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Newspaper Page TextTHE MORNING OREGOXIAX, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1922 RAIL STRIKERS LOSE MAINTENANCE OF WAY EMPLOYES HEAD CONFERS WITH HARDING. a FULOPS this Specia Firemen and Oilers Excepted Until 10 A. M. Today. HILL LINES TAKE ACTION RIGHTS WITH 1 CI r .p-i f TU Pension and Seniority Privileges to Be Forfeited, Say Five Railway Presidents. Striking railroad stationary fire men and oilers were offered a final chance to retain their pension and seniority rights i they return- to work by 10 o'cIock today, in a state ment issued by five northwestern railroad presidents yesterday. In the same statement, similar rights were denied other striking rail employes. The statement declared it would be unfair to railroad men who re mained at work, as well as to new employes, to restore seniority to those who walked out at the direc tion of eastern rail unions, it bein admitted that no basic dispute on the northwestern roads existed. The latest pronouncements of railroad heads was, made by the Hill group of lines and was received here yes terday from Ralph Budd, president of the Great Northern railway, by W. F. Turner, president of the Spo kane, Portland & Seattle. It was as follows: Rennme of Situation Given. On July 1. 1922, the railway shopmen went pn strike rather than comply with an order of the United States railroad labor board. On July 17 the stationary firemen and oilers also went on strike, presumably for the saiae reason. The railway companies in the north west went to ffreat pains to learn what grievances the striking employes had against them, and thus delayed for more than two weeks seriously trying to re place their old men with new ones. Finally It was found that the men on strike against the railways of the north west had no grievances that they did not agree could be settled easily, but that they would continue the strike because their national leaders so instructed them, hoping in that way to influence roads in other parts of the country to make settlements as satisfactory as are in ef fect, or were offered in the northwest. In the meantime, the roads of the northwest had been kept in operation by some loyal employes and officers do ing the work of the strikers. Now the places of the striking shopmen are being taken by new men. Railway service is certain to be Impaired to a greater or less extent, but each day more new men are being hired, and eventually normal service will be restored and the shop forces reorganized along the lines of the labor board's orders. j Restoration Is Refused. i It appears that the leaders of the shopmen are now representing that the only difference which stands in the way of a settlement and their return to work, is that of restoring to the men on strike thetT seniority and pension rights, which they forfeited by not returning to work. It is utterly out of the question to con cider restoring seniority and pension rights to these men for the following reasons: The men who remained at work and those who desire to work, have the same right to do so as tnose who left the work had in choosing their action, and com mon justice requires that men who etayed by their positions and those who came to Work, shall be guaranteed their Just reward for that action and shall not be penalized for their loyalty. The question of eenlority, which Is ald to be the only one upon which the railways must agree, is a question which did not exist before July 1, and was created solely by the action of the union leaders, who by their voluntary acts created this issue as late -as Tuesday, the ISth instant. Conferences at End. It should now be clearly understood by the public, by our ex-employes and by those who continue at work and those who have taken the places of the strikers that there are no conferences of any kind now being conduced looking toward set tlement of the strike, that the confer ences failed, not because of disagreement between our men and ourselves, but be cause their leaders refused to allow their return to work until differences with other roads had been settled. That the ex-employes as well as the unions to which they belong, have no standing as such with the various railway companies or with the United States railroad labor board, that the only way for railway employes to engage freely In conferences with the managements and to have in addition all the benefits of the labor board's hearing on disputed points Is for them to become employes of the railway companies. It should also be understood by all concerned that every means will be used to protect fully all who wUh to work. Injunctions have beeiKobtanied from federal courts agaisnt interference with men who want to work. Violations or these injunction orders entail severe penalties. If the United States marshals arc unable to protect our men from vio lation of the Injunctions, local, state and federal authorities may be relied upon. Firemen and Oilers Excepted. Ex-employes who left the service on account of the strike order of the sta tionary firemen and oilers' organization may return to work not later than 10 A. M. Friday, July 21, without forfeiting their seniority and pension rights but any such employes who are given em ployment after that date will rank as new employes. ' .: It should be Thoroughly understood by all that In the present -instance fairness to employes who remain loyally at work and those who have entered the service demands that they be fully protected, and that it is utterly Impossible to con sider penalizing those men and reward ing the strikers, who have no grievance, b'it are engaged in a sympathetic strike and have repeatedly been advised that they must return to work or give up their seniority. W. H. BREMNEH, President the Minneapolis & St. Iouts Railroad company. RALPH BUDD, President Great Northern Railway Co. JAMBS T. CLARK, President Chicago, St. Paul, Minneap olis & Omaha railway. CHARLES DONNELLY. President Northern Pacific Railway Co. G. R. HUNTINGTON, President Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste Marie Railway company. Klectrlc Strike Expected. Additional strength to the strike, locally, was forecast yesterday by union leaders, who anticipate a prob able walkout by substation men em- mm ii i.i -ii t-ir-rmrir-irnni-mrn-iro- irmnuiT - , JAldJ,jLMmmM ' -mdatgajiiM 1 -r- lV- iJ Vhoto Copyngh.1 by Underwood. E. F. Grable (right), bead of maintenance of war railway employes, and Fred L. Felek, counsel, photographed at White House, where, It 1 said, they reasanred the president that the men they represent would not Join the walkout. . X iWeitdoiyt II tampers'aches .oft-nraKlM after city Htj Mm a aoi pvHencsd cirnptr kaowa rongblna it" mass aocv nasolM, atraloa and sprain. But bs know alas how quickly Sloan's Llnlmsnt panaf fataa, aad brines tingling comfort to tn SOrSSt B9UW1SS. ployed on the electric lines of the Southern Pacific and the Spokane, Portland & Seattle railway lines. This was likely to take place, it was said, either at midnight last night or early today. Railroad officials scouted the like lihood of any considerable interrup tion to operation, even should this additional walkout occur. It was said there are between 15 and 20 men in service as sub-station opera tors on the Southern Pacific red electric lines and 22 on the Oregon Electric. Officials of the lines said they would continue operation if the strike were called, as they did not believe it would be complete in any event and other men, they said, would "carry on" even if the worst happened. Strike Xeadera Optimistic. Strike leaders were optimistic yesterday and said they weVe main taining their ranks without sub stantial losses. It was said a num ber of additions had been made to the ranks of Btrikers and the out look was very satisfactory. Strikers established a commissary and employment bureau yesterday at the Labor temple and plans were laid for a long-continued struggle. By means of the employment agency. work will be found for strikers who desire to enter some other employ ment for the time being, and the commissary will supply pickets and others who do not find work. , Fi nancial support from other union organizations will be enlisted, it wag said, so that the strike movement may not be robbed of its strength through lack of funds. i STRIKERS PROTEST SOLDIERS Shopmen of La Grande Opposed to Importation of Troops. LA GRANDE, Or., July 20. (Spe cial.) With the exception of op position expressed in the form of a resolution adopted by the strikers opposing bringing troops in to guard railroad property, the shop men's strike situation continues to be exceedingly quiet here. Rumors circulated here for several days that the O.-W. R. & N. is contemplating replacing its civilian guards with United States troops resulted in the resolution being adopted by the strikers. The company's attitude was strongly condemned in this matter and confidence was expressed in the ability of the sheriff's office and the local police department to han dle the situation in the future as in the past. A state inspector who waa here today announced that all men employed here now as station ary engineers were unlicensed and that an examination would be given tomorrow. All failing to pass will lose the privilege of working. IT WALK OUT IN SYMPATHY The Dalles Brotherhood Quits Job Without National Orders. THE DALLES, Or., July 20. (Spe cial.) Seventeen members of the brotherhood of firemen, oilers and stationary engineers walked out at the local shops this week, in sym pathy with striking members of the shop crafts unions here, it was an nounced today by W. P. Guild, asr sistant division superintendent . in charge here. These men walked out without be ing called by national union heads. Guild said. The force at the local shops now comprises 64 men, and by working overtime is sufficient to keep rolling stock moving, Guild said. The first violence of the strike is said to have taken place this week, when three nonunion workers were attacked by a force of seven or eight men and injured by flying rocks. It is not known If the at tacking force was made up of strik ers, according to Guild. Hoover Has Coal Scheme. I WASHINGTON. D. C, July 20. (By the Associated Press.) Devel opments of plans for stretching out the nation's coal supply, now dwin dling under continued impact of the mine and railroad strikes, was the immediate concern today of federal officials acting in the industrial sit uation. Secretary Hoover announced that within a day or two the inter state commerce commission and the commerce department would put into operation a scheme of diverting to essential transportation lines the coal coming from non-union mines and those that may be opened up In union territory by use of priority orders governing transportation. Des Moines Service Reduced. DES MOINES, July 20. The first reduction in service on the Chicago & Northwestern road . in Iowa, re sulting from the coal and shopmen's strike, will take place tomorrow when four local passenger trains, two operating between Des Moines and Clinton and two between Cedar Rapids and Clinton, will be with drawn. Freight service, it was an nounced, has already been heavily reduced throughout the state. MANY TRAINS CANCELED EFFECT OF STRIKES ON SERV ' ICE IS NOTED. Chicago & Northwestern Takes Off 1 5 Suburban Trains and Curtails Other Lines. . CHICAGO. July 20. Railroads centering in Chicago today can celed a-number of trains . to .-conserve fuel. The Chicago & Northwestern took . off 15 suburban trains, dis continued one Milwaukie train and reduced another to a Saturday only basis. Curtailment of service on branch lines in Illinois, Iowa, Wis consin, Minnesota and the Dakotas was also ordered. The Baltimore & Ohio canceled two trains each way between New Tork and Chicago and dropped a local train to Garrett, Ind. . . i Milwaukee Trains Dropped. MILWAUKEE. Wis., July 20 Several passenger trains in the Mil waukee territory on the Chicago & Northwestern road were discontin ued because of the coal situation, Charles Thompson, general agent, announced. Four trains, between Chicago and Milwaukee, one between Milwaukee and, Green Bay and sev eral on branch lines in Iowa, Min nesota, the Dakotas and northern Wisconsin, as well as a few sub urban trains in and out of Chicago, were withdrawn. it kills pain! Wabash Road Cuts 6 Trains. CINCINNATI, July 20 Superin tendent Bird of the government mail service announced here today that the Wabash railroad has taken off six "important trains," due to the railroad and coal strikes, and that it would considerably slow up the mail service in this division. The trains annulled include three between De troit and St. Louts, three between Toledo and Fort Wayne, six between St. Louis and Decatur. 111. Birmingham Trains Abandoned. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 20. Two passenger trains on the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad between Birmingham and Memphis were abandoned today on account of the shopmen's strike, according to announcement, by officials of the road. SOME LINES SEEK PEACE (Continued From First Page.) Multnomah Camp, No. 77, W. O. W., annual picnic, Crystal Lake park, Sunday, July 23. Everyone in vited. Adv. ... S. & H. green stamps ror casn, Holman Fuel Co., coal and wood. Broadway 6363; 680-21. Adv.. luth has been cut 50 per cent, it was announced. Troops were sent to Hoisington, Kan., and to Rocky Mount, N. C, and Aberdeen. N. C, while original plans to remove troops from Way cross, Ga., were abandoned. Sol diers were also ordered on duty at Concord, N. H. . . -(, ' Disorders were confined largely to flogging of kidnaped workers by strike sympathizers, also two Pennsylvania railroad patrolmen,- a car inspector and a constable were shot south of Bentleyville, Pa. They were on railroad patrol duty. . . Federal courts continued to issue temporary restraining orders and injunctions to protect the roads from interference with property I If quality, purity and Ji J tastiness are desired ft without extravagance, 6 tl our twice-a-week candy f Z. specials, in plain pound J 1 boxes, will satisfy your 1 desires adequately. L OLD FASHION OQ i GUM DROPS. . and employes by strike sympathiz ers. The Pennsylvania secured a restraining order at. East St. Louts and like action was granted the Kansas City Southern railway at Fort Smith, Ark., and permanent Injunctions were granted the Pa cific Fruit Express and Southern Pacific affecting their lines in northern California. The Union Pa cific and Burlington roads secured temporary injunctions at Omaha. STRIKE CONFERENCE FAILS Rail Chiefs Meet With Interstate Commerce Officials. : WASHINGTON, D. C, July 21. (By the Associated Press. )-An ef fort to eettle'the railroad strike at a suddenly-arranged conference of heads of leading railroads and mem bers of the senate interstate com merce committee here late last night and early today was understood to have failed. Those attending the conference said It now appeared that a strike settlement was much more distant and expressed pessimism over the immediate outlook, viewing the coal and railroad strike together. . , Enactment of legislation which might remove difficulties in the way of settling the shopmen's striks was discussed at the conference, which was attended by Chairman Cummins, five railroad executives, who came from New York, and Sen ators Watson of Indiana and Kel logg of Minnesota, both republican members of the senate interstate commerce committee. The meeting began Bhortly after S o'clock and continued until after midnight. The railroad executives refused to dis cuss the subject under discussion and the only intimation was given in a formal statement issued by Sen ator Cummins after the meeting had broken up. The railroad executives who at tended the" conference included T. Dewitt Cuyler of the association of railway executives and W. W. Atter bury of the Pennsylvania. Senator Cummins in his statement said: "Senators Kellogg, Wtson and myself had a conference with some of the eastern railroad presidents this evening for the purpose of talk ing over the strike and ascertaining if possible the exact issues between the roads and the strikers. W wanted to discover whether the was any legislation that would re move the difficulty in the wav of an adjustment. "We discussed the whole situa tion freely and frankly. The views of the shopmen have already been fully disclosed at Chicaeo. The ob ject of the conference was solely to secure information upon this very viiai suDject. Senator Cummins said he would be obliged to decline answering in quiries as to the details of the enn terence but did state, in expressing an opinion as to the outlook for an adjustment of the strike that he was "hopeful to the last." He declared no conclusion had been reached as to what legislation was needed. 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