Norwich bulletin., 1922-06-30
ISTERvENTIoS BY THE GOVT.
 LOOMS UP AS FINAL HOPE

Chicago. June 2s CBy the A. P.)-In- ,ervention by the federal government un- der the authority of the transportation act created 10 maintain the orderly s>srso Of the nations transportation ar .eries. ioOmed tonight as the final hope af averting the threatened rail strike of 100000 shopmen. and possibly half a million more railroad workers.
 Their ultimatum 10 the railway execu- lives rejected. chief executives of the nK shop crafts unions. which have call d a strike for 10 o'clock Saturday morning and tho leaders of four other anions now polling a strike vote. pre- cared tonight to answer the summons of he United States railroad labor board 70 appear in a federal investigation to- norrow afternoon at o'clock.
 With the union heads were summoned he executives of twenty-three railroads, ihzrged by the employees with illegally contracting shop work in violation of he bcard's orders. one of the three questions on which the shopmen have seen casting strike ballots for the last wo weeks. Other railway executives of he 201 Class 1 roads in the country tlsc-we asked by the board to be present.
 Developments of the strike situation
 
 sonal presidents of the six shop unions innounoed teiegrams authorizing their nembership Co walk out Saturday morn ag.
 The labor board immediately recog- lzed a threatened interruption of traf- .c. and acting under the authority of he transportation act. issued a citation tke strike leaders to come before 1t or olicial inquiry.
 The Association of Railway Execu- ives. meeting here on other matters, considered and rejected the union pro- ,osal Of a truce pending negotiations sver wages and working conditions.
 The executives declared that strike you'd be against the orders of the la- Dor board and against the United States government. and thus Ebsolved them- ielves from further responsibility to the present situation.
 There ls little likelihood. officials said that any conference could be arranged to mend tte t.de-ences of the em- sloyer and --, .3ads and most of the execusiYss c t--t.d toniGh1, Esscu- tlves of o..ig O. ot the % roads cited to appear were present at today's meeting but ail are expected 10 appear before he board tomorrow.
 The July 1, s6G,0oo 900 wage cut and the modification of seven rules were the two questions involved in the shopmen's strike vote. which are conditions laid down by the labor board, according tc lhe carriers position. Defiance of those orders by the roads would be to recog nlze your power and authority as great. CT than that of the government" said ths ex,cuuves' reply to the union ulti natum.
 The reply was directed to B. M Jew on. president of the Railway employees department of the American Federation f Labor of which all ten unions wht hreatcn to walk out are members.
 Statement By Hooper.
 Ben W. Hooper. chairman of the la DOT board, who was credited with hay nr taken the leadership in averting threatened railway strike last October tonight issued a statement declaring hat "it Is evident to every student O Inc situation that the railway labor or fanizations have no just cause for SC rious complaint at the treatment the. nave received at the hands of the fed ral wage tribunals during the war pc -od and since" The statement follows
 The peopfs of the United States ar lick and tired of having railway trans sortation and traffic periodically inter Funffu 0N GnuLtNeEaleS DtlMten TdliN d, nanagements and employees. It was thi ceiling which moved congress to enac he transportation act of 1920.
 'sThe right to strike and tie up privat business Is quite a different thing iron my supposed right to choke and ob tr71ct the flow Of interstate commerc n this vast continental nation. Railwa, transportation Is not a private business t is essential 10 the very existence o ,u- republic ahd to the individual well being of every citizen.
 .sr do not hesitate to make the predic aon that never again will there be vucuessful railroad strike of any con siderable proportions of importance Ii his country. The people will not stan for it.
 Must Be Peace on Railroads.
 There must be peace on the railroads This cannot be obtaired by leaving tn carriers free 10 impose unjust condi lions Ipon the employees. or by permit ling the employ as by organizations, how ever powerful. to impose unfair condi tions upon the carriers and unbearabl burdens upon the public.
 "Any tribunal having a jurisdictio. similar to that of the railroad labo beard VII make mistakes, but the fac