Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-01-02 | Page 1 | Secret Orders Sent to 400,000 Railmen

SECRET ORDERS SENT TO 0 i 1 E STRIKE VOTE CAll IN M MUM M Ml l NUT NOTE Heads of Brotherhoods Brotherhood Mysteriously Silent as Message Is l Dispatched to to Railroad Workers IBy t N r i to Ti Tic J ii LEVELAND 0 O. Jan 2 A A c CLEVELAND sealed message was vas dispatched dis dis- patched ed to the members mem mcm- bers pers I of the Big Four brotherhoods brotherhoods brotherhoods brother brother- hoods today according cording to t an announcement announcement an an- al of W. W S. S Stone tone and andY andy y Y v. G. G Lee heads of the Brotherhood Brother Brother- i ho hood d of Locomotive Engineers and nd c Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen respectively cly N Neither ither oE wp d l c UC conten r Th m message ss asage gc was signed b by Lee Stone tOne tAine 4 B Garretson pr president of ot flUie thc OM Or f r t It Railway ay Conductors and W. W tl S C Carter head of ot the Brotherhood Brother Brother- hood ho of or r Railway Firemen and En- En We Wo don't dont expect the Ilie message will remain secret more than twenty four hours Stone Stono Someone no will give gIse it il out Stone Steno said part of lie Iho message re- re Ved jc the situation up to the uto ite and was in Iu tenor similar to clr- clr sent to the men late in Sop Sep I t tern her and again in October Did you ou urge the tho men niell to be b pa- pa Jent and to walt wait a decision of the su su- premo court was v a question put to both Stone and Lee Both refused to answer They declined to state whether or Hot not the they were laying the groundwork ground work for repetition of ot tactics employed last Jast when the Adamson hour eight-hour law Jaw w was s jammed through congress They The again were silent when asked It if the men luen were requested in the message to ta go on record a a as arene renewing renew rene ing In the general strike vote yote a as alJ combating com corn bating the refusal of the railroads to put the Adamson on law into Inlo effect pend jug ins the he high tribunals tribunal's ual's decision