Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-07-14
Keep a Close Watch But Are Quiet and
Law Adding in All Things
Expectation of Union Leaders More Than ReaIized---
Fine Spirit and Good Order Reported at All
Points; company Union" Myth
Fails to MateriaI|ze

Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and
charged that the railroad was i'm
porting inferior labor to take place
of skilled men.
Mr.. Schaefer said that the men re-
sented the statement issued to the
press this week by Daniel Willard, in
which he said the Baltimore and Ohio
had always dealt fairly with the men.
Mr.. Schaefer said the Baltimore and
Ohio was guilty of having "farmed
out" repairs to equipment in the past.
The Baltimore and Ohio is import
ing negroes and inferior workmen,
Mr.. Schaefer said, and many of these
men have been hired by labor agents
in New York who tell them that there
is no strike on and that if they 60 to
West Virginia they can make SIS and
$25 day, he said.
The speaker charged that the Unit
ed States Railroad Labor Board had
made an unjust decision dealing in re-
ductions in pay and suspending GER
tain rules of agreement in effect on
the railroads for number of years
and the farming out of repair ork
on equipment to outside industries.
Chicago-Non-union railway shop
men are joining the movement to en-
force American living standards
against the U. S. rail labor board,
kilograms to B. M. Jewell, president,
railway employees department, A. T.
of L., show. At Cloverford, Kr., ON
the Louisville, Henderson and st.
Louis railroad, unorganized workers
are reported out in sympathy with the
100000 organized shop men. Similar
reports are received from many other
Eoirts. Foremen of the Southern rail
way left with the men at Spencer,
N. c., and Columbia, S. C. I.abolers
and others quit with all the shop men
in the Milwaukee road shops ut Miles
City, Mont. Shop crafts responded
100 per cent on most OF the roads.
Cole red helpers joined the struggle
on the Louisiana & Arkansas.
Maintenance of way men continue
to demonstrate sympathy with the
shop men by walking out despite in
definite postponement of strike orders
by President E. F. Cradle. San Ber-
nardino, CAL, an important rail center
in the southern part of the state, re-
ports maintenance men out there on
the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific.
San Francisco-Interacial solidarity
was evidenced in the walk-out of rail-
way shop men here when Japanese
engine wipers walked out with the
white workers in the Southern Pacific
shops. At Roseville Chinese railroad
laborers joined the strike.
Chicago-Interferen by company
guards with union pickets brought
clashes in various districts where AGO.
900 railway shop men are demanding
living standards.
Violence of every SOFT is forbidden
by the union officials. "Disorderly
acts and violence are acts of hostility
to the union cause" declared John
Scott, secretary, railway employees
department, A. F. of l.. "Our circular
warns members that there are ire
sponsible persons, not members of our
unions, who engage in disorderly act
witty which is then attributed to the
organization. Members are directed
| not to associate with these elements
except to dissuade them from their
unlawful conduct"
Reports received by B. VI. Jewell
breathe continued optimism. Non
| Union men are cooperating in the
walkout on the Illinois Central at
every point, the system chairmen of
the men wired. Maintenance of way
men quit at Iogansport, Ind, in great
Numbers.
Strikebreakers in western Mary
land, in Illinois and Missouri threw
down their tools when they discovered
they were expected to scab on the
union men. They had been misled IS
to the work, they declared.
International officers of the six big
unions report that the walkout in
stead of dwindling after July 4, as
predicted by rail executives, is grow
ing. ]. F. Valentine, president of .he
Molders Union, has sanctioned the
strike Of $500 molders employed on
the railroads and his executive council
has ordered payment of strike bene-
fits.
The womens' auxiliary organiza-
tions of the shop crafts, outnumbering
the 100000 actual union members,
have wired that they also are "out
100 per cent" Details indicate that
the women are "out" visiting wives
of strike breakers and explaining the
position of the union men. They are
also engaged in relief and entertain
ment activities.