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Show SHOPMEN 60 TO NATJOIfS HEAD JEWELL AND CRAFT HEADS SEND TELEGRAMS TO HARDING OP. ENINQ NEW PHASE Intimate That Unions Are Ready te Support Any Proper Move to ring Adjustment of the Rail Strike Chicago. The striking shopmen carried car-ried their case to the Whlto Hotwa Thursday. The mora marks a new phase of the nation-wide suspension, and gave promise that the next step toward a settlement might be lD the form of action by the president Such action as was takes by the chief executive la the coal strike is suggested by the new move of the .hop crafts leaders. B. M. Jewell, head of the railway employes department of the Americaa Federation of Labor, Thursday sent a telegram to IYesIdent nardlng reply, lag to tho president's proclamation on the strike situation and opening a serw phase of the grievance, of striking railway men. Tho telegram, which was signed also by the six International presidents of the railway shop crafU, declared that tho strikers had walked out because wages fixed by the labor board were In violation of the provisions of the trans-portatioa trans-portatioa act and because of the violation vio-lation of the labor board's position by the railroads. "It appears from your proclamation of July 11 thnt Incomplete Information has been furnished concerning tho present dlsputo between the railroad operators and employes. "NInoty-two railroads hnvo violated the transportation net or doclslons of tho labor board in 104 coses. Theso invited not only contracting out work Inshops, but also wage decreases, Interpretations In-terpretations of rules and right of employes em-ployes to elect their own representatives. representa-tives. When tho Pennsylvania railroad rail-road refused to comply with tho board's ruling. Foderal Judgo I'ngo held that tho board's position on wages or rules was only advisory. Tho railroads havo rcfusod over since passage pas-sage of the transportation act to establish es-tablish national board of adjustment described by tho labor board 'as tho central part of the machinery to docldo disputes botween tho carriers and tholr omployes.' "The railroads have made all negotiations nego-tiations merely formal, thus throwing on the board on Impossible burden of arbitration, Tho board has abolished overtime pay for Sundays nnd holt-days, holt-days, onjoyod for thirty yearn oven on ' unorganized roads. Tho board has os- ; tabllshcd n mto of pay of $800 a year, through tho department of labor f.xsd tho bare cost of living at over $1400 nnd minimum comfort budget at over $2300. "Such Interruptions nnd Interfor-onces Interfor-onces will continue until ngrcoment Is obtain od upon Just and reasonable wages hetwoen the representatives of the skilled employes and railroad ox- ; ccutlves who up to dnto have refused re-fused even to moot with employe' representatives. Wo stand ready to cooperate wholchoartedly with any effort ef-fort to bring about such an agreement." |
