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Show SHE ORDER TO 8E EFFECTIVE ON SEPTEMBER 4 The strike order is brief. It is addressed ad-dressed to eleven members of the four brotherhoods, is signed by the various geenral chairmen, and reads as follows: fol-lows: "Sirs and brothers: This is to advise ad-vise that the vote of the employees in train and engine service on the eight-hour eight-hour day and time and one-half overtime over-time proposition was overwhelmingly in favor of a strike. "Notwithstanding this your representatives repre-sentatives have been unable to effect a satisfactory settlement and a strike under the laws of the respective organizations or-ganizations becomes effective on September Sep-tember 4, 1916, at 7 o'clock a. m. "Impart this information so those lilLCigLU 1,111 uuugiObAUU kllUL lllJ are to promptly obey." ' On a separate sheet the duties of members and officers in the conduct of a strike are set forth. Particular emphasis is placed on conducting the proposed strike as peacefully as possible. pos-sible. Among the duties of members set forth are these: "No man in road service Involved in the strike will perform any ser-) vice after the hour set to strike, unless un-less he has already begun a trip and has actually left the terminal. If the train has left a terminal he will complete com-plete the trip and deliver the engine and train at the end of the run, or tie up point, if tied up under the law, after which he will perform no other service until the close of the strike. Men in other than road service will leave tho service at the appointed time. "So far as your legal right to strike is concerned, there is no difference between a mail train and a freight train. You have identically the same right to refuse to perform service on a mail train as you have to refuse service ser-vice on a freight train. "All men on strike will keep away from the company's property, except such men as are designated certain duties to bo performed by the authority author-ity of the organizations. "Ever' man should understand that the laws of the land must be obeyed. Acts of violence of any nature will not bo tolerated by the organizations." |