Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-18 | Page 2 | Business Men of Omaha Protest Against Strike

BUSINESS MEN OF OMAHA PROTEST AGAINST STRIKE OMAHA, March 17. The Businessmen Business-men 's association of Omaha late today adopted resolutions declaring a railroad strike at this time would "be giving aid and comfort to those who are plotting plot-ting against and seeking the rupture of our national life." The association condemns the threatened threat-ened strike as "ill-advised, unpatriotic and subversive of the true interests of the country." The association "pledges itself that in the event said strike is perpetrated it will exert its utmost efforts to preserve pre-serve law and order, so that the men who desire to cxereiso their right and privilege to work may be fully protected protect-ed therein, and so that the cessation of transportation and the injurious results therefrom may be reduced to a minimum." mini-mum." Protest against a railroad strike as an "assault upon our commerce and transportation" trans-portation" was wired President Wilson tonight by the Omaha Commercial club. Support is pledged to the presidont in i his efforts to prevent a strike.