Uih OMAHA tftfc.: TUKSUAY. JULY 4. 1022.
Strikers Denied
Permit to Parade
in Council Bluffs
Mayor Zurmuehlen Refute
I'nioni Permission to Stage
Demonstration on Fourth
of July Morning.
Plans for a huge street parade of
inc i-tju railroad employes who are
on ttrike in Council Hlufls were
checked yesterday afternoon when
Mayor U urmuehlrn rrfued per
mission (or the demonstration, which
the strikers planned la stage thi
morning.
Chief developments yesterday in
In strike situation at Council Ulufis
ere the walkout of all oilers and
stationary liremen at the Northwest
ern yard, the dimual of two (ireat
Western and one Milwaukee switch
man for refuting to perform the
duties of striken in addition to their
own and a mas meeting at the labor
liatl, addressed by T. J. Conboy,
American Federation of Labor or
ganiter from Washington, D. C,
The oilers and firemen who (truck
yesterday are not members of the
Federated Shop Crafts union origi
nally involved in the strike. Fifty,
five of them threw dowjt their tools,
constituting a 100 per cent strike.
Several of them registered at strike
headquarters and many attended the
meeting yesterday afternoon.
The three switchmen who say they
were dismissed alleged that they
were asked to couple air brakes and
that they refused to do so because
they had beeji instructed by their
union to not perform any duties reg
ularly performed by strikers.
Conboy, the labor leader who ad
dressed the mass meeting of strikers
yesterday at 138 1-2 West Broad
way, intimated that Council Bluffs
will be one of th? middle western
headquarters for the six crafts of rail
road workers now yi strike. The
meeting was held behind closed
doors, in accordance with orders
from general strike headquarters.
J. G. Fogle, chairman of the joint
strike committee in Council Bluffs,
yesterday called attention to the fact
that electrical workmen in this com
munity luve 4 m) ptr cent strike
teiord, misleadm. suieiiirnis havmic
trvi made in the press indiratitiu
that the mruihm of this craft had
failed to join in the walkout Saturday
morning,
Say Buying Power of
Wages Still Above 1917
Chicago, i'y 3 The cut of about
$1.15.000,000 in the waxes of some
1200.000 railroad employes, which
became effective at the same time
that a 10 per cent cut in freight
rates amounting to aHout $400,000,
000 went into elfcrt, Mill leaves hour
ly wages measured in actual buying
power above the wages of Decem
ber, 1917, just before government
control, according to figures com
piled by the I'nitcd States railroad
labor board.
Machinists who belong to the
shopcrafts which have gone on strike
were cut 7 cents an hour. They
averaged 77.3 cents and now average
70.3 cents. Iti 1917 the rate was 50.5,
the new hourly rate being 39 per cent,
higher. Cost of living, according to
labor board figures, is 17 per cent
higher than 'n December, 1917. The
board figures the new hourly rate for
machinists 19 per cent greater in real
purchasing power than in December,
1917.
Carmen, cut 9 cents an hour, now
have an average hourly wage of 64.4
cents, as compared with 37.7 cents
an hour in December, 1917, the
board's figures show. This repre
sents a net increase of 71 per cent
in cash and an advance of 45.7 per
rent in actual purchasing power of
the hourly wage, the board maintains.
By a similar mathematical process.
the wage increase for machinists is
figured as 7 per cent.
1 he sia5.UU0.000 wage cut made
effective July 1 is divided as follows:
Clerical and station forces. $24.-
336.317.
Maintenance of way, structural and
unskilled forces, $48,898,893.
Shop employes, $59,669,347.
Stationary engine and boiler room
employes, $551,954.
signal deparment emplovcs,
$1,532,428.
Strikers Charge
Railroad Labor
Board Partial
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Acni-atiort Made al Macs
Meeting of Shopmen in
Omaha Union Temple
Picket. Placet!.
Striking kliopmeu of Omaha and
South Umaha packed Labor temple
here yesterday morning at the first
mass meeting held since the walkout
Saturday morning.
Rows of automobiles lined the curb
for a block on each side of Labor
temple during the meeting. Cheers
and prolonged applause rewarded
speakers.
Urges Government Ownership.
Thomas J. Conboy, general organ
izer of the American Federation of
Labor, Washington, D. C, the prin
cipal speaker, advocated government
ownership and control of railroads
as a substitute for the Esch-Cummins,
bill.
Conboy charged that the only legal
decisions which the railway labor
board has been permitted to make
have been against the railway work
ers and beneficial to railroad mag
nates, either directly or indirectly.
"The transportation act has de
stroyed the plan of volunteer agree
ments," continued Conboy. "Presi
dent Harding called President Jewell
to Washington to inform him that he
had to go. No investigation was
made into the justice of the agree
ment." Conboy criticized the labor editor
ial appearing yesterday in The Oma
ha Bee and advised the men to go in
a body to the court house and change
their registrations so they could
"vote for their friends."
No violence was reported at
roundhouses or shops in Omaha this
morning. Pickets were on duty
about a block from the Cass street,
entrance to the Union Pacific shops
but said, when questioned, that "no
one has tried to get in."
Switchmen Discharged.
i lie ureat western railroad in
Council Bluffs discharged two
switchmen and the Milwaukee took
iimjlar aliou in
fiual to couple air
the duty of carmen
fording to J. C. Fogle. chairman of
the six federated shopcralti on strike
there.
J. C. Shafer, acting chief of police
in Council Bluffs, announced that 100
extra ollucrs are to be placed on the
lorce in an emergency.
II.
one ae for re-1 O
brakes, held to be , U)mi)tTS btOTCS
mi on strike, a- I
Outlaw" Order
of Labor Board
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SECOND FIXDR-BROWN BLOCK - 16TH. ANDDOtJGL'AS
K. Gates chairman of the ! I fl.l-f 1 1.. . I ...... i
Omaha strike committee, stated that i "
"there aren't a many men going into
the shops Monday morning at came
out Saturday night." Ife said, by way
of explanation, that some men who
failed to respond to the call Satur
day morning left the shops Satur
day night expressing the intention of
staying out until the cjid of the
strike.
Claim 97 per cent Out.
Officials of Union Pacific federa
tion No. 10S still were unable to give
definite figures, hut reiterated the
claim that more than 97 per rent of
the shopmen on the Union Pacific
system had quit, either Saturday
morning or Saturday night.
W. II. Guild, assistant to the
president in charge of operation of
the Union Pacific system, said not
more than 75 per cent quit on the
system, although possibly K(l per
cent lutd quit on the Union Pacific
railroad proper.
"We haven't decided as yet about
bringing in men to replace those
who have quit," said Guild. "We
are suffering no delays and have o
reports of violence or property de
struction." Carl Gray, president of the Union
Pacific system, and W. M. Jcffers,
general manager, were reported to
be out on the lines yesterday morn
ing.
Scarcity Claimed.
H. E. Dickerson, general superin
tendent of Northwestern lines west
of the Missouri, said there were
enough men, with the aid of foremen
and assistant foremen, to keep things
moving in North and South Omaha
roundhouses of that line for the
present." He said he was not con
sidering bringing in strikebreakers at
present.
Asked if the Northwestern could
continue to operate on its present
basis indefinitely, Mr. Dickerson said
he did not know.
Union officials say there was
scarcity of maintenance of equipment
employes before the strike, due to
the increase in building. A number
of men who left the shops here al
ready have found jobs as carpenters,
it was stated.
Silent on Benefits.
No mention of strike benefits was
made at the meeting in Omaha yes
terday morning. Shopcraft officials,
questioned about the money in the
organization, would only say, "There
won't be any of the strikers go hun
gry." One official added, however, that
there "was plenty of money to see
the thing through, ajid it's where it
can't be tied up."
N. C. Allen, superintendent of the
Omaha division of the Burlington,
reported yesterday morning that
"everything is moving on time."
Only about 75 per cent or our
shopmen went out in the Omaha
terminal, which includes . round
houses at South Omaha and Gib
son, said Mr. Allen. We are
working a 12-hour shift at the Gib
son roundhouse. A total of about
125 men are working there.
Roundhouse Closed.
"We have closed our South Omaha
roundhouse, however. Before the
strike we worTted three shifts with
350 men to a shift at the Gibson and
South Omaha roundhouses and rip
tracks. Twenty-four men stayed in
at our passenger terminal out of 74.
borne roundhouse laborers went out
with the shopmen. Track and bridge
men stayed in."
Mr. Allen and C. L. Gray, chief
clerk to the general manager of lines
west, both said that with the assist
ance of foremen, roadmasters, etc.,
they had avoided any delays.
"Nobody Will Starve,"
Say Rail Executives
New York, July 3. Asserting
"that nobody will starve and nobody
will freeze" even though the strike
of shopcraft workers should con
tinue until October, the season of
heaviest traffic, officials of the Amer
ican Association of Railway Execu
tives today announced they would
maintain a "hands off" policy, leav
ing each road to extricate itself from
the strike.
This policy would not be altered
if maintenance of way men should
join to shopcraft unions, it was de
clared. With 4,M)U locomotives ana
more than 100,000 cars in reserve,
association chiefs asserted that "the
situation could not possibly become
as acute as the ie which prevailed
as acute as the switchmen's strike
1920. when all equipment was in a
diplapidated condition.
Maintenance of way men are
nearly 100 per cent unskilled, it was
declared. Recruits to take the jobs
of the 230,000 union men, con-
temDlatint; a strike could be re
cruited from the "floating army of
unemployed."
The Eastern Railway Managers
association, with E. M. Rine vice
president of the Lackawanna presid
ing, met this afternoon to survey the
strike situation and to prepare to
cope with a possible walkout of the
maintainance unions.
Apainst Strikers "Utterly
lioMirt ik in Character"
ami Wrong in Principle.
Wahi,'iKton, July J, The ruling
of the t luted Stairs Ubor board
"outlawing" the railroad unions now
oil strike was denounced by Samuel
(loniprrs, president of the American
Federation of Labor, in a statement
issued tonight, as "utterly boMievik
in eluractci," und an attempt by the
board "to disband tuiinn at will."
The ruling, Mr. Gotiiticr added, was
palpably "too ridiculous and fatuous
to be accepted as permanent Ameri
can government policy."
"The action of the board," Mr
Uomprrs statement continued, "is
exactly a replica of the actioji of
the communists in turning the union
into government controlled agencies
tor the carrying out of the orders
ot the state, hreedom of cxprei
sion vanishes under the order of the
board.
"But I say now that the workers of
America, either ott the railroads or
elsewhere, do not intend to sacrifice
freedom of expression and of action
The board undertakes to say that
unions which differ with the hoard
must cease to exist they are 'out
lawed.
Principle Wrong.
Whether this is for the moment
an assumption of authority on the
part of the board is immaterial. It
is the logical outcome of the virtual
ly establishment of such board. It
is the inevitable consequence of an in
itial action that was wrong in prin
ciplc and that has proven impossi
ble in action.
the railroad labor board, as an
institution, functioning in the 20th
ce.ntury, is second in incongruity
only to the so-called 'open shop'
movement.
"The law gives the worker or the
railroads the ngnt to decline to ac
cept the board's rulings. The work
ers, of necessity, declined and by
vote of the membership, withdrew
their services. They declined to work
ior the terms ordered by the board.
The board now declares them 'outlawed.'
ihis is autocracy with a ven
geance. It steks to put the whole
force of government back of the
movement to kill the spirit and the
fact of collective bargaining, of joint
negotiation and agreement by the
voluntary coming together of work
ers and employers. It is the calam
itous outgrowth of a mistaken idea.
Freedom Rooted in Soil.
"Unions cannot be unmade and re
made at government dictation. This
is neither the Russia of the black
autocrat nor of the red autocrat. This
is America, where the principle of
voluntary action, of conference and
agreement, of freedom of expression
and of lawful action is rooted in our
soil and grown into our institutions.
The unions exist for humanity, for
the workers, and they cannot and
will not be destroyed at the whim or
lancv of a hand nf dictators. v
I ask whether the board ordered
the directorate of the Pennsylvania
railorad dissolved and a new amena
ble board created when that railroad
refused to obey the orders of the
board. Of course it did not, nor will
it in any such case. The railroad
labor board is seeking to perpetuate
what it believes to be the existing
dominant economic condition. But
the board is mistaken in its analysis
of modern trends and fundamental.
It would have been equally as fitting
and equally as ridiculous for the
board to order the dissolution of rail
road directorates where such direct
orates refused to obey the orders of
the board.
"If anything could have been cal
culated to inspire the workers with
determination to win a victory for
democratic methods and for justice
in their employment, this action of
the board will have that result, un
necessary though it be."
Train Service Impaired.
Knoxville. Tenn., July 3. Advices
of the first impairment of train serv
ice reported locally as a result of the
walkout of railwav employes come
from Corbin, Ky., last night, where
was said lack of motive equip
ments has forestalled the movement
of 2,400 cars of coal in the yards. At
least one passenger train was delayed
for more than an hour, it was learned.
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Strike of Maintenance
of Way Men Is Deferred
tlaatlau'd I'. On t
was expressed that the gap would
be bridged without a strike.
Meanwhile conflicting claims con
tinued regarding the number of men
involved in the walkout of the shop
men. Neither the union leaders or
the railway managers would give
any figures, but B. M. Jewell reiter
ated previous ftairmenU that the
strike vs practically 1 1 Hr per cent.
The railway executives, on the
other hand, ilerlated that traltic was
bring continued practically without
interruption and repeated their as
sertions that the efficiency of the
road would not be srrimMy impaired
by the walkout for several weeks
and perhaps month?. New workers
were bring recruited to take the
places of the strikers and the opin
ion of the rail head was unanimous
that there would be no interruption
of transportation.
Asks Regarding Work.
During the dav the board received
an iiuuiry from W. II. O'Neil, presi
dent of the International Association
of Railroad Supervisor? of Mechanics,
who asked what his men should do
if called upon to perform the duties
of shopmen. Mr. Hooper, in a let
ter replied:
"The board is of the opinion that
the members of your organization
should not be required by the car
riers with whom you have agree
ments to perform duties other than
the supervisor work as within the
scope of your duties unless such per
formance is purely voluntary."
The third day of the' shopmen's
strike passed in comparative quiet
although a slight disturbance was re
ported at Perry, la., where 20 la
borers, brought in from Chicago for
shop work, were stoned and run out
of town. C. E. Johnson, general
manager of the Kansas City South
ern, reported to the labor board dur-
I iug the day that one nf In assist.
ants had tirrii a4ti!inl hy ttnxc
sympathizer at l.rrsville, La., whiU'
repaiiing an air hose.
Painter Sre 'German Victory'
in Harding Chemical Note
Siraudsbm. Fa.. July J. A.
Mitchell Calmer, attorney general
and alien property custodian under
I'reiidrut WiKon. in a formal state
ment last night said if the patents,
trade marks and other property
transferred to the Chciiur.it founda
tion, Inc., during the Wilson admin
istration were returned to the ov
eminent, as demanded hv President
Harding, America would again "be
at the mercy of the German dye
trust." lie characterized "the gov
ernment attack" in the chemical in
dustry as the greatest victory Ger
many had won since 1'crshing turned
hack their legions at Chateau
Thierry.
I 'aimer's statement in part says:
'"It these patent are recovered
from the Chemical Foundation they
cannot be again sold to American
citizens and the inevitable next step
will be a return to their former tier
man owners. We will then be back
to the old days when we were at the
absolute mercy of the German dye
trust.
"These patents were seized by the
alien property custodian under the
authority of the trading with the
enemy act. We had no means of de
termining their actual money value.
If we had sold them to private in
terests, we might have sold them for
less than their value and got nothing
but a new American monopoly to
take the place of the German trust."
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Hudson Motor Car Company
The Hudson Motor Car company
announces price reductions on the fol
lowing models of Hudson and Essex
cars, effective July 1: Hudson speed
ster, old price $1,695. new price
$1,645; Hudson s even -passenger
phaeton, old pint f 1 .745. nru pru'
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Koy I). Cliapin, piesident of the
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shipments is now so great that cr
tun savings lave been effected ui
costs and the public i to he given
the benefit. I'ro.lu.tion (or June
tmaU over 6,3( Hudson and Essex
cars, and July shipments are expected
to surpass these ngtirrs.
Havelock Shopmen
Hold Mass Meeting
Lincoln, July 1-A mw mcM
iug of Ilurlington railroad, rlk
ing shopmen, with members of their
families, to the number of 2.000, was
held at Havelock, near Lincoln, yes
terdav, pre-idcd over bv Michael
Kincrta, general chairman of the
Chicago, Ilurlington and Quincy ma
chinist!.' organization. An address
was nude bv William llannou of
Washington. 1. C a member of the
executive board of the International
Association of Machinists. He coun
seled against violence or disorder of
any kind and said that if the strikers
were patient and did not forfeit pub
lic good will their success was as
gure.t "Keep up your picket duty
and siav out of the shops, he said.
Oflicials of the shopmen a organ
ization said this evening there was
no change in the local situation.
Jan Troops Quit Hankow.
London, July 3.-A dispatch from
Hankow received here today says:
"The Japanese garrison, consist-ii-g
of a battalion with detachments
ot special troops evacuated Sunday.
The troops have been maintained
in recent years for the protection ot
foreign interests, the same as tne
foreign garrison in Tientsin and
Pekin."
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