Show PROTEST EST FUTILE LEADERS DECLARE MEN BOLT SESSION OF FEDERAL BOARD HEARING WHEN OF SPEAKS make dramatic exit headed by jewell jewel burchmore presents a statement outsiders attend meeting chicago although executive heads of the railroad employees bolted from the wage hearing friday at which outside organizations were allowed to present evidence on behalf of the public lic it failed to stop the presentation of the industrial side of the dispute in which the national industrial traffic fic league asked the united states railroad labor board to throw out all controversy and revert the matter back to the employees and the corporations tah the e railroad men refused to sit bit in the ho hearing rang when J 11 libby attempted to introduce the shippers views frank P walsh attorney for the employees plo presented a protest to tho the labor laboi board la in which he be said the employees ore are not going to be placed in the position of being drawn into another hearing the employees also presented a brief brie to the board in which they protested the bringing in of outside parties not interested in the dispute il the whole controversy at the meeting hinged around whet whether bri the board had the right to io bring in outside witnesses in ruling that the outsiders had a right to intervene not as a party to the dispute but as rn outsider den ben Q hooper chairman of the board said the board holds that these parties cannot intervene here as parties to the dispute because the statute does not authorize it but the board has the power to hear such evidence if it so desires without obligating itself to do so at other hearings bearings the rhe board has in this instance not gone out of Us its way and asked these men to appear here B M jewell head of the railroad shop crafts unions E V F manion head of the telegraphers D nr holt of the signalmen sign almen timothy healy odthe of the firemen and T C cash la in of the am switchmen itch men J C smock of the maintenance of way and J 0 lursen of the train dispatchers dispatch erp formed f r procession that got up ui and walks d out with tho the board still in session after the exodus mr burchmore presented his statement I 1 sir dr burchmore said that railroad labor has been a preferred class receiving wages out of harmony to those paid to comparative employment la in co mercial industries mr burchmore Burch mere also said the labor board should set aside all wage orders ani and decisions now in force and discontinue the present so called hearings if disputes haye hate arisen he said institute hearings properly conducted the case now before the board grew from the request of carriers for authority to reduce wages of railroad labor approximately 10 30 per cent and to include maintenance of way men shop crafts dining car employees agnal men dispatchers and telegraphers in the cut it is common knowledg now lede e mr burchmore said that railroad labor in many insi instances ances has been a preferred class rec recoiling ehing wages out of harmony to those paid to compa rathe vin lilo i arnt in commercial ind it Is neither right nor to the public interest |