Evening star., 1943-12-18
Railways Serving DC
Top LIST Mapped for
Progressive Strike
Unions Issue Blueprint
For Wolkouts Slated
To Sturt Dec. 30
BULLETIN.


CLEVELAND Pj.-Railroad
leaders and heads of the five
operating brotherhoods will
meet with President Roose-
welt in Washington tomorrow
in an effort to avert a Nation
wide strike ordered to start
December 80, A. F. Whitney.
president of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen, said
today.
The Pennsylvania Railroad
and Southern Railway, two of
the main arteries of rail travel
serving the Capital, will be
among the carriers on which
workers will 60 out at 6 am. De-
cember 80, the first day of the
contemplated walkout, strike
blueprint" sent to members of
the five operating brotherhoods
showed today.
The strike, which is to be pro-
gressive, will go in effect on the
Chesapeake & Ohio, a Western link
with the Capital, on the second day
while the Baltimore & Ohio. which
like the Pennsylvania is both a
Northern and Western trunk line,
Will be hit on January l. The Sea-
board Air Line will go out the same
day.
The strike program was an
nounced in Cleveland, according to
the Associated Press, which said the
Walkout, which the National Media
ton Board is seeking to head off. is
due to be wholly effective January
z, when all the small lines go out.
First Lines Affected.
Lines to be affected on the first
day are those serving important in
dustrial areas, and, in addition to
the Pennsylvania, they include the
New York Central, the Atchison,
Topeka g. Santa Fe: Canadian Ma
tlonal Lines in New England, the
Central Railroad of New JERSEY,
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy: Den
yer g. Rio Grande Western, Lehigh
Valley, Lehigh g. New England
Norfolk g. Western, Northern Pa
ciflc, Reading, Southern Pacific, the
Vlrglnlan and the Wabash.
Plans cali for extending the work
stoppage on the second day to the
chicago q Eastern Illinois, Chicago
d Northwestern, Delaware & Hud-
son, LackaWana, Erie, Grand Trunk
Western. Great Northern, Gulf Coast
Lines, Illinois Central. Kansas CITY
Southern, Missouri Pacific, Nickel
Plate, New York, New Haven &,
Hartford; Pere Marquette, Texas &
Pacific, Wheeling & Lake Erie and
numerous others.
On January it would extend to
such lines as the Chicago, Great
western; Chicago, Milwaukee, St
Paul & Pacific; Gulf, Mobile & Ohio:
Pittsburgh & West Virginia. St
Louis-San Francisco Railway, Union
Pacific and the Western Pacific.
Wage Award Proposed.
The operating brotherhoods are
planning to strike in protest at a
Accent hourly wage award which a
wage board said was the limit they
could receive under principles laid
down by Sterilization Director
Vlnson in denying an Scent award
TO the incorporating brotherhoods
Ihe administration action in the
latter case has done the Democrats
no damn good and the people are
going to tell them at the next cleo
tlon," George M. Harrison, president
OF the Brotherhood of Railroad and
Steamship Clerks and representative
OF the Incorporating Rail Workers
Committee YESTERDAY
told the House Interstate Commerce
Committee.
He said President Roosevelt was
as surprised as unionists by the ac-
ton OF Mr.. Vinson in multiplying the
wage increase and that Mr.. Vinson's
action came after the President him.
self urged the unions to accept the
0-cent compromise instead of a de.
manded 20-cent hourly increase
The committee, meanwhile. gave
the White House until Monday te
solve the situation, before it vote.
on the Senate-approved bill
through which Congress directly
would approve the wage hike. The
incorporating unions also have
taken a strike vote.
Roosevelt to Talk with Vinson,
Mr.. Roosevelt told his news con-
ference yesterday he intended tc
talk over the situation with Mr.
Vinson.
Mr.. Vinson, in q morning appear