The labor world., 1922-07-15

will encourage and protect strik
Suggests New Unions.
The railroad labor board was quick
to recognize the fact that individuals,
even though they are strikebreakers,
will need an organization to protect
their claims, so new unions" or as
sociations of employees remaining at
work or hereafter joining the serv-
ice of the roads to take the places
OF the striking wokmen. have been
Il recommended.
u Protection for all men remaining
at work or joining any new union or
association that may be formed was
promised in so far as it is in the
power of the labor board to give it.
1t will be fine pic:lings on the rail-
roads for a ore big union if that
conclusion OF the board sticks.
The action taken BY the labor
board practically 'outlaws'' the
American Federation of Labor. the
railway employees department Of
which is directing the shopmens'
strife. Unions which call strikes in
tn. future against the railroad labor
boards decisions are automatically
outlawed and will not he entitled to
any benefits Or privileges accruing
W.der the boards decisions.
They Haven't Lost Much.
The union men feel that they
haven't lost much, for few of them
have enjoyed any "benefits or priv
ileges accruinC undcr the boards de-
Eisions." Every ruling thus far has
been against the employees and in fa-
Ivor of the railroads. Oh yes, there
l were rulings against the roads in
certain instances, but it is not Of
adverse decision.
| The labor boards order is to be
| posted in every railroda shop in the
| United States. Minority members of
! the board, comprising the three
! known as the labor group, refused
! assent to the resolution which is as
follows:
, whereas, in the future, submis-
; sion of disputes involving rules,
i, of the carriers it will be desirable,
: If not a practical necessity, for the
/ employees Of each class on each car
stier to form some sort Of an asso-
1ciation or organiza ton to funcri0n
r Vim the representation of said en-
'ployes before the railroad labor
board. in order that the effective
Eless of the transportation act may
be maintained:
Hints Company "Unions.'
"Now. therefore, be it resolved and
communicated to the carriers and
= communicated to the employees re-
manning in the service and the new
employees succeeding those who have
left the service. to take steps as soon
as practicabl to perfect on each
carrier such organizations as may
be deemed necessary for the pur-
pose above mentioned and,
BE it further resolved that the
employees remaining in the service
and the new ones entering same be
accorded the application and benefit
of the outstanding wage and rules
decisions of the labor board until
they are amended or modified by
agreement with said employees, ar
rived at in conformity with the
this board and,
''}Be it further resolved that if it
be assumed that the employees who
leaTe the service of the carriers be-
cause of their dissatisfa ction with
any decision of the labor board are
within their rights in so doing 1t
nuft likewise be conceded that the
= men who remain in the service and
those who enter anew are within
their rights in accepting such en-
plbyment; that they are not strike
goYeakers seeking to impose the ar
so4trary will Of any employer or en-
Dyes; that they have the moral as
well as the legal right to engage in
such service of the American public
to avoid interruption of indispensa-
HE railroad transportation, and that
zhey- are entitled to the protection
of every department and branch of
,the government. state or national"
,as Jewell Tells Facts.
- Reasons why he did not heed the
Summons Of the United States rail-
way labor board on Friday are given
&by b. M. Jewell head of the shop
men, In a statement received by local
officials of the federated shop crafts.
Mr.. Jewell said that acting in ig-
noring the labor board was due to
he failure of the board to exclude
rom wage reduction hearings al
most 80 roads that had in part or
awholly violated rulings of the gov
4ernment tribunal, which. he said,
has caused railroad employees to re-
kgard the board with no slight mis-
sgiving.
\ Practically all of these s, roads
Eviolated decisions of the labor
hboard," Mr.. Jewell said. Yet they
were included in the wage reduc-
Hon hearings. If the board had ruled
thAt these roads were not entitled to
4rticipate in these hearings, the
respect Of railroad labor for the tri-
.anal would have been increased ma
.eria.y. Railroad labor would then
Al nave looked upon the board as a