violence in your struggle for Justice
We know the provocation you had TO
submit to. suffering persecution
through the violations of 104 deci-
sions of the Railroad Labor Board by
twenty-five different railroad COM
panies We know your final refusal
TO work under these conditions on
July / was entirely legal ana that no
republican tool of the railroads has
fusal to work under these c0nditioIs
when it comes to seeing your
babies suffer and starve for want of
food. that is an entirely different
subject. Local relief committees
should continue to solicit funds to
feed the needy cases. Temporarily.
at least, we can expects no relief
from our internationals II the funds
of these organizations, as stated In
the press. have been tied up. The
an elected representative of the re-
-tttorney General a railroad tool
who can starve your family because
YOU will not become slave OF
railroad company Our advice is to
feed your families.
Appeal to All LAHORE
appeal to all members of organ
i3ed labor. In all meetings held ex-
plain carefully to your members the
admission CT the present administra-
1jon to its position of breaking up
the unions. and advise all on strike
TO prepare to clean this rotten ad-
noinistration out of Office for all time.
Action of the kind taken by the
Daugherty, is the best anarchist
chief attorney for the railroads, Mr..
breeder that could be found. Do not
lose your heads in this crisis, but re-
solve to fight all the harder for your
rights.
Your fight is won with the skilled
men out of the railroad shops. The
cpnglomeration of unskilled men
hired by the railroads is only an
expense with no return to the stock
holders, and the injunction issued is
TO assist the railroads in starving
you back to work.
Tell all men on strike that when
they see their children suffering for
food. through lack of proper relief
70 remember 1t is the work of the
republicans at Washington. Tell
them to double their efforts to secure
fpod for these children. Have all
YOUR committees continue this work,
and il we must stop feeding our
families 1t will only be done after
the republicans have gone the limit
and forcibly stopped us by locking
US up where the government will
have to feed us.
Above all things, keep your heads
and do not resort to violence
Absolutely no official comment was
forthcoming from executives regard
ing the injunction, which they said
yesterday had taken them by eur
prise. This week the executives in
presenting recruiting figures, had
asserted TIE strike had been broken
and predicted their shop forces soon
would be back to normal. 1t was ap-
parent, however, that rail heads were
keeping close observation Of the ef-
feet on their forces of the govern
nient's action.