Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-06-07 | Page 1 | Strike Ballots Are Sent Forth to Railroaders

STRIKE BALLOTS ARE SENT FORTH TO RAILROADERS General Tieup of Traffic on July 1, a Reiult of Wage Slashes, It an Imminent Possibility, It the Report INDIVIDUAL UNIONS I WILL TAKE VOTES It Is Expected That Thirty Days Will Be Required to Publish Matters and Canvass Can-vass Results of Balloting CINCINNATI, 0. Juno 7 (By A. P.). A triple barreled atrlke vote, calling for a pall of tho 400,000 railway shop-men shop-men of tho country an three aeparate 'questions, waa ordered by tho execu- tivo eounell of the six shop erefts . uniene hero todey. Instructions were sent by B. M. Jewell, heed of the ehop unions, te heedquerrsra in Chicago to expedite tho printing end distribution of tho ballots with all possible epeed. CHICAGO, June 7. Strike ballots returnable Juno 10 went out today to railway employee affected by wage reductions re-ductions ordered by the United States ra llroad lubor board. The vote will l, taken by Individual anlone whose 1. SOU. 000 memhrra are affected In orders either Issued or ' pending. Paralysis of tha nation's railroads on' July 1 loomed aa a possibility aa a result of the reductions, which have I already slashed 1110.000,000 from the ! wagea of the workers. The wiur cut la effective July 1. Meanwhile, the board Is preparing to hear disputes this month between shop era ft a employes and some of the railroads rail-roads ove alleged unauthorised wage rtductlona and piece work. H M. Jewell, Jew-ell, head of the railway employca' department de-partment ol the American Federation of Labor, who la leading the fight against the board's orders, waa Informed In-formed that the flret of the hearings will be held tomorrow. Twenty-one rallroada were oWrd for alias 1 unauthorised un-authorised wage reductions fur the bearing. Hearings on the disputes are er-pecled er-pecled to run 'Into several weeks. 1 It was Indicated today that no wage decision affecting telegraphers, the next class of railway labor to be taken up by the board, will come from the board for eome time, The split In the labor board waa apparently ap-parently widened by the lateat wage reduction, the 140,000.000 slash In the wugi'0 of shop crafts employee. The minority reiKirt by the threo labor rep-reseirliitivee rep-reseirliitivee on the hoard, severely condemning the majority which ordered Iho reductions, was still a topic of discussion dis-cussion tialay and provided' ammunition ammuni-tion for union men who attacked the order. Will Take Thirty Days to Count Vote CINCINNATI. June 7. Labor lead-era lead-era here expressed (he opinion that It would take at laat thirty days to P re. t (I and rnnvasa the strike vott: authorised au-thorised yeeterdny by eleven railroad brntherhooriM and firaanlsatlona. Approximately Ap-proximately ,200,00t) workers are affected. af-fected. The meet Ins of union heads at which It waa decided to authorise the atrlke vote waa pr-slded over by B M. Jew 41, president of the railroad department, depart-ment, Amertr.in Federation of I-abor. in a formal statement, it was made pluin that no agreement waa reached that concerted action would be taken. This waa Impossible. It was explained, becmiae rroup execotlves hsd not ben advised by their membership whe;iir or not they would be'authorlxt-d to cull a strike. Mr. Jewell, In a atatement, derlared the wae;es of the seven larger tfroiipt f rnil workers, under the new railroad rail-road labor board orders, "do not permit per-mit of a llvlmr wutu-' and are wholly at variance with the "savins; writce" championed by Hccretary of Litboe Ua,-via Ua,-via and J'resident Hardin s;. "The labor board, n federal body. he eai'1, "lias totally d!areKurdrd the ccretary'n attitude, as well aa thr employes' em-ployes' own evidence, nil owing; the amount necK5ary to maintain a railroad rail-road man's family."