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Show uu REPORT ON Is Against Elevated Railroad Company in Boston Boston, July 23. The official report re-port of the investigation of tho Boston Bos-ton elevated railroad strike conducted by the state board of. conciliation and arbitration finds the employes Justified Justi-fied in belieing that many men were discharged because of forming a union. It recommends that the two parties confer with a view of reaching an amicable agreement The evidence presented shows that immediately after the employes formed form-ed a union some 262 me were discharged dis-charged for various offenses, 149 of the number without explanation other than "unsatisfactory" service, "The situation "obviously aroused the temper of the men to a point beyond be-yond control," the report says, and some 1,600 employes voted to strike. Notwithstanding tho company contends con-tends no strike exists, as all the strikers' strik-ers' places have been filled and the cars are now running on schedule, the board declares. "A strike exists so long as those who strike maintain an organization, or by concerted action, continue in the endeavor to secure the objection which they seek to attain." In summing up its conclusions, the board quotes the state law that no person shall coerce or compel another anoth-er not to join or become a member of a labor organization and adds' "It appears by the evidence that many of tho company's cars are beinj operated by men whose conduct does not merit "the approval of the traveling travel-ing public; that there has been neglect, neg-lect, discourtesy and insolence on the part of some of the employes; that conductors have been seen to collect fares without recording them by hc device furnished for that purpose. This latter abuse of the public and the companj has a decided tendency to weaken the high standard of hon-estv hon-estv which Is so essential to our social so-cial Industrial structure." nn |